Casino Management on Random Number Generator

One of the important and vital aspects of an online casino business is the random number generator that is programmed in the casino's gaming software. The random number generator is an important program responsible for generating random sequence of numbers that have a corresponding result of drawing a card, spinning of reels and throwing of dice.

A reliable random number generator typically functions in a manner that the numbers are evenly distributed, uncorrelated and highly unpredictable. This ensures that each of the number will be hit almost at the same frequency after running a number of times. With an unpredictable generation of numbers, there is no way of knowing what will be the next number to be generated thus making a casino game as random and fair as possible.

Casinos employ the random number generator with a seed that serves as the initial point where the random generation of numbers in sequence begins. Casinos usually calculate several external factors that can affect the seed such as the time of day, the network activity and the setting of their system to ensure that the seed is generated differently in relation to these external factors.

Casinos use statistical distributions in comparing the long sequence of the numbers generated on gaming software. If the test has a result that is outside of the theoretical limits, the casino rejects the usage of the random number generator. Most of the casino's random number generator is tested continually with about three hundred million numbers for verifying its randomness.

Casino tests their games through extensive trials and tests. They try to imitate different possible situations in determining if the rules are obey then add the random number generator and the test continues to run.

About 10 million of bets are tested where the winning combination frequency are within the general expectation including the payouts, the game are then submitted to the quality assurance of the casino for further testing until the system is flawless. The game is then tested with a real gaming server and only then that passing these series of tests that the game will be available to casino players to play.

The testing of the random number generator in the casino games is an on-going procedure that casinos take as a measure of ensuring game fairness and quality assurance on the performance of their random number generators. This also ensures that the algorithm used in the random number generator is fair.

Casinos need to ensure the unbiased and fair performance of their random number generator since it is considered to be the bloodline of the games which gives confidence to their casino players to consider their establishment as a trustworthy gambling establishment.