The last video on the main channel looked into the roulette/slot machine minigame in Super Mario Bros. 3. It has a fuzzing mechanic that prevents you from skillfully winning the game each time (despite how oh so many comments say they have a method for winning the game). The last segment of the roulette turns out to be 100% random with approximately a 25% chance of each of the four icons showing up.
If you haven't seen the video yet, you should watch it since some of this might not make sense.
This article will go into more detail about the exact probabilities of each icon appearing for each of the three segments, as well as showing what the optimal timings are to try to get that sweet 5up every time.
I kinda really love seeing people thoroughly reverse-engineer a little game thing, making charts and graphs and writing a whole essay on it. I just want the world to be able to sit down and study the fun little thing they enjoy
