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| Coin Master | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Moon Active |
| Publisher(s) | Moon Active |
| Platform(s) | iOS, Android |
| Release | 2015 |
| Genre(s) | Casual mobile game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Coin Master is a free, single-player, casual mobile game created by Israeli studio Moon Active.[1] It has had over 100 million downloads (as of February 2021). Coin Master is the top-grossing mobile game in the UK (since February 2019) and Germany (since June 2019).[2]
Gameplay[edit]
The objective of Coin Master is to win coins to upgrade items in order to build up villages.[3][4]
Cheating can be done many ways, including collusion, sleight-of-hand (such as bottom dealing or stacking the deck), or the use of physical objects such as marked cards or holdout devices or using AI and high-tech electromechanical devices like shuffling machines to manipulate the deck. Cheating occurs in both friendly games and casinos. Another very easy way a casino cheats on its players is by endorsing rule sets that are not authorized by any gambling authority. In this case, the casino or the dealer would come up with. Wheel of Fortune is a game from America which was begun by Merv Griffin in 1975. It is a puzzle of rivalry.There are contenders who need to unravel word puzzles. One needs to turn a goliath wheel that will decide their fortune.
Coin Master can be found under the 'Adventure Game' category in the app stores, but uses gambling mechanics. In order to build their own game villages or attack the villages of other players, users must spin to win coins. The number of attempts is limited to seven per hour, but additional attempts and items can be purchased in chests.[5] Also, free spins are gifted by Coin Master through links on their social channels and by subscribing to their email newsletter. There are also numerous websites that collect these links to make it easy for you to collect all the free gift rewards.[6]
Strategy[edit]
A fortune is acquired by spinning and winning, attacking another player's village, or raiding another player’s fortune. A maximum of five shields, as well as the pet Rhino, can be used to defend villages. When a player's village is attacked, the game also allows a 'revenge' so a player can launch a counterattack.<, ref, name='gameplay2' />
Levels[edit]
Players advance to the next village once theirs is built. The levels continuously get more challenging as the player progresses.[7] As of February 2021, Coin Master has 316 levels.[8]
Villages[edit]
Players continue to spin, win and build through more than 300 uniquely themed village adventures, such as LA dreams, Buddhist village, Hell's village, and so on. Other village themes include Magical Forest, Steampunk Land, and Coin Manor.[7][9] Villages have five items, which can include characters, pets, homes, transportation, and items from nature.[4] To complete a village you need coins. Every next village is more expensive than the one before. The first village costs 3.1 million coins. Village 293 costs over 1.6 trillion coins. You can lower the cost of a village by building village items during the Village Mania event.[10]
Card collection[edit]
An extremely popular feature in the game is the ‘Card Collection’.[11] Players make tremendous efforts to collect and trade cards in hopes of completing card setts, which are used to win sought-after rewards such as spins, pet experience, and more. Chests with collectible cards inside them can also be collected using coins.[12]
Cards differ in value, and some of the rarest ones can be very difficult to find. The most precious cards can be shown off to the player's communities.[9]
There are countless online social groups of fans from all over the world that are dedicated purely to card trading.[12]
Characters[edit]
The pig that is placed in all the events and promotion art of the game is the protagonist (tour guide) of Coin Master.
Additionally, there are new characters introduced in every village.[13]
The game also features other mythological characters such as wizards, witches, warriors, and queens.[9]
Pets[edit]
Foxy, Tiger, and Rhino are the 3 pets[14] that are designed to help players collect more coins each in their own unique way. Pets can be raised by obtaining treats for them and raising their XP (experience points) by using XP potions. Foxy gives you extra coins for a raid up to 107% of your raid value. Tiger gives you extra coins for attacks. These extra coins can get up to 410% of the attack value. Rhino protects your village from attacks. This pet protects up to 70% of the attacks on your village. Additionally, pets need to be kept awake with treats. For each treat they stay awake for 4 hours. They can stay awake for longer periods of time with multiple threats.[3]
Events[edit]
At most times there are events in Coin Master. Main events last for 3 to 5 days and can be events in which you get rewards for attacks or raids. These events are called Attack Madness or Raid Madness. In some cases, you get rewards for both attacks and raids together. A new kind of event gives you rewards for getting 3 symbols on a row.
