Regulators require third party auditing and validation before a game is approved in a market. PAR sheets illustrate how the math works out so that casinos can review.

Slot machines are designed purely around mathematical formulas and a random number generator. Players card systems are separate from the software and hardware that govern the slot machine systems itself.

In this day and age, if people are being cheated somehow, the consequences would be dire for all involved.īut one urban legend comes up a lot despite this, and we addressed it briefly in that previous post: That casinos will pay you a different amount when a player’s card is inserted vs. This worry is unwarranted – the games are designed to be fair, and a lot of third parties evaluate this. Some players really worry about this stuff. We also wrote about why we basically always recommend using a player’s club card (short answer: using it gets you additional payback in the form of comps). We’ve written a lot lately about whether slot paybacks can be impacted by: