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Some countries (most notably the UK) have fundamentally different types of slot machine than elsewhere in the world. Up until very recently, most UK slot machines did not operate using random number generation (RNG). Instead of using RNG, UK slot machines (known more colloquially as ‘fruit machines’) use a “compensator” (i.e., an ‘adaptive logic system) because RNG was considered to be too volatile by commercial enterprises that housed just one or two slot machines and were not guaranteed short-term profits (e.g., cafes, chip shops, etc.). Therefore, software was designed to “compensate” or re-distribute revenue to players in accordance to the payout ratio over 10,000 gambles compared to typically over 100,000 gambles in machines using RNG.

Fruit machines generally use a form of “adaptive logic” wherein coin-in and coin-out is monitored over time and wherein odds/payouts of the fruit machine are proactively adjusted to achieve a target win percentage. Any advantage gained by a player following a hint is to the detriment of future outcomes on the fruit machine. In other words, what the fruit machine “gives” it later “takes away” by altering other parameters of the fruit machine. While adaptive logic fruit machines are permitted in certain foreign jurisdictions such as Great Britain, they are not allowed in the United States. In the United States, the casino game operated with a random number generator must, over all play of the casino game, provide a known player expected return (or house advantage) and the casino game cannot proactively monitor performance and correspondingly adjust play parameters.

Consequently, each spin of a non-UK slot machine is an independent random event, whereas each spin of a UK slot machine reel is not. In essence, UK slot machines pay out their winnings in much shorter cycles than those slot machines using RNG. In the UK, this has led to the phenomenon of ‘skimming’, a potentially skilful activity where slot machine players wait for machines to fill up with other player’s money and then play the machine themselves knowing it is likely to pay out in the short-term.