finding all the combinations

Currently with some of my slot games, I am checking for win combinations, by doing Every combination possible.
But wondering if there is an easier way.

Let's say I have 3 reels.
each real is 3 images

so
Reel 1 = 1,2,3
Reel 2 = 4,5,6
Reel 3 = 7,8,9

So I am checking for 1,4,7 / 2,4,7 / 3,4,7 / 1,5,7 / 1,5,7 etc etc etc

since I can have win combination if I have 2 of the same symbols on reel 1, 1 on reel 2 and 3 on reel 3.
so I end up with a lot of combo's.. is there an easier way for checking ??

Thanks in advance

Hi Perry try this site it's great for working it out automatically and you can check to get rid of duplications. I don't think there's an easier way, unfortunately to check all combo's you need to check all combo's.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/combinator...alculator.html

Hi, I am completely lost on that site lol. Sorry..

I know I have to check all the combo's, but currently make an event for each one if them.
Like

If 1 and 4 and 7 = 1 then Cherry+1
if 1 and 4 and 8 = 1 then Cherry+1
.....
if 2 and 5 and 9 = 1 then Cherry+1
.....
if 3 and 6 and 9 = 1 then Cherry+1

and repeat all of them for 13 symbols


these are all the combo's

147
157
167
148
158
168
149
159
169
247
257
167
248
258
268
249
259
269
347
357
367
348
358
368
349
359
369

29 of them time 13 = 377 events

was hoping that there would be an easier way..

Perry could you try explaining to a slot-layman XD like me what you are exactly doing,
I find it difficult to grasp

you have three reels (vertical scrolling images?)
that can take up to (9?) values each (each value represent an image= cherry, bell, star..)

you have to check all winning combinations -
these combinations are predetermined?
or "automatically" defined? (like two of a symbol and any other - three of any symbol)


I don't understand this:

Reel 1 = 1,2,3
Reel 2 = 4,5,6
Reel 3 = 7,8,9

this means that each reel contains only those elements,
or that's an example - each reel is currently displaying those values, or...?

You see - I'm a bit confused, hopefully with some clarification some idea could pop out :pacman::pacdot::pacdot: :pacdot:

You could try having all those number combinations as lines in a list object. Choose 1 line at random and force the slot tumblers to the result. Then you know the result of each tumbler and can have a simple set of events for each tumbler's result.

Maybe this is way off but what do you need to do this check for?

Each real has 3 images.
1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9

If I have like 5 lemons. on 1,2,6,8 and 9

then the winning combinations are

1,6,8
1,6,9
2,6,8
2,6,9

If I had bars on 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

then it's
1,4,7
1,5,7
1,6,7
1,4,8
1,5,8
1,6,8
2,4,7
2,5,7
2,6,7
2,4,8
2,5,8
2,6,8
3,4,7
3,5,7
3,6,7
3,4,8
3,5,8
3,6,8

so it add up pretty quickly.
Since there are 13-14 symbols, I need to repeat that for every symbol..

ahh this is 100% (err.. maybe 90%) clear now, thanks
...so you are checking all three rows of the reels,
this was the part I completely overlooked XD
(told you I was a slot layman..)


have you considered working with "vertical" reels?
I'm under the impression you handle reels "horizontally"
this makes checking winning combinations a lot trickier, I think

say you have reels A,B,C
each vertical reel has its own combination of symbols, ranging from 1-14
(or each reel has the same exact symbol set/order of the others, makes no difference)

start of game
say each reel had the same symbolset, a bland succesion: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14
then if needed each reel can get a random offset (say +0,+2,+5),
and now you can see (imagine this flipped by 90 degrees):

A: 1,2,3
B: 3,4,5
C: 6,7,8

note: differently from your representation, each number here represents a different symbol, not a different position!

then you simply need to compare the three rows in three conditions
(x different winning combinations: say 2 or 3 in a rows >>> x 2)
you have about 9-10 events for all winning combinations

you wouldn't need to know all winning combinations beforehand
to determine win situations


unless you need to know the number of winning combinations you can have...
but then you would look into some offline permutation formula like the ones posted by aenever
no need to make this calculation in runtime


..don't know if this makes sense or I've missed something?

I need to know all the winning combinations at the end. I looked at that webpage, but no clue what to look for.

I am lost on your description sorry.
only 9-10 events? I'm up to 200+ for this part.

basicaly it can every every position

if you have like

cherry - bell - grape
bell - cherry - cherry
cherry - cherry - cherry

I need all the Cherry combinations. from left to right
in this example, there are 8 combinations

How would you do that then?

But how do you determine exactly the "winning combinations"?
Like, you win when:

a) you have three same symbols on any single row

b) you have some predetermined combination of same symbols, spanning in more rows
i.e.
same symbol appears twice on row 1, twice on row 2, one or more times in row 3

c) ...other?

I could make an example later this evening with the idea I was talking above
(and then see if could actually work/relief some pain XD)

So I made a quick example, for a simple situation:

Attachment 20731

win event in yellow, here it only checks wether each row has all same symbols
but you get the idea on how can be quick checking for winning situations (only 5-6 events)
then you could add more complex situations in the check_wins loop

As for the general idea on the slot mechanics,
you can customize slot reels in the list object
(simply enter a comma separated list of "symbols" for each of the three rows,
each symbol is linked to the relative animation frame of the slot_symbol object)
you can have any combination of symbols, and any slot reel length
(each reel can be undefinitely long and different from the others, but no less than 4 entries)

up direction of slot_symbol is the "winning line" animation

test events allow you to "cheat" with 1,2,3 keyboard keys

I put the string parser is there to allow more complex tricks with strings
(i.e. you could need its "wildcard searching" function for more advanced checking of win situations)
...but I don't know what you exactly need to do with winning situations X)
(see post above)