Slot Machine Hack Device

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There is a company making a device that is supposed to protect the machines from the common cheat methods: 'A firm called iGames Entertainment Inc. Has invented a device called the Protector. Easy to use and transferable from machine to machine, it prevents entry up the coin chute by sensing something going the wrong way, disabling the game. How to Hack a Slot Machine. Although we would never recommend or condone hacking a slot machine. There are a number of methods that are used by unscrupulous gamblers around the world to hack the system and get the machine to pay out without actually winning. This Russian mathematician-turned-hacker has cracked slot machines worldwide. The machines—there is no actual hacking taking place,' he says. Using 'electronic devices and software.

  • An anonymous reader writes 'A man awaiting trial in Pennsylvania was arrested by Federal agents on Jan. 4, and accused of exploiting a software 'glitch' within slot machines in order to win payouts. The exploit may have allowed the man to obtain more than a million dollars from casinos in Pennsylva.
  • Hacking Slot Machines by Reverse-Engineering the Random Number Generators. Interesting story: The venture is built on Alex's talent for reverse engineering the algorithms — known as pseudorandom number generators, or PRNGs — that govern how slot machine games behave.

Predicting a Slot Machine's PRNG

Wired is reporting on a new slot machine hack. A Russian group has reverse-engineered a particular brand of slot machine — from Austrian company Novomatic — and can simulate and predict the pseudo-random number generator.

The cell phones from Pechanga, combined with intelligence from investigations in Missouri and Europe, revealed key details. According to Willy Allison, a Las Vegas­-based casino security consultant who has been tracking the Russian scam for years, the operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine's pattern based on what they know about the model's pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative's phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.

'The normal reaction time for a human is about a quarter of a second, which is why they do that,' says Allison, who is also the founder of the annual World Game Protection Conference. The timed spins are not always successful, but they result in far more payouts than a machine normally awards: Individual scammers typically win more than $10,000 per day. (Allison notes that those operatives try to keep their winnings on each machine to less than $1,000, to avoid arousing suspicion.) A four-person team working multiple casinos can earn upwards of $250,000 in a single week.

The easy solution is to use a random-number generator that accepts local entropy, like Fortuna. But there's probably no way to easily reprogram those old machines.

Posted on February 8, 2017 at 6:48 AM • 31 Comments

Of course gambling is not a good habbit but cheating is the worst! But in history, many people have figured out a good couple of ways how to cheat slots. Below you will find 10 of them. Be aware, none of these methods will work online gaming sites like Slots Heaven!

10 – Cheat Code


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Ronald Dale Harris was a talented software engineer who was working for the Nevada Gaming Commission. His job was to programming computer chips for slot machines. Since he was the programmer, he did left a cheat code like a signature of him. The code was activated by a specific combination of coins something like ‘'5 coins, wait, 2 coin, wait, 6 coins, etc.'' and the machine would automatically pay out. Brilliant!

09 – Light Wand

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Back in the day, when slot machines started using the optical sensor technology, Tommy Glenn Carmichael invented a light wand that could blind these small, magical sensors. It was something like battery-powered mini light attached to a wire.

08 – Fake Coins


As simple as counterfeiting. Using advanced machinery, cheaters pressed counterfeit slot machine coins out of hardened metal dies.

07 – Software Glitch

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Sometimes the cheat comes with the slot machine built in. The most known slot machine with its glitch was ‘'The Game King''. To exploit the glitch, the gambler would put more money into the machine after the 'double up' prompt and then switch back to the original game they were playing for $1.00. Then player would then up their stakes to the highest allotted amount and cash out.

06 –Top-bottom Joint


The top-bottom joint was a trick created by Tommy Carmichael and Ray Ming. The duo created a slider, which was made of a guitar wire and a piece of spring steel. They would snake the payout chute using the top-bottom joint until tripping the switch. Once the switch was tripped, the slot machine would empty out its payload.

05 – Computer Chip Replacement

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Dennis Nikrasch bought a computerized slot machine and played with it in his garage till he found a method to manipulate the computer chip inside to give him a jackpot whenever he wanted. For this purpose, he ordered the standard chips from a real manufacturer. Then he team up to obtain keys on the black market that opened slot machines. After that he would be able to open the machine to replace the chip under three minutes!
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04 – Shaved Coins


As slot machine technology advanced, machine manufacturers changed optic verification sensors to prevent scams. Improved mechanisms use a beam of light to register payment as the coin dropped in. Ironically, this innovation was used against itself to perform a cheat. Shaved coins are registered by the machine but once it gets to its comparitor new mechanism which is the piece of equipment that measures the size and weight of the coin, it will be immediately kicked out because of the coins minute size discrepancy. Of course then you can use it again…

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03 – Piano Wire

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This method dates back to 1982. At the Caesars Boardwalk Regency in Atlantic City, a group of cheaters surrounded a slot machine. Each of them had a job. One of the cheaters dubbed the mechanic, pried open the front and inserted 20-inch piano wires into the slot machine's whirring guts. The group used the piano wires to jam the clock that timed each wheel's rotation. With the help of this method, he was able to manipulate and spin the wheels till he wins.

02 – Monkey Paw


The monkey's paw was one of the early devices used by slot cheats. The mechanism was essentially a guitar or piano string attached to a bent metal rod. Cheater would jam it into the machine through an air vent and fish around for the switch that released the coin hopper.

01 – YO-YO

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The cheater ties a thin cord around a coin and then places it in the slot until it registers a payment. Then yank out the coin and do the whole process over and over again. That simple!



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