Who weighs this, and why the answer settles nothing

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One domain, one family of machines

This domain is about offers read against one named family of slot machines, and about nothing else. That narrowness is the point. A site covering every game there is has to treat a slot as a box with a return in it, because it cannot do better across a thousand of them, and the arithmetic it can then do is limited to what the offer says about itself. Holding one machine still and varying the offer makes a different kind of page possible, and that possibility is the whole reason this domain exists.

Nobody here has played anything. There is no account, no deposit and no session behind any figure on any card, and there is no scoring system of this publisher’s own invention anywhere on the domain. What a card contains is arithmetic performed in public on figures somebody else published, plus assumptions named wherever they are spent. The page about method takes one figure through every step of that so a reader can see the join.

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The claims behind the cards, counted

Everything said on this domain about the machine or its maker comes off one sheet, and everything said about the licence comes off another. Both are built the same way: a numbered claim, the thing being claimed, and in square brackets the source and the day it was read. Nothing reaches a card without a claim number behind it, and a reader writing in about a figure gets the number quoted back.

The sheet about the machine carries 120 numbered claims. Of those, 96 rest on a source a reader can open for themselves, 24 of them read straight out of the data the game hands a browser rather than off anybody’s marketing. Another 19 are somebody else’s assertion, recorded because the assertion is itself worth knowing about and marked so that no card can spend one as though it were established. The last 5 are this publisher reasoning about the other two sorts, which is the one kind of claim that rests on nothing but judgement, and they are numbered too so that the judgement can be argued with.

120 numbered claims about the machine, of which 96 rest on a source a reader can open, 19 are somebody else’s assertion marked as such, and 5 are this publisher’s own reasoning

The sheet about the licence carries 75 more, held separately on purpose. A rule is not a figure about a machine and a figure about a machine is not a rule, and a page citing a regulator for a return, or a maker’s own screen for a licence condition, has made the error that separation exists to stop.

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What the sources do not say

The more useful half of a sheet like that is the part recording what could not be found. Thirteen quantities a reader might reasonably expect to be published turn out not to be, and the most awkward of them is the one everybody quotes: there is no published measure of how widely this family’s results spread. The word does not appear on any of the maker’s thirty-six game pages and the data behind the games has no field for it.

Two of the maker’s own documents give one title two different release dates, twelve days apart. Two further titles have a return the maker’s own page puts at one figure and the game’s data at another. None of that is tidied away here. A disagreement between sources about a machine is a finding, and on a domain whose subject is what a machine actually does it is the most interesting finding available.

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Being wrong in public

Arithmetic printed step by step is arithmetic that can be checked, which means errors here are findable by strangers. That is the trade this domain accepts, and it is a good one: a figure nobody can check is worth less than a figure somebody caught.

So a correction is the most welcome letter this publisher gets, and the page about writing in says where it goes and what makes one quick to act on. A card found wrong gets rewritten with the working shown again, rather than having the figure quietly swapped. Terms of use draws the limits around all of it, and How this site is paid accounts for the money.