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Keno and Packaged Keno To Go (PKTG) are played using a field of numbers from one to 80, and you may choose up to ten numbers in that field. The Lottery’s computer continuously generates random sets of 20 numbers. Keno Quick Pick This form allows you to quick pick random keno tickets. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. Will this quick pick help you win?
I have Played keno for years always thinking it was trully random and have enjoyed the game yes I've lost more than I won but never my mortgage payment lol so it was only for entertainment and I have enjoyed playing and ever so often hit a nice 7-spot or 8-spot or 8 of 9 etc for a nice payday but now after reading this this seems like it could make sense I hope its not true would take away alotta the fun of keno knowing its not trully random.... Does anyone work for a company like IGT or something and answer this with a def yes or no? Thanks
One of the most technical explanations of how a video keno game works was delivered to me from a reader who claims to have received the information from a former technician of a major slot manufacturer.
Now, I don’t endorse this explanation or suggest that it is a true reflection of how keno machines work. But I thought it might prove interesting, if not worthwhile, to our readers. Here is the explanation, in the reader’s own words:
These machines are designed and programmed to do one thing. Pay the house a certain pre-determined percentage of every dollar gambled, and I have been assured that if the machine has not registered enough intake of money to enable it to pay out a major jackpot, it will not hit no matter how many times or how often you re-set your numbers. These machines have a three phase program written into them.
Phase one … there isn’t enough money to pay a jackpot. This is when the machine will somehow manage to miss your numbers most of the time, hitting small pays just often enough to keep the 'it’s due' type of player feeding it.
Phase two is the real kicker. When the machine has enough money to pay out a jackpot without hurting the house 'hold' it actually switches over to a second program that is truly run via a random number generator. At this point the machine is actually running an honest RNG program, and your numbers may or may not hit depending on how lucky you are. This is when your true odds of hitting a jackpot based on the number of spots picked come into play. The more numbers picked, the longer the odds. (One note here: Almost all these machines except those connected to a progressive jackpot, pay the same maximum jackpot for an 8-, 9- or 10-spot. So why play a 10-spot when an 8-spot pays the same and your odds of hitting one are exponentially better?)
The third phase programmed into the game is the one you hope you’re lucky enough to have running when you put your money in and pick your numbers. Everyone from the Gaming Control Board to the manufacturer will deny this even under the pain of death, but just remember it is a computer and it can be programmed to do anything you want it to do. And it is the only way that a machine manufacturer can guarantee the house that they will make their percentage in profit. When these machines switch over to the third tier of the program, it reads that the machine is holding far in excess of what it is programmed to earn for the house, usually from 15 percent to 18 percent. It’s just way too close to the maximum 25 percent hold mandated by state gaming regulations. Now it doesn’t matter what numbers you pick, they are going to hit!
Interesting stuff, wouldn’t you say? Beyond that, I don’t have a clue whether this is an accurate explanation of a video keno program. And, of course, the game manufacturers aren’t talking.
One of the most technical explanations of how a video keno game works was delivered to me from a reader who claims to have received the information from a former technician of a major slot manufacturer.
Now, I don’t endorse this explanation or suggest that it is a true reflection of how keno machines work. But I thought it might prove interesting, if not worthwhile, to our readers. Here is the explanation, in the reader’s own words:
These machines are designed and programmed to do one thing. Pay the house a certain pre-determined percentage of every dollar gambled, and I have been assured that if the machine has not registered enough intake of money to enable it to pay out a major jackpot, it will not hit no matter how many times or how often you re-set your numbers. These machines have a three phase program written into them.
Phase one … there isn’t enough money to pay a jackpot. This is when the machine will somehow manage to miss your numbers most of the time, hitting small pays just often enough to keep the 'it’s due' type of player feeding it.
Phase two is the real kicker. When the machine has enough money to pay out a jackpot without hurting the house 'hold' it actually switches over to a second program that is truly run via a random number generator. At this point the machine is actually running an honest RNG program, and your numbers may or may not hit depending on how lucky you are. This is when your true odds of hitting a jackpot based on the number of spots picked come into play. The more numbers picked, the longer the odds. (One note here: Almost all these machines except those connected to a progressive jackpot, pay the same maximum jackpot for an 8-, 9- or 10-spot. So why play a 10-spot when an 8-spot pays the same and your odds of hitting one are exponentially better?)
The third phase programmed into the game is the one you hope you’re lucky enough to have running when you put your money in and pick your numbers. Everyone from the Gaming Control Board to the manufacturer will deny this even under the pain of death, but just remember it is a computer and it can be programmed to do anything you want it to do. And it is the only way that a machine manufacturer can guarantee the house that they will make their percentage in profit. When these machines switch over to the third tier of the program, it reads that the machine is holding far in excess of what it is programmed to earn for the house, usually from 15 percent to 18 percent. It’s just way too close to the maximum 25 percent hold mandated by state gaming regulations. Now it doesn’t matter what numbers you pick, they are going to hit!
