Story down in the US where a lady was in the casino playing the penny slots. The slot machine clearly stated that the maximum payout was something like $100k. This woman "won" $43m and now is considering legal action. Casino claims that it was obviously a mistake with the VLT and that they are legally covered for things like this. Said woman is insistent at getting the whole kit-n-kaboodle (not bloody likely!).
Granted, I have no idea how many slot machines there are throughout the US, nor do I have any idea as to how many plays there would be in a given day. If I had to guess (I'll see if I can find out), I'd say that there are perhaps 1,000,000 machines. Let's say on average, there are 1,000 plays on a machine, so we'd be looking at possibly there being 1,000,000,000 plays each day.
(Author's note: based on one website, in 2004, there were about 790,000 slot machines in the US, so it would look like my original estimate was at least ballpark accurate!)
Sure - it's reasonable to expect that if there a billion plays per day, there's gonna be a few bugs, but it seems to me that there are way too many stories of this machines issuing inaccurate payouts. I'm curious why - one wouldn't think that calculating the payout would be all that complicated - it would seem like simple equations to me, so I'm curious as to how and why there are so many mistakes.
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