My Strategy For Cashman Bingo

[pepe]

the likelihood of squares getting filled is absolutely not equal. the same squares that already have coins in them keep getting hit, even when the bingo card is almost totally filled and there are lots of squares resulting in bingo.

[mickeycrimm]

the likelihood of squares getting filled is absolutely not equal. the same squares that already have coins in them keep getting hit, even when the bingo card is almost totally filled and there are lots of squares resulting in bingo.

Yes, thats true. Thats the reason I play for the amount of money on board, not the number of squares filled in.

Squares that have had balls land in them will keep getting balls landing in them and the money keeps building in those squares. The probability is a square already filled in has a much better chance to catch a ball than one that doesn't. But the ball that bingo's the card is going to come out.

It appears to me that the unfilled squares all have an equal chance of being hit. I base my strategy on that.

I don't win on every play but I'm well ahead on this game playing for the maxi and major meters. I've yet to see the grand on the board.

[Don Perignom]

The probability is a square already filled in has a much better chance to catch a ball than one that doesn't.

Stupid question incoming, do you understand how the game accomplishes the uneven probabilities?

Visually it looks like only one reel strip for each of the 5 columns, but it seems to behave more like a 24 reel game with a strip for each position on the grid.

[mickeycrimm]

The probability is a square already filled in has a much better chance to catch a ball than one that doesn't.

Stupid question incoming, do you understand how the game accomplishes the uneven probabilities?

Visually it looks like only one reel strip for each of the 5 columns, but it seems to behave more like a 24 reel game with a strip for each position on the grid.

We know the game is designed for balls to come out on squares that have already been filled. And they always have an amount of money in them. This allows the money to build in each bingo pattern. Exactly how it is accomplished I don't know. There is some kind of conditional probability there.

[Don Perignom]

We know the game is designed for balls to come out on squares that have already been filled. And they always have an amount of money in them. This allows the money to build in each bingo pattern. Exactly how it is accomplished I don't know. There is some kind of conditional probability there.

A further design obfuscation is the "Cashman Antics." Randomly the cartoon character will award or increment a prize.

From design perspective, I guess it's all about disguising that the machines are essentially fancy vacuum cleaners. It doesn't work for me because the game feels rigged and the Cashman character flashes me back to the annoying paperclip from Microsoft Word. Of course I'll play anyway if I think I have an advantage.

[mickeycrimm]

This is my biggest success so far. It was $1.50 bet level. I jumped on this play because the major meter was at $530 and it was on the board. While playing there was another $309 dumped into that particular square by balls continually landing on that square. There was one ball that dumped $300 into the square. So there was about $840 in that square.

When I bingo'd there was more than one unfilled square that filled in and it created five bingo's. It paid 692 units. I was in maybe 50 units when it hit.