Logic problem that I can't figure out.

[MuddyMole]

Two reasons:
1.) I forgot to change the midpoint of the string from 4 to 12.
2.) More importantly, I assumed the numbers were going to be consecutive, from 1 to 24. This method isn't going to work if you have the same number appearing more than once on the same reel (not without another nested loop anyway).

[Perry]

aww... ok
Well... I can give them each a new number, and link them up elsewhere.
so, the 4 - needs to be 12 - then ?

Changed the 3 strings to

"10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,2 6,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34"
"20,11,10,13,14,30,31,32,33,34,12,25,26,27,28,29,1 5,16,17,18,19,21,22,23,24"
"34,33,32,31,30,29,28,27,26,25,24,23,22,21,20,19,1 8,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10"

I had the value 10 again

and the result was -14
nudge 1 = 10
nudge 2 = 10
nudge 3 = 8

tried removed the "0" as well, but no difference.
Guess I don't know what this line does
"nudge main value" is a set number. i.e. 10, so it's like Abs(12 - ( Find("10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24 ,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34", "," + Right$( "10", 2 ), 0 ) / 3 ) )

Abs(12 - ( Find(string$( "r1" ), "," + Right$("0" + Str$(nudge main value ), 2 ), 0 ) / 3 ) )
or
Abs(12 - ( Find(string$( "r1" ), "," + Right$( Str$(nudge main value ), 2 ), 0 ) / 3 ) )

[MuddyMole]

The way it works, it starts by setting NumToCheck to the highest possible value (which was assumed to be 24), and then works its way down until it finds a number that it can match three of, or it reaches zero.
"12" is just a value that represents the middle of a reel.
Another issue I can see right away, is that you have a comma after each value, when it needs to be before the value - either that or you change another line:
Abs(12 - ( Find(string$( "r1" ), Right$("0" + Str$(nudge main value ), 2 ) + ",", 0 ) / 3 ) )
...otherwise it will be looking for the string "0," instead of "10" etc.

If you don't have any "rules" on what the numbers can be, you might be better off just using brute force, and running 3 nested loops (one for each reel) to check every possible combination of nudge amounts.

[Perry]

Guess I am really puzzled now..

I created an MFA

I set the value to 10

and get all 1's and a 9
(I had changed the abs from 12 to 1 to start from the beginning. and set to <=24 instead of <=8 so it looks at all of them.


Also trying to figure out the brute force part, but no clue how to look for it