Does seem like it's a violation of 14.040.2b:
"For gaming devices that are representative of live gambling games,
the mathematical probability of a symbol or other element appearing in
a game outcome must be equal to the mathematical probability of that
symbol or element occurring in the live gambling game. For other
gaming devices, the mathematical probability of a symbol appearing in
a position in any game outcome must be constant."
http://gaming.
The live gambling game is the Money Wheel or Big Six Wheel. Does seem
like the average customer would assume the Money Wheel is a random,
non-rigged spin, and they would likewise assume the Wheel of Fortune
is a random, non-rigged spin.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.
>
> I contacted Gaming Control twice on this issue with no
> response from them. Obviously they are aware of it
> and don't have an issue with it.
>
> Bill
> Palms Moderator
>
> --- tralfamidorgooglycr
> <tralfamidorgooglyc
>
> > I saw this game listed on the list from another
> > thread of
> > the "Greatest Gaming Innovations of All Time". He
> > mentioned how the
> > game has persisted (outliving hundreds of other slot
> > games) because
> > it appeals to the slot player's psyche. Well,
> > there's one aspect of
> > the game that is both a signal aspect of that and a
> > salient
> > characteristic of casino marketing:
> >
> > We know that 99% of casino marketing is based on
> > fraud and
> > deception: make the player think he's getting
> > something for nothing;
> > make him value something far more than reality
> > should suggest;
> > misrepresent the true odds against him, the true
> > nature of the games
> > he's playing, etc. etc. Well, WOF does all these
> > things wonderfully,
> > simply via the VISUAL LIE of the bonus wheel. You
> > see, the wheel is
> > divided into a number of "slots" (22, I think) with
> > widely varying
> > payouts on them, from 25 coins to 1000. Which value
> > actually comes
> > up is determined, not by the actual spin of the
> > wheel, but by the
> > RNG of the machine, making the actual "spin" an
> > irrelevant sham. The
> > RNG is biased extremely heavily toward the lower
> > amounts (the two
> > lowest values, 25 and 30, come up half the time).
> >
> > The net effect of this is to make the uninitiated
> > gambler THINK that
> > he has a 1 in 22 chance of hitting the "1000" slot
> > on every spin,
> > when in reality, his chances are about one in six
> > billion (eight
> > billion at Harrah's-owned casinos). Casinos and slot
> > manufacturers
> > might argue that the gambler is wrong to take the
> > visual
> > representation of the Wheel of Fortune at face
> > value, i.e., as an
> > actual spinning wheel. To counter that, I would
> > argue that the
> > presentation of the wheel, the association of the
> > game with the well-
> > known game show, and the sound effect of the
> > "spinning" "wheel" all
> > reinforce that mistaken impression in the gambler's
> > mind, and
> > therefore crosses the line into deliberate
> > misrepresentation of the
> > game's characteristics, aka FRAUD.
> >
> > Of course, I only mention this to agree on WOF's
> > being a "great
> > gaming innovation". As we all know, casino fraud has
> > been perfectly
> > legal in Nevada for decades.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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