Not sure if thats true or not, so I'm at least commenting here so someone else can expand on it. each bingo card is unique, and the BGM keeps drawing balls until you get a bingo, at which point you win the prize for that specific card. AFAIK you dont need to play bingo with someone else. Those (IIRC) just required a BGM, which was windows software that actually played bingo.

IDK if they have templates any more, but scoretables were the next generation. In normal gambling a machine is NEVER 'due' to hit, but class II is different, so if a long time went by and nobody hit it, it became financially advantageous for the casino to reset the box so that the players had a fresh set of cards and thus it was harder for them to hit a big one.

Apparently some unscrupulous operators would reset the machine if a jackpot was 'due'. Templates needed a BGC, which was a cash-register sized computer appliance, and it was deprecated because it was insecure. But I never worked on the central determination which actually plays bingo.Īll I know is that they had templates OR scoretables. I wrote paytables for class-II machines for a couple years. Hi, I have seen/read almost every YouTube/article on the web about Type 2 slot machines (the ones we have mostly around California at Indian reservations), but there are two burning questions I'd love an expert to answer that I am sure many of you would be interested in as well! Here they are:ġ) Given these machines require a pool of people to play (as you are essentially playing Bingo against others), how are you supposed to win big if you are gambling at 7:30am and there are only a handful of others playing, potentially even just low rolling? Does that mean your potential jackpots are limited by the few people playing?Ģ) If you are playing high limit on a Type 2 machine, such as $50+ a spin, how do your odds compare to the person sitting next to you betting 75 cents a spin? You are still playing only 1 bingo card (I presume), so how does that work if you get a bingo before anyone else, isn't the 'pot' the same amount regardless of how much you are betting? Is there some sort of multiplication factor by the house or something?ĭamn I should know the answer to this.

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