[ale] OT: Electronic Voting in GA

[Pete Hardie]

Adrin wrote:
> Okay, You guys have got me looking for a news article.  It was about a game design in
> Vegas.
> He design a card game that could actually stack the deck of cards and make it look like
> you almost beat the game.  All the while the game kept stats and counted the cards.  This
> way they still meet the gaming commissions standards.   Well, He was gunned down in the
> end.

Allegedly the slots are already set up this way - the Gaming Comission requires 
a certain percentage payout, but the minds behind the system have determined 
that people will play more if they 'almost win' a lot.  So the misses are 
programmed to be more of the 'bar-bar-cherry' sort than the 'bar-orange-cherry'
sort.


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