Notes on the arithmetic and the history of casino games
3 entries filed in this month
19 December 2006
Posted 19 December 2006 at 22:40
A sequence of independent trials has no memory. The persistent belief that it does is old enough, and stubborn enough, to have earned a name of its own.
Posted in Probability | Permalink
12 December 2006
Posted 12 December 2006 at 18:07
A physical reel has a fixed number of stops. A virtual reel has as many as the designer wants, and the mapping between the two is where the payout table is really set.
Posted in Machine games | Permalink
4 December 2006
Posted 4 December 2006 at 13:22
The layout is dense, symmetrical and almost entirely legible once the arrangement of the printed regions is understood as a map of when each wager resolves.
Posted in Table games | Permalink