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“Today, most wheels have gone digital, run by algorithms programmed to favor the house”
by usefulcat 5y ago
“Today, most wheels have gone digital, run by algorithms programmed to favor the house”
- bluGill 5y agoSo long as the random number generator is unbiased they need no other programming in their favor
- jen729w 5y agoThis stood out for me. Does anyone know what it means? I’ve seen electronic roulette wheels, as in on a computer screen, but that can’t be what this means. And if a tiny ball is bouncing around on a real wheel, which is surely what ‘roulette’ still is to the vast majority of people (because the thing on the TV is no fun at all), how has that “gone digital”? Edit: maybe “most wheels” have gone digital, as in most punters at most places are happy to play the TV. I dare say it’s quicker and simpler than standing round a table waiting for someone to spin a wheel. Sounds absolutely terrible though. Might as well just play what we call ‘the pokies’ here in Australia.
- Nextgrid 5y agoAre you saying that physical wheels are also digital and uses some "magic" (magnets?) to land the ball to a number that's actually been determined by an RNG? Seems unlikely, especially considering at the local casino it seems like it's doing the total opposite - the physical roulette tables have a "debug" screen for the dealer that looks like it's monitoring and digitizing the roulette's output and I'm suspecting it might actually be using the physical table as the RNG for the computerized roulette you see on machines.