In Missouri, there is a battle going on about the legality of “pre-reveal” machines, as some lawmakers want them outlawed.
Pre-reveal machines look and behave much like slot machines, except for one key difference: the player is told the outcome of the next spin. Sounds glorious, right? Sure, it is certainly better than a regular slot machine, where you don’t at all know what will happen next. If the pre-reveal machine tells you the next hand or game will be a loser, then you don’t have to play. Just don’t deposit money or, if you already did, withdraw it. If there are multiple machines at a location, go check the others to see what their next result will be.
Of course, all that glitters is not gold. You don’t know the results after the next one, so if you want a chance to win and the machine says the next result is a loser, you have to suck it up, take the loss, and hope the next one will be ok.
In 2018, a Florida appeals court ruled that pre-vale machines are, in fact, slot machines, and because they are played outside of casinos, they are illegal.
“While it is true that the user is advised of the outcome of the game at hand ahead of time through the preview feature,” the court said, “the user cannot predict that outcome until it is randomly generated and then displayed by the machine. Nor can the user predict the outcome of Game 2 while playing Game 1.
There is nothing a player can do to change the outcome that is randomly generated by the machine from among millions of potential outcomes,” the court added, differentiating pre-reveal machines from games of skill.” Are the arguments to defend the machines
But, Last Thursday, a state Senate committee heard a bill that would ban the games. Two machine makers have already been found guilty of illegal gambling other prosecutions are pending. Torch Electronics, which is based in Missouri, is fighting tooth and nail to convince people that their games are perfectly legal.
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