Gambling cheating devices, from card counting to the famous “Ocean’s 13” dice jig, are a huge part of popular culture. But do they actually exist? The Nevada State Museum has a special exhibit that showcases dozens items that were used to game the system.
Gambling cheating devices can range from a simple tool that helps you swap out cards to a device that hides a hidden camera up your sleeve. These gambling cheating tools have a long-standing history of success despite the fact that casinos have taken measures to prevent their use. The exhibition contains a wide range of gambling cheating devices. This includes the poker phone analyser that was alleged to be real in some articles, as well as many accessories for gambling cheating devices like earpieces or batteries.
Some of the devices are from the era when casino cheaters were still using mechanical slot machines. Some of these devices are light wands, which allowed gamblers manipulate the mechanical reels to get free spins. Many of these are now obsolete, as casinos have shifted to digital machines that use computer chips to determine the results of each spin.
Some old-time cheaters also used piano wires to jam the internal clocks on a machine’s random number generators, allowing them to predict the next number that would be spun. This technique has become virtually impossible, since casinos have implemented RFID technology into their shuffle machines in order to ensure the decks are truly random.