Spins[edit]
The game is based on the slot machine mechanism. In order to play the game, you need spins. Each day you receive up to 70 spins and there are other ways to obtain them like: Inviting Facebook friends to join the game, make gifts to your friends and receive a reward, following Coin Master on social media ( They share free spins and coins every day [15] ), watch in-game video ads, level up your villages.
VIP Status[edit]
VIP is a special status that gives extra benefits to players like extra spins, coins, exclusive events, a private Facebook group, and a permanent player ID. It was rumored that the VIP is given to players who spend a specific amount of money in the game depending on the country they play from but people have accused Moonactive of not being transparent enough with the process.
Commercial[edit]
As of October 2019, Coin Master has grossed over $508 million in gross revenue. 85% of Coin Master's net revenue comes from the U.S, the UK and Germany combined - over $260 million from the United States, a dramatic jump in the UK (since February 2019) resulting in $80 million, and Germany close behind with $52 million. Coin Master surpassed Candy Crush Saga as a top-grossing game and claimed first place on both the App Store and Google Play store in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[16][17]
According to the website OMR, Moon Active earned $US 280 million until October 2019.[18]
In his late night show on German public TV, Jan Böhmermann voiced his opinion that Coin Master is marketed to children and adolescents despite corresponding denials, among other things such as the child-friendly look of the game and advertising from popular influencers like Pietro Lombardi.[19]
Investors[edit]
The company has investors from the tech industry, such as Gigi Levy-Weiss, the former CEO of the Gibraltar-based online casino company 888 Holdings.[20]
Advertisements[edit]
Jennifer Lopez,[21]Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and Scott Disick have featured in advertisements for Coin Master.[22][23][24] Other celebrities who have participated in advertisements for the game are Ben Higgins, Chris Harrison,[25]Rae Sremmurd,[26]Terry Crews, Emily Ratajkowski,[27]Cardi B, and Joan Collins.
Awards[edit]
Coin Master was ranked in the top 20 of the acclaimed Top 50 Developers/Top 50 Mobile Game Makers list from PocketGamer.biz, published October 1, 2019.[28] The game has also received countless mentions in industry publications regarding its continuous stance of 1st place in the weekly/monthly roundup lists of Top Grossing games on both the App Store and Google Play in 2019.[29]
Use in scamming[edit]
Coin Master has been used as part of 'human verification' scams.[citation needed] As part of the scam, a malicious website prompts the user to 'prove they are not a robot' by playing other games, with the end goal of receiving in-game currency.
References[edit]
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- ^'Villages'. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
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- ^Erik (2020-09-25). 'How much does a village in Coin Master cost?'. Coin Master Strategies. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
- ^'Coin Master Has Taken Casual Gaming by Storm: Let's Take a Look at Why It's Been So Successful'. gazettereview.com. TechShout.
- ^ ab'Predicting the Next Social Game Sensation: How Coin Master Took Us By Surprise'. gamenguide.com. January 2, 2020.
- ^'5 Coin Master Tips & Tricks You Need to Know'. heavy.com. Heavy.
- ^Erik (2019-11-08). 'Pets in Coin Master - Ultimate tricks'. Coin Master Strategies. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
- ^Erik (2019-11-08). 'Free Coin Master Spins'. Free Coin Master Spins. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^'These are the iPhone's most popular apps'. The Independent. 3 December 2019.
- ^Forde, Matthew. 'Weekly global mobile games charts: Coin Master overtakes Candy Crush Saga in Great Britain and Ireland for top grossing'. Pocket Gamer.
- ^'Coin Master: So hat die Glücksspiel-App durch Influencer 280 Millionen Dollar umgesetzt'. Daily. July 30, 2019.
- ^'Böhmermann nimmt sich glücksspielähnliche App 'Coin Master' vor - derStandard.de'. Der Standard.
- ^'Indizierungsverfahren zu der App 'Coin Master' eingeleitet'. Mimikama (in German). 16 October 2019.
- ^'Jennifer Lopez Playing Coin Master In A Grocery Store Hits 1 Million Views'. theblast.com. The Blast. February 12, 2020.
