But most of the time it has a preset block on what you can win. Here we have an old favorite for many, Line Up Fruit Machine By Barcrest, there are many spin of versions including one with a 25 quid Jackpot in the Rio cab. At times, it will throw a jackpot to keep you interested. It's something we've suspected for ages, but now we've been able to prove it. 'But they won't say why or whose idea it was, just that they were told to write programs which did it. 'We've also had this confirmed to us by former programmers who worked for the fruit machine companies,' Mr Campbell said. The fruit-machine software operated exactly as it would in real life, because to the software there was no difference.Īlthough the 'cheating' does not seem to affect the average 70 per cent payout that fruit-machine makers voluntarily adhere to - but are under no legal obligation to meet - it does mean many people have been thwarted of payouts by predetermined settings rather than luck. They were especially interested in the most galling situation, the failed gamble on a big payout.

They tested the systems in all possible combinations of near-payout and potential gambles. The gamers downloaded the programs from the fruit machines and ran them on emulator programs on their PCs.

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