Interesting stuff, wouldn’t you say? Beyond that, I don’t have a clue whether this is an accurate explanation of a video keno program. And, of course, the game manufacturers aren’t talking.
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nyuhoosier
This is the kind of tripe that surfaces a lot on this board -- conspiracy theories based on second- or third-hand information. It's in casinos' interest to offer fair games because the house edge -- particularly in KENO(!!) -- is already on their side. No need to risk everything by cheating. Plus, they're highly regulated, at least in Nevada.
People who lose again and again need to rationalize it with the conclusion that the game must be fixed. Notice that some guy heard this from some guy. Yeah, it's interesting, but show me the facts.
People who lose again and again need to rationalize it with the conclusion that the game must be fixed. Notice that some guy heard this from some guy. Yeah, it's interesting, but show me the facts.
Wizard
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This is the kind of tripe that surfaces a lot on this board -- conspiracy theories based on second- or third-hand information. It's in casinos' interest to offer fair games because the house edge -- particularly in KENO(!!) -- is already on their side. No need to risk everything by cheating. Plus, they're highly regulated, at least in Nevada.
People who lose again and again need to rationalize it with the conclusion that the game must be fixed. Notice that some guy heard this from some guy. Yeah, it's interesting, but show me the facts.
Keno Random Number Picker
Couldn't have said it better myself.
It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet.
7craps
Yeah, it's interesting, but show me the facts.
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There WAS cheating back then, and they had HE on slots back then,in the mid 80s and 90s, so then they must have cheated because they were greedy. Only reason I could figure.
But no one is greedy any more, from Wall Street to Casinos and Banks. Im sure they all learned their lessons and will be 100% honest til the end.
I say, if someone (a casino anywhere in the world)wants to cheat, they will, regardless of risk being caught. History has shown it HAS happened and I am sure it continues to happen.
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JerryLogan
This is the kind of tripe that surfaces a lot on this board -- conspiracy theories based on second- or third-hand information. It's in casinos' interest to offer fair games because the house edge -- particularly in KENO(!!) -- is already on their side. No need to risk everything by cheating. Plus, they're highly regulated, at least in Nevada.
People who lose again and again need to rationalize it with the conclusion that the game must be fixed. Notice that some guy heard this from some guy. Yeah, it's interesting, but show me the facts.
That's just it. Who's going to show anyone any facts about what's done with video gaming machines? We're in a recession right now and anything's possible if it weren't already. All we have to go by are Gaming Regs, and who's to say if they're complete or if they have multiple interpretations available.
People will lie, companies will cheat, governments will mislead; happens all the time. I believe machine fairness is an individual perception, bounded by hope that everything's on the up & up.
mkl654321
At least one player who is known, and almost certainly, dozens who are not, have managed to exploit the non-randomness of video keno machines to win large sums. The key is that there is no such thing as a true random number generator, without going into the technical details.As to whether the machines can be set to 'cheat'--well, we all know this is trivial to do. It is also completely undetectable. Even if the Gaming Control Board were to descend on a casino, guns drawn, and spirit away all the video keno machines with the purpose of carrying them back to their underground lair and making them confess--well, the act of powering the machines down would destroy any loaded program (in software, not in firmware). And I doubt very much whether any clueless third party could ever decode the program anyway.
So the question is, they can cheat--but would they? Well, first, you have to define 'cheat'. The casinos have already decided, AND THE COURTS AGREE WITH THEM, that fiddling with the outcome of a 'random' slot machine event is NOT cheating. If a reel slot was going to display (blank) 7 7, the program will rearrange the outcome to 7 7 (blank), making the customer's heart skip a beat, rather than the anticlimactic initial blank.
So as long as the eventual preset payback is realized, both practice and law (I'm talking Nevada law here, which is more like 1920's Chicago or 1990's Russia law) say that the casino can rearrange those payouts any way they want. Do keno machines cluster results in the way you mention? We'll never know--but the casinos have shown no compunction against mucking with supposedly randomly generated results. The silver lining is that if they ARE doing that, it doesn't actually change your overall chances one way or the other--it just increases your variance (which can actually be a Godsend on a -EV game, as you might hit something big and be able to get away from the damned machine before it crushes you).
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.---George Bernard Shaw
Wizard
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...the casinos have shown no compunction against mucking with supposedly randomly generated results.
I stand by what I have said many times, that video poker and video keno in Nevada is fair, as if real cards/balls were used. If anyone can provide me evidence that such is not that case, I'll be happy to investigate, and use my bully pulpit to shame any game maker that is not offering an honest and fair game, as well as making a formal complaint to Gaming.