- ^'Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Scott Disick Go on the Attack in Coin Master Campaign'. broadwayworld.com. Broadway World. January 17, 2020.
- ^Stone, Natalie (January 23, 2020). 'Watch Kris Jenner Use Her Momager Negotiating Skills with Scott Disick in Funny Coin Master Ad'. people.com. People.
- ^Hara, Ramon (January 20, 2020). 'The Kardashians Are The Latest Celebrities to Endorse This Mobile Game'. gamerant.com. Gamerant.
- ^Bhuvad, Ariba. 'Ben Higgins and Chris Harrison tackle mobile game 'Coin Master''. acceptthisrose.com. FanSided.
- ^'Play Coin Master and trade cards with Slim Jxmmi and Swae!'. Rae Sremmurd. 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^'Coin Master, un éxito millonario para móviles que se publicita con Emily Ratajkowski'. Vandal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^'The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019'. pocketgamer.biz. PocketGamer.
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Gambling Cheats
Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules that is intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players.
Types of cheating[edit]
Cheating can be done many ways, including collusion, sleight-of-hand (such as bottom dealing or stacking the deck), or the use of physical objects such as marked cards or holdout devices or using AI and high-tech electromechanical devices like shuffling machines to manipulate the deck.
Cheating occurs in both friendly games and casinos. Cheats may operate alone, or may operate in teams or small groups.
Following is a list of terms used to categorize specific card cheats:
- card mechanic: A card cheat who specializes in sleight-of-hand and manipulation of cards, a card sharp.
- base dealer: Also called a bottom dealer, or a second dealer, this relies on two related methods that manipulate the dealing of cards.
- deadlock deck: Use of computer and AI to manipulate the game either with manipulation of RNG in online games by hacking or use of electromechanical devices like shuffling machines to manipulate the deck.
- paper player: A card cheat that exploits the use of marked cards.
- hand mucker: A card cheat that specializes in switching cards.
- machine player: A card cheat that uses mechanical holdouts.
- double deal: dealing a player two or more cards during one round of a deal.
Minimal-skill methods[edit]
The easiest and most common types of cheating require no skill of manipulation, but rather merely the nerve. Such methods include shorting the pot, avoiding house fees, and peeking at other players' cards. However, it is very difficult to prove because when confronted, at least the first time, the cheat often calls the cheating an honest mistake.
One minimal-skill method that occurs in non-casino and casino games happens when a player who has folded appoints themselves the tender of the pot, stacking chips, counting them, and delivering them to the winning player. Check-chopping is when such a 'helpful' player palms a chip. Odorless adhesive can be used for this purpose.
Another minimal-skill method is going south (also known as 'ratholing'), where a player covertly removes a portion of their chips from play while remaining in the game, normally in order to preserve the winnings as profit, or prevent a major loss in 'big bet' games.
Skilled methods[edit]
A cheat may hand-muck a card or more than one card. When a cheat is 'mucking' the cheat is cleverly hiding cards in their hand, to later switch their hand for. This may also be done with a confederate.
A skilled cheat can deal the second card, the bottom card, the second from bottom card, and the middle card. The idea is to cull, or to find the cards one needs, place them at the bottom, top, or any other place the cheat wants, then false deal them to oneself or one's confederate.
One sign of false dealing could be when a dealer grips the deck with the index finger in front of it or their pinky and pointing finger on both short sides of the deck while the other fingers support the deck while the cards are being beveled slightly. This is referred to as the 'Mechanic's Grip'. It not only allows better control of the cards, but provides cover by showing the back of the top card, and without moving the hand holding the deck.
A cheat can place certain cards in a position favorable to the card cheat. This is called 'Stacking'. Stacking is more often done than 'False dealing' because it doesn't look suspicious. There are a couple of techniques for 'Stacking' cards. The most famous are: Riffle Stacking and Overhand Stacking. By Riffle Stacking the cheat stacks the card(s) while doing a Riffle shuffle. This form of stacking is the most difficult to master and the most respected under the card sharps and magicians. The Overhand Stacking method takes little practice, and is more likely to be done in a situation with a cheat. The cheat does a (what looks like) normal Overhand Shuffle. But while the cheat is shuffling they keep track of the cards they want to stack, and with a little practice they can manage to put the exact number of cards in between the cards they want to stack to make the next round of dealing favorable for the cheat.
