If slot machines are random numbers, how can they be programmed to win a certain number of times? How can something be both random and programmed?

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If slot machines are random numbers, how can they be programmed to win a certain number of times? How can something be both random and programmed?

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Answer 1

They use a bump function. Basically, if you would win more often than the set parameter, it bumps it to a loss outcome. There is also the fact that a majority of “random” functions are not random and can or have already been reversed. They are typically some long function that use a pseudo random seed as the x.