It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet.
scotty81
I have to agree with the Wizard. Having worked in the Legal industry for almost 30 years, I can tell you that without question that if this sort of systematic cheating was being perpetrated on the general public by IGT and the casinos that you would see a class action suit filed so fast it would make your brain hurt.The financial incentives to expose/litigate this sort of cheating far outweigh any advantage either IGT or the casinos would gain from it.
That's not to say that there have not been instances in past where shoddy RNGs and clever programmers have found ways to beat the system. But, these were isolated cases, and I believe it is not systemically integrated into the machines.Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. - Niels Bohr
DorothyGale
People who have no clue how the industry works and have no idea about the levels of oversight and testing protocols are quick to create fantasies to explain their losses. No amount of explanation from experts is going to do; they are just going to believe those who tell them what they want to believe.If it sounds just like religious quackery, it is.
I believed the 'Wizard' was a wizard until I pulled back the curtain. Now I know he passes every statistical test for fairness created by man.
--Dorothy
'Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness!'
How to Find the Best Patterns to Play for Video Keno
Here we are going to discuss how to find the best patterns to play for Video Keno. First we start off by making sure you are aware that that Video Keno machines use an RNG (Random Number Generator) system that turns out the numbers. Basically this means they turn out random numbers with no correlation to previous picks or even the next ones.
Although, just like in any machine there will be various patterns and combinations that may be seen after a watching the machine for some time frame. The video keno algorithm generates a few patterns that can be followed by gamblers.
These are considered advantages to those players that know how to spot them. If a gambler can figure out the manner in which that machine is creating those random numbers, then they will be able to grab an edge on the machine and win easily at video keno.
These combinations and patterns can be discovered only after tediously researching numerous sessions of that particular machine. These are known by professional gamblers as “winning combinations” or “pattern numbers”. Video Keno data indicates that somewhere between 5 and 8 numbers out of the preceding picks are repeated.
Choosing Video Keno Patterns
Choosing patterns in a video keno game is the most interesting action since it calls for a bunch of studying and patience. Pick consecutive numbers when you are playing a video keno machine or wager on “hot” and “cold” numbers.
Keno patterns and combinations typically consist of the manner in which numbers picked during various sessions are repeated. Make sure you are watching for repeating numbers over and over again, since these numbers can provide you with a higher potential for winning. A few gamblers will use their favorite numbers to wager like their ages, date of birth or some other important dates in their lives.
Choosing 4 Card Video Keno Patterns
For choosing 4 card video keno patterns the player will pick between 2 and 10 numbers. Playing 4 cards Video Keno is more effective because your chances of winning become greater. You may “hit” 7 spots on half of your cards which will provide you with a sizeable jackpot. Here is the winning pattern at 4 card Video Keno playing assorted combinations of numbers “decreased” from a larger number. Overlapping numbers on those 4 cards will give you the best chance. Pick numbers within a short sequence such as 20, 21, 22, 23; a total of: 26, 28 and a total of: 36, 37.
Preferred Video Keno Patterns
Video Keno players absolutely love playing with different video keno strategies. Some just like following popular and classic patterns of the game. Either they are wagering by utilizing dates in connection with them or either using statistics and databases, whatever it takes to figure out the order to which the numbers are being generated.
In the long run it is all about having fun and enjoying yourself. Concentrating on winning only is going to have a negative outcome to this game. In order to mix gambling and fun, shut your eyes and wager with numbers picked at random.
Methods and Patterns in Video Keno
In a video keno game there’s just one truth. That is the highest jackpot is won with the maximum number of numbers chosen. In this instance, a maximum of 20 numbers from 6 to 10 selected numbers, any player has the chance to win at video keno because up to 15 numbers can hit the jackpot. All video keno players possess their own numbers that are lucky that they will often play. You will need to gamble on huge amounts if you are looking to earn big rewards. Gambling on lesser values is going to reward you with minor gains. According to data provided the hottest numbers in video keno are 3, 16, 44, 58, 61, 66, 67, 74 and 78.
Video Keno Winning Patterns
The game of video keno is centered on a big measure of unpredictability, because it is due to a RNG (Random Number Generator). Random numbers are difficult to get predicted, particularly when they are the result of a computer choice. A number of gamblers love to watch, determine and then play with those numbers referred to as “hot” numbers while some others choose to make use of complex software systems. These are commonly known as “computer predictors”.
Best Video Keno Patterns to Play
The best approach to winning at Video Keno is by using “hot” numbers. Then again just by using the dates you like or use each time. Also, a more sensible choice is by using a computer algorithm that is able to generate correct calculations and offer a higher possibility of hitting big payouts.
You need to find out which is a better choice for the video keno game. Do not forget to enjoy yourself since Video Keno is supposed to be a game for relaxation. Try using the numbers the next time you play video keno as they are among the best: 3, 16, 44, 58, 61, 66, 67, 74 and 78. As long as you will follow our suggestions of patterns and combinations, your chances of winning will be enhanced.