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The random numbers that determine your outcome for that spin have already been set before you stop the reels. Game designers call it “illusion of skill.” You feel like you have control of the game. Your timing in stopping the reels doesn't really make any difference.

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Does Stopping the Slot Reels Early Change Your Result?

By John Grochowski on Monday March 5, 2012

It’s a pretty common feature on modern video slots that once you push the button to start the reels spinning, you can push it again to stop them. You don’t have to wait for them to stop by themselves.

That prompted a question from a reader who usually plays table games.

“I dabble in slots, usually when my wife and I play together,” he wrote. “Does stopping the reels yourself also stop the random number generator?” I told him that it really makes no difference. Nearly all games remain random when you stop the reels yourself. The random numbers that determine your outcome for that spin have already been set before you stop the reels. Game designers call it “illusion of skill.” You feel like you have control of the game. Your timing in stopping the reels doesn’t really make any difference. There are a couple of games that involve actual skill in IGT’s Reel Edge series, including Blood Life and Triple Red White and Blue. In those, you touch each reel to stop it individually, and you can affect the outcome. In theory, a player who was really, really good at making the reels stop on the right symbols could get an edge. In practice, the reels spin extremely fast and the symbols are mostly a blur. In a Blood Life test, I decided the green 7s stood out enough that I might be able to pick them off. And I did make all three 7s stop in the slot window — but not on the same payline. I have my doubts that anyone could play well enough to get a edge. On other video slots, but you’re going to get whatever the random number generator says you’re going to get, with or without an early stop.

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Let's lay the cards on the table: sometimes you win a game because of pure talent, and other times it’s simply the luck of the draw. People tend to believe that victory in popular card games like Uno (52%) and Go Fish (63%) is based on random chance. But, a betting game like poker is seen as requiring more skill (54%) than luck (28%), according to a YouGov Poll that asked 1,226 adults to decide whether games were more dependent on random chance or intentional decisions. Other classic card games that are considered more skill-based than luck-based include Rummy (38% vs 24%), Bridge (36% vs 9%), and Cribbage (26% vs 11%). More than two in five Americans (44%) consider the casino card game, Blackjack, a game of luck over skill (35%). There is a consensus that several popular board games take skill over luck. Most adults agree that it takes good decision-making to win Chess (82%), Checkers (77%), and Scrabble (76%). A plurality says the same for Connect Four (49% vs 21%), the mystery game Clue (46% vs 23%), Backgammon (45% vs 13%), and Battleship (45% vs 31%). Of course, not all games carry the same amount of notoriety. Cards Against Humanity — a popular party game where players use cards to build sentences — is more well-known among younger Americans (Generation Z and Millennials) than older Americans (Gen X and Baby Boomers). Three in 10 young Americans (31%) say Cards Against Humanity is a game of luck, rather than a game of skill (25%).

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