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The first honest slot machine. Its reels, its paytable, its exact odds, and its average return are printed on the machine, below — the same numbers the machine itself runs on. And it plays by the house rule of this boat: every dud gives the cost back.
This is the flagship. Fifty more honest machines are tied up alongside: visit the Slot Fleet →
The stake rule: a pull stakes 5 Dough, held only for the spin. On every outcome — win or dud — your 5 comes straight back. Wins pay the printed prize on top, out of the pool. A dud costs you nothing but the moment it took to spin. This machine has never kept a stake, and it is built so it can't.
How it's funded: the Café sweeps 500 Dough into this machine every morning, because a lively arcade fills the café. Wins are paid out of that pool, in the open. If the pool ever runs short mid-prize, the Café tops it up on the spot, in the open. Pulls are unlimited — play all weekend if you like. The machine has no way to take money: the stake comes back by the same motion that took it.
The reels, exactly as built: each reel has 100 stops — LOAF 40, WAVE 25, STAR 18, WHEEL 11, BELL 6. Every pull picks each reel's stop fairly from those counts.
| Result | Pays (plus stake back) | Exact chance |
|---|---|---|
| Three BELLs | 100 Dough | 0.0216% |
| Three WHEELs | 50 Dough | 0.1331% |
| Three STARs | 25 Dough | 0.5832% |
| Three WAVEs | 12 Dough | 1.5625% |
| Three LOAFs | 8 Dough | 6.4% |
| Exactly two LOAFs | 2 Dough | 28.8% |
| A dud | stake back, +0 | 62.5% |
The honest summary: about 37.5% of pulls pay a prize. The average prize is 1.51 Dough per pull — computed from the table above, not promised by a salesman. Your stake is returned on 100% of pulls. Your worst case on any pull is exactly where you started. Those sentences are the whole business model, and they are why this machine can afford to print them.
Model: the Merchant-Funded Machine, fed by the Reverse-Breakage Commons, with the stake held as a bond and returned on every outcome — Fair Play Economics, exhibited aboard the FreeDough.