Chapter 1041 Hidden Grand Prize!
Chapter 1041 Hidden Grand Prize!
After casually saying a few words about Qian Huan, Li Nian pushed the second chip into the slot machine and pulled the lever.
"Beep beep beep——"
The slot machine started playing cheerful sounds again, the decorative light bulbs next to it flickered, and the reels rolled rapidly.
Icons flashed by quickly, and Lin Yu looked at the slot machine's roller carelessly, then soon frowned slightly.
"wrong."
Lin Yu said in a low voice.
"What's wrong?"
Li Nian tilted his head and looked at Lin Yu, asking in confusion.
Lin Yu pointed at the still rapidly spinning slot machine wheel and said, "This wheel is made up of five reels. According to the arc of each icon and the total size of the reels, each row of reels should have thirteen icons. Twelve of these icons represent six different fruits: apples, bananas, peaches, oranges, lemons, and pears, two each. One is the classic 'Red Seven'... but the order is wrong."
"This wheel isn't an electronic simulation; it's a real mechanical structure that's rotating. Therefore, the order of the patterns on it should be fixed."
"But... it changes every time it spins - for example, on the first spin, the red seven was next to lemons and pears in the previous spin, and next to oranges and peaches in the previous spin."
As Lin Yu spoke, Li Nian suddenly realized, "That is to say... this mechanical roulette wheel, which shouldn't have had its pattern order change, did for some reason!"
"In other words... there's something fishy about this slot machine!"
Li Nian said, Lin Yu nodded: "Yes."
Hearing Lin Yu's affirmation, Li Nian was a little angry: "Then why bother playing? This bastard dealer has set up such a mechanism, it must be deliberately lowering the winning rate - the expected value of the return of the slot machine is very low, and the probability of winning is very small. If it still does this, how can anyone win?"
Lin Yu was about to say something when the slot machine's reels slowly stopped and then started to ring.
As if it was specifically designed to slap Li Nian in the face...
"Beep, beep, beep, beep!"
A cheerful voice rang out—I actually won the prize!
And they are not the smallest three!
Four apples, a red seven - the grand prize "Leopard", second only to the "Supreme" five-in-a-row, is born!
"Hualalalalalalalalal!"
A large amount of chips fell down, and Li Nian cheered as he heard the pleasant sound.
"Yeah, I cursed it and it didn't dare not hit me!"
Although it seemed that no one could help exchange these chips for actual money, Li Nian still happily raised his hands and shook them back and forth.
After all, the clattering sound and the flashing of the slot machine are really pleasing.
"Great, let's quit while we're ahead—let's go!"
Li Nian stuffed the chips into a small basket and said happily.
Lin Yu held Li Nian's shoulders.
"Let's play some more."
Li Nian was puzzled: "Hey, why is that? Are you trying to catch the Supreme? The probability of that is very low - and this machine has been tampered with. If it gives four fish, it's probably just a bait. It's probably impossible to catch the Supreme!"
Lin Yu shook his head: "No, I'm not going after the Supreme, but I want to take another look at the weirdness of the wheel... Because I think this 'weirdness' should not be the work of the dealer."
After all... the benefits of doing this are too low.
A mechanism that allows the pattern of a mechanical wheel to change at will would definitely be very expensive.
Ordinary people should be able to discover this flaw after playing it a few more times - after all, when they finally stop, they can still see the adjacent "patterns" above and below.
If you pay attention, you will soon find that the order of the pattern has been changed.
However, because Lin Yu now has various benefits and his nerve reaction speed is far beyond that of ordinary people, and his dynamic vision is also very good, he was able to see it after just one look.
What's more, in casinos, many professional cheaters can also do this - those cheaters have been training their eyesight since childhood, and they can remember the order of the entire deck of cards by just shuffling the cards in front of them.
Therefore, there is no point in setting up such a mechanism except to damage one's own reputation.
This trick must not be done by the dealer.
even……
This strange change may have occurred after all the people on the cruise ship disappeared.
Li Nian listened to Lin Yu's words, and after the joy of winning the jackpot, he also understood what Lin Yu meant.
"Oh, so we've stumbled upon a crucial point..."
Li Nian whispered, then took out another chip, put it into the slot machine, and pulled the lever.
"Beep beep beep——"
The sound of the slot machine rang out again and the reels started spinning again.
Afterwards, just as Lin Yu expected, the patterns still appeared randomly and not according to a fixed rule.
He stared at the tiger pattern intently, and soon...
Lin Yu's eyes caught the fleeting scene.
This time it's not just the order that changes.
And it’s not just Lin Yu…
As a "master thief", Li Nian stared at the roulette wheel intently this time and also found something wrong.
"There's one less apple in the second row, one less banana in the third row... There's something wrong with the number of thirteen patterns on these two wheels. They each have an extra 'red seven'."
Li Nian said in a low voice.
"Ah wait, the numbers are back to normal this time..."
Lin Yu stared at the wheel intently: "It seems that what you said is not quite right."
The wheel slowly stopped, three bananas and two oranges - this time it was a "gourd".
"Crash-"
A considerable amount of chips, not particularly special, were spitted out. Lin Yu took one out and patted Li Nian gently.
"Let me do it."
He inserted the chips into the coin slot and then pulled the lever.
The two of them stared at the wheel again.
soon……
The new issue of "quantity" of the pattern that appeared last time has appeared again.
But just as Lin Yu said...
He captured the pattern of several fruits being replaced.
This time he saw it clearly, because the patterns on the five wheels had been replaced.
Just now, when Lin Yu said that Li Nian "was wrong", he didn't mean that the number she saw was wrong - in the last round, there was indeed one less apple in the second row and one less banana in the third row.
But the replacement pattern was not "Red Seven" - although it looked very similar, so much so that Lin Yu was not sure just now.
After watching it again just now, Lin Yu can be sure...
The pattern that flashed over and replaced the fruit was not some "Red Seven".
But...
"Wait, that's not Red Seven, it's a bloody sickle!"
Li Nian also exclaimed.
As Li Nian exclaimed, the slot machine's reels spun faster and faster, and there seemed to be no intention of stopping.
At the same time, the number of blood-stained sickles in the pattern increased, forming an afterimage of a blood line!
Lin Yu let out a breath.
"Ahaha... Looks like we won the hidden prize!"
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