i referred to decks to make it easier for people to understand my question. sorry i made it so simple.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Darrell G <darrellg@...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:38 AM, gamblinggrandma
> <gamblinggrandma@...>wrote:
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> > **
> >
> > When playing a Game King machine where there are 7 different games. Do all
> > the games use just 1 "deck" of cards (or 1 random chip)? or is there a
> > random chip for each game? Basically is there 1 deck of cards for each game
> > or do all the 7 games run off the same random chip. The friend asked
> > because she had been playing deuces and got the deuces, she went off to
> > cash her ticket and she came back and somone was on that machine and got
> > four 2's with the kicker on double double. She just wants to know if it was
> > seperate decks.
> >
>
> You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how this works. There
> are no "decks." There is no "random chip." The CPU in the
> machine's computer generates random numbers (pseudo-random actually, but
> essentially the same in this case) between 1 and 52 (53 for games like
> Joker's Wild). The card assigned to that number is dealt. The random number
> algorithm is typically seeded by the clock, which changes in millisecond
> increments. Unless your friend pressed to deal button in the same
> millisecond, the outcome of the game would not be the same.
>
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