When a player wages on 15 lines, losses happen about 68% of the time, with wins about 14% of the time and LDWs about 16%. Watching the video prepared the players by teaching them how to play, what determines a win (earning more than was bet) and what is a loss (earning nothing or less than the bet).

Those who were prepped about LDWs gave more accurate estimations as to how much they won, guessing about 12% of the spins were won. After being shown the videos, all participants played two slot machine games, one with lots of LDWs and one with a few LDWs.Īll players had won about 10% of the spins, but the group of people who watched the unrelated video “drastically overestimated” their wins, thinking they had won 23% of spins, according to the research. The researchers gave one group of participants an educational video on slot machines, which explained the concept of losses disguised as wins, and another group was shown a video unrelated to gambling. See: 10 signs that you may have a gambling problem Everything you need to do in your 20s for a great financial future

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