Originally Posted by Barney View Post
This is Barney,

I most certainly believe more light is needed to clear heads of those personages who lack the clear thinking in this matter. The original question from the most greatest Mr. Druff was regarding how the winning number was chosen implying it didn't seem to be random regardless of the meter movements and other factors which seemed very unfair to those of less intellegences. As stated by the most greatest Mr. Planck, for these "must hit" slut machine devices, the must hit number is in fact is chosen randomly by the RNG but it is biased because of the weighted distribution of numbers that the RNG has to choose from.
Yes Barney, for those that don't know German it is also good to post it in English. In statistics one might say that X (the value at which the $500 River Dragon progressive is hit) is a non-uniform randomly distributed variable. Most likely a step function similar to:
X< 492 having p(hit)~0
and
X>=492 having p(hit) ~ 1/{(500-x)+1}