If you played a slot machine but left and a few seconds later another person won on it?

With American slot machines when you hit the start button the exact millisecond you hit the button helps to determine a random number. This random number determines how much (if any) you are going to win.

So as frustrating as it may be to see another player playing 'your' machine and winning, you need to understand that had you played that machine for several more hours you may not have won at all. You would have had to press that start button at the exact moment in time that the other player did to the nearest millisecond to win the same prize sequence.

As to leading players on, in the UK slot machines are very different from American ones and they can lead a player on. In the US the machines are truly random, but they will lead a player on by making losing reel combinations look very close to winners. Like placing jackpot symbols very close to the win line to make you think the machine is about to pay out. But a losing combination on an American machine is no indication of an upcoming win. Each spin is unrelated to the next.

Man... has this happened to me.. Here in Or. there are video poker/slot machines everywhere. Drop a hundie in 'em or so.. Go up to the bar have a brew.. what do ya know.. some 'ol lucky lady pops in 5 buks, hits a royal.. cashes in $600.00+ ya.. what is the message here? If a person has to leave a machine for a spell.. here people lean a chair against the machine which means it's in use. I have been at a casino before on a machine, I had to go.. didn't wanna cash in (I think it changes the machine) I just ask one of the floor persons to watch it for me and they always do.

Good LUK!!

I have a friend who works at a big casino. He said the machines just hit random. I have played on a machine for hours and hit nothing. Two or three months ago I took one spin on a Two dollar machine and hit 1600.00. You just never know!!Try the penny machines I promise you your odds are better leaving the casino with a wad of cash in your pocket. GOOD LUCK

I think the machine reads your fingerprint and knows your are unlucky so you dont win then the next person sits down and if thier prints comes back with a match after a search of the NDLP database then they win. NDLP=national database of lucky people

I've seen that happen a lot & it's happened to me many times as well. The machines are computer chips so it is simply bad timing on the person's part that leaves it. If only we had a crystal ball!!!

slot machines by law are programed to pay off a percentage of winners.its just random luck if your next in line...