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Dominic Reyes, author of the slot-mechanics articles on this site
Writer — slot mechanics and casino technology

What the mechanics do, and where their cost is charged.

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About Dominic

Dominic covers the technical side of this site: cascading symbols and expanding grids, bonus buys, provably fair verification, what artificial intelligence does on a casino platform, and what a headset changes about a game.

His sources are the ones a reader can open too: a game’s information panel and paytable, the provider’s own documentation, and the rules a certified game has to satisfy. Where a published return figure is configurable per operator — which is common — the article says to check it in the game rather than quoting a single number.

What is not here: this site does not attend industry showcases, does not receive pre-release builds and does not run spin tests. Two articles once opened with claims of exactly that; they were removed, because none of it happened.

The claim he refuses most often is that a mechanic raises a game’s return. It cannot: the return figure comes from the certified maths, and a feature that genuinely changed it would need a new certification.

“A mechanic changes how a game feels. The return figure is set somewhere else entirely.”
— Dominic Reyes

How a claim gets into one of Dominic’s articles

A mechanic is described from what the game publishes about itself — the information panel, the paytable, the provider’s documentation — and then checked against the rules certification imposes. Nothing here rests on a test session, and no article claims a sample of spins.

Claims about verification are kept to what the scheme actually establishes. Provably fair proves a result was not altered after the bet was placed; it says nothing about the return figure, the house edge or whether a withdrawal will be paid, and the article states that plainly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Dominic test games before writing about them?

No. He reads what the game publishes about itself and checks it against the rules a certified game has to satisfy. A few thousand spins would not settle the question anyway: that sample is far too small to tell a 94% game from a 96% one.

Can a mechanic raise a game’s RTP?

No, and it is the claim worth refusing first. Cascades, expanding grids and growing multipliers are funded from somewhere else in the paytable — usually a lower base hit frequency or smaller symbol payouts. The return figure is set by the certified maths.

What does provably fair actually prove?

That the result was not changed once your bet was placed, and that the operator did not pick a seed against you. It does not prove the game’s return figure, does not remove the house edge and does not guarantee a payout — those depend on certification and licensing.

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