Every round starts clean

The feeling of being due

After twenty quiet spins on Fanfare it is easy to feel that something big must be close. The feeling is old and very human, and it is wrong. Each spin on Pixplume is drawn fresh by your browser's random number source. The reels do not know what happened before, they keep no count, and nothing in the code saves up for later.

The same goes for the needle on Fanwheel. If feather 7 has not come up for fifty sweeps, its chance on the next sweep is still exactly one in nineteen, the same as every other stop.

What the animation is for

The result of every round is settled before a single reel moves. Spinning, sweeping and tumbling only show you that result in a pleasant way. There is no staging of near misses: we never place two eyespots on purpose to make the third feel close. If calm mode is on, the animation is skipped and you see the result straight away.

Streaks are normal

Random results come in clumps. A run of five losing spins, or three lines in a row on Subpixel, happens all the time and means nothing. Over many rounds every plume returns a little less than it takes, and that is the only pattern that holds.

What to do with this

If you notice the thought it has to turn soon, treat it as a signal to stop rather than to keep going. A round limit at the Roost makes that decision for you before the thought arrives. Sheen has no cash value, but the habit of chasing is worth not practising anywhere.