Ask the Slot Expert: Just one RNG?

We play at Turning Stone in Vernon, New York, an Indian casino. We like to play something called Easy Riches, which has 3 levels of progressive jackpots, depending on your bet amount. My question is, are all of the machines connected to the same RNG computer, so any machine could win any of the 3 jackpots or is the jackpot already programmed into a certain machine, so you would have had to be sitting at that machine to win that jackpot? You have probably had this question a million times :) So to sum it up is there one computer for all 12 machines or individual or both?

Turning Stone has Class II slot machines, so there is only one computer determining the outcomes on the slot machines. Still, any machine could hit any jackpot on any spin. No machine is programmed to be the one to hit the jackpot.

If these were Class III machines, like in Las Vegas, each machine would determine the outcomes of its spins independently.

Best of luck in and out of the casinos,
John

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