Instead of physically spinning reels, digital random number generators are at work. The spinning reels on display create a false impression about the actual chances of winning. While the reel that the customer sees may have twenty stops, the true, virtual “reel” may have two to ten times as many. Their external design can suggest a one-in-eight-thousand chance of winning, as would have been the case on older machines, but thanks to the microchip designers, the chances are now hundreds or thousands of times lower.
