FinsRule
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April 17th, 2013 at 5:50:29 AM permalink
I was at Oaklawn in Hot Springs last week, and played a slot machine with "two games" On the left side of the screen was a traditional slot, on the right side was 6 dice. Each pull had the slot machine go and the dice roll. 6 of a kind paid 30,000 pennies (which I hit once!). 5 of a kind paid like 3,000, and so on. Did the dice have to be fair? Another machine used cards on the right side, did they have to be fair?

Edit - I know for video poker the cards do. Not sure if slots are the same, and don't know anything about dice.
CrystalMath
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April 17th, 2013 at 6:40:38 AM permalink
I would expect them to be fair and duing my 6 years at GLI, every virtual die was fair. The following rule is generally interpreted that a die must be evenly weighted:

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4.3.6 Live Game Correlation: Unless otherwise denoted on the payglass, where the gaming device plays a game that is recognizable to be a simulation of a live casino game such as Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, Etc., the same probabilities associated with the live game shall be evident in the simulated game.

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FinsRule
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April 17th, 2013 at 6:52:03 AM permalink
This wasn't a simulation of any of those games. It was just 6 dice rolling with various payouts based on the dice.
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April 17th, 2013 at 7:39:41 AM permalink
By the letter of the rule, a game designer may be able to use unfair dice.

In your case, the game is similar to the live game "Shake a day," in Montana. The rules of Shake a Day allow any number of dice and any predetermined pay combinations.
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April 17th, 2013 at 8:45:55 AM permalink
Quote: FinsRule

This wasn't a simulation of any of those games. It was just 6 dice rolling with various payouts based on the dice.



Were there any notes about it being a, "video lottery" terminal? The payouts for those games are fixed, with the game's "results" set to award the predetermined prize.
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April 17th, 2013 at 9:37:18 AM permalink
I have done a game that has dice symbols on the reels of a slot machine. I was not required to weight those stops identically.
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