Question of the Day - 28 April 2021

Someone on YouTube said it so it must be true! 

By the way, to the submitter of today’s QOD and anyone else who thought it might be true - if you look in a dictionary for the word gullible you won’t be able to find it as it’s not there. 

Sounds like the QoD is running out of questions. From the previous answers about Las Vegas's leading innovators to this piece of crap is truly like going from the sublime to the ridiculous: It's a dumb question that doesn't deserve an answer, and a long-winded answer that doesn't deserve the time it takes to read it.

"A bit facetious?" If the QoD author was auditioning for a job writing humor, I'd suggest he not give up his day job. This wouldn't even pass muster on April Fool's Day.

Just a lighthearted answer to a question that everyone knows is false.  Everything written here doesn't have to be earth-shattering news. If that is what you need, clearly you are on the wrong site.

Superstition abounds.

I thought the lighthearted answer was rather amusing.  But the real reason that the slots you-tubers crank up the volume has to do with the background music most casinos have running 24/7.  If their recording picks up that music to well, youtube will flag the video for violating a musician's copyright.  Then some other noise must be manually added to drown out the music.  This also messes up the play-by-play chatter the youtubers almost all have going during the session so they crank up the machine volume in an attempt to avoid being flagged.

HILLARIOUS - LOL , LMFAO,  our group tries to sit next to MISS LUCKY , she plays PANDA  and went to school in detroit , far from DEARBORN FORDSON and MR.CURTIS !!!!

If complaining about something that would have been a GREAT April Fools question/answer, is what trips your trigger...might I suggest you start watching curling on TV. 

Well as long as we are telling secrets, here is my way to success at VP.  Sit down at the machine, then stand up.  Spin the chair three times clockwise.  Immediately sit down and insert your money into the machine.  Finally, to guarantee yourself a Royal, you . . . .  - wait, you need to pay me for that next step!

Great lighthearted question and answer.  Keep 'em coming!

Yelling at the dice is obviously the only way to win, as even a brief observation will tell you. That technique, however, is yet to be perfected with keno--yelling at the ball blower doesn't seem to make a difference.

one advantage of a loud machine versus a silent machine is to alert you to a paying combination. You may not recognize a hand of 5 9 6 8 7 being a dealt straight. But if you hear the machine "ding," then you know for sure. Most of us wouldn't make this kind of mistake very often on a silent machine, but it does happen sometimes --- and noise would prevent it.

The payback percentage of a slot is certified by the gaming regulator before the slot is ever released into the wild. Its %% payback is measured across several sessions of 10 million spins. If there is any variability ie +/- 1% the game would never see the light of day. 

Putting this into perspective, at 3secs a spin (quite low), you would need 30million seconds to get to 10m spins. Thats 347 (24hr) days of hitting a button every 3 seconds to reach 10milion spins. No human, team of humans or amazon employee could keep up this pace over a year. This time also does not include bonus games, bathroom breaks, etc. 

At a $1.00 bet with a slot payout of 98% (high) you would lose 9,870,000 over those 10m spins to prove/disprove the theory, and even with a run of good luck you would need a bank roll greater than 3 mil as there would have been some lows in the ebb and flow that gets you to the 98%.

Reality check - You Tube Vidiot likely did not invest time+money to prove the math.

I heard it through the grapevine, i.e. a girl playing slots next to me advised it like this:

"It is built in mechanically. The manufacturer of the machine gives you a slight edge for having the volume turned high because it attracts more players to their machine."  

Yeah...sure.  But thanks anyway for the tip. (Yikes!)

Not enough LOL space for that one.

Candy

Those rumors have been out there for decades. Guts even sell ways to win at slits. Answer is no !!!! Only ? Is # of coins played. On some you get farther pay with one coin but does not improve your chance of winning. It is all luck of draw. RNG means just that it is random. 

Turning on machine decades ago could be turned on. At Mirage I saw slot host take a customer to 5 dollar slot. On 3 play he hit jackpot. I did not think muck about it but I saw same guy with same host and he hit another jackpot promptly. At Emoerial sometimes slits got red hot in back. Tech would apoear open all machines and it stopped. Staff said they turned them off. A slot host confirmed. This was illegal. We had just started coming out in 1991 and at Harrahs we saw man with clipboard checking machine #. We ask what he was doing. He said he was from gaming commission to see if any machines had been moved. He said some casinos would move machine during its hot cycle thus altering payback return. 

Bob dancer I believe the ? Applied to slots not video poker. With booker of course you are right. Anything that increasing volume with hits would draw att  thus helps in most cases. Of course with some people who should not be playing vp they can still make the mistake. They do not however alert for potential hand like inside straights and straight flush. I was in Biloxi and woman was playing one coin on 7-7-7 machine. She got 3 7's  I told her she had to play : coins for jackpot. What did she do ? One coin 3 7's  I gave up. She played one coin result 3-7's   She walked off with 200 hundred quarters and was happy. Machine was not kind to me. Problem is the machine rng recorded 37's 3 times and thus won't deal them for ? Period. How many have told people correct play they hit and you do not get a. Thank you. PRticularly on DB full house where you hold aces and the worse triple DB where you hold the kicker with 3 low cars and 3 aces without kicker. That is lot of money. Never been given 

It is also “true” that if you slap the play button as hard as you can during a slot bonus round you have a better chance of winning.

And.... one time I watched a player on a slot machine praying and then making the sign of the cross several times.  I looked at his screen and it said “welcome Jesus”.  
Turns out that was his name, he was a Hispanic male named Jesus.

This "dumb question" produced plenty of engagement, which is one of our goals, so it's not so dumb. I like Dancer's point. Video poker and slots are both machine gambling, so it applies. And even if it didn't, it's a really good consideration for VP play.

C'mon, man. Engagement is a marketing term. Engagement is not a measure of substance or quality.

The 4/25 QoD was an example of the QoD at its best. Running almost 1000 words, it was a well-written and well-researched overview of two Las Vegas innovators, Kerkorian and the relatively unknown Bob Martin. That QoD garnered only two comments of just two lines each. If one used "engagement" as the benchmark for quality, today's QoD would best the 4/25 QoD by an order of magnitude.

Engagement translates into page views and clicks, and page views and clicks are what keeps you in business, so I do understand where you are coming from. I am just coming from a different place.

So we should do those 1,000-word essays day in and day out, 365, for your edification and enjoyment? All for free? Just curious about how you think that's remotely sustainable.

 I think you almost always do an excellent job of threading the needle producing high quality, accurate, and useful information and entertainment that is also attractive to large numbers of people.

Today's QoD, though, was an outlier in the quality department, imo. That's all I was saying.

Yours is the only Vegas site I go to with regularity for my Vegas fix. If today's QoD were par for the LVA course, I wouldn't have bothered to complain. In fact, I wouldn't even have seen it.

P.S. Thanks for engaging with *me*.