Industry
Russian Roulette: The Ultimate Game of Chance
In today's world, the game of Russian roulette is generally considered to be a metaphor for taking crazy chances: a “game” in which one is almost guaranteed to eventually face disastrous results. But Russian roulette has a very real history, and has been played on numerous...
February 8, 2014
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How Fruit Machines Got Their Fruit Symbols
When a 25-year-old software engineer from Phoenix called Bill Elfritz put his last $20 into the Megabucks slot machine at the Excalibur casino in Las Vegas, he probably wasn’t aware of the history of the game he was playing. He would have cared even less about...
September 24, 2013
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