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- From: jxr1092@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Jens Rodenberg)
- Subject: Re: Matching
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:38:21 GMT
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- Joe Schwartz writes:
- >> This may be a dumb question, but is matching really random?
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- Jimmy Blair writes:
- >I think this deserves to go in the FAQ list.
- >
- >The match numbers are not truly random. Modern pinballs allow the operator
- [...]
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- I think there's a somewhat modern pin with random matches... the one with
- the roulette wheel (Monte Carlo?). Then again, it does seem to occasionally
- pretend not to notice a matched ball...
-
- Jens
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