Technically, it’s pseudo-random, so it’s probably more accurately dubbed a Pseudo-Random Number Generator, or PRNG. Is a slot machine random number generator really true random? So there’s a great question in there, as well as some other things to unpack. Random is not Random that the numbers just did not come out of thin air! Can you explain your feeling about the RNG? John, in a comment on another post But he made a statement that there is no such thing as a Random Number Generator! That someone somewhere had to put those numbers in the RNG the first time. He was caught and I believe he was sent to jail. It was a keno machine and he had a certain code put in the slot machine so all he had to do was punch the code in and the numbers would come up. On one of my other posts regarding slot machines and RNGs, reader John asked the following:Ī long time back there was a person who fixed a slot machine when he was working on it at the factory.