Even if a cheat deals themselves a powerful hand, they may not win much money if every other player has nothing, so often the cheat will stack two hands, with one player receiving a strong hand and the cheater getting an even stronger one. This is called a 'double duke'.
A slight advantage for a cheat can be to know what cards are placed both on the top of the deck as well as the bottom card, so that information can then later be used to bottom deal or second deal themselves that card. The looking at the top or bottom card without the other players knowing or seeing it is called 'Glimpsing' or 'Peeking'. There are a lot of methods for reaching the same goal. A method that is used most is called the 'Shiner'. A Shiner is a reflective object (such as coffee, a lighter, a blade etc.) that is placed under the deck, so when the cheat is looking into the shiner the bottom card is exposed, and every card that is dealt over the shiner can easily be peeked by looking in the shiner.
One method of cheating that involves both great risk and great potential pay-off is the cold deck—so called because it has not been 'warmed up' by play (and thus randomised). Such decks are usually pre-stacked, and are introduced either at the deal, after the real deck has been shuffled, or before the deal, where a card sharp will make a false shuffle using sleight of hand. The latter method may require collusion or a pass if the style of play or house rules call for a cut. The skill lies both in convincing other players that the shuffle is legitimate and in ensuring that other players receive hands that are good enough to entice them into play, but not too good to arouse suspicion.
Marked cards[edit]
Marked cards are printed or altered so that the cheater can know the value of specific cards while only looking at the back. Ways of marking are too numerous to mention, but there are certain broad types. A common way of marking cards involves marks on a round design on the card so as to be read like a clock (an ace is marked at one o'clock, and so on until the king, which is not marked). Shading a card by putting it in the sun or scratching the surface with a razor are ways to mark an already printed deck.
Juice and 'daub' are two kinds of substances that can be used to mark cards in a subtle way so as to avoid detection, when done properly. While a 'juice' deck is premarked and introduced into play by the cheater, 'daub' is applied during play to any deck. Once trained, cheaters can read the cards from across the table.
Decks can be marked while playing using fingernails, poker chips or by bending or crimping the cards in a position that the cheat can read from across the table. The practice of burning the top card, or cards, is to prevent a cheat from knowing that top card and dealing 'seconds' to either give a confederate a card that helps their hand or an opponent a card that hurts theirs.
Collusion[edit]
Collusion is two or more players acting with a secret, common strategy.[1] Some common forms of collusion are: soft play, that is, failing to bet or raise in a situation that would normally merit it, to avoid costing one's partner or friend money; whipsawing, where partners raise and re-raise each other to trap players in between; dumping, where a cheater will deliberately lose to a partner; and signalling, or trading information between partners via signals of some sort, like arranging their chips in a certain manner.
In a poker tournament, when one player is all in and two other players are active in the pot, it is common for the two players with chips left to 'check it down', or check on each round of betting through the end of the hand. Unless they explicitly communicate an agreement about checking it down, this is not collusion.[2]
Online specific[edit]
Online play has allowed for new methods of cheating while other methods based on physical objects such as cards or chips are impossible.
One new form of cheating is the use of bots. These are programs that play instead of a real human. Though their accuracy and their ability to win are disputed, their use normally violates the rules of online cardrooms, so using them is, by definition, cheating.[3][4]
Collusion in online poker is relatively easy and much more difficult to immediately spot if executed well. Cheaters can engage in telephone calls or instant messaging, discussing their cards, since nobody can see them. Sometimes one person may be using two or more computers to play multiple hands at the same table under different aliases (since many broadband plans offer customers multiple IP addresses, this can conveniently and cheaply be done without the likelihood of immediate detection). Such tactics can give cheaters an advantage that is difficult to work against. However, online poker cardrooms keep records of every hand played, and collusion can often be detected by finding any of several detectable patterns (such as folding good hands to a small bet, as it is known that another player has a better hand). Users who frequently sit at the same tables will be flagged by poker rooms and their play will be closely monitored. Often, such users will be warned they have been flagged, in an effort to deter collusion.
Another online method of cheating is 'multiaccounting', where a player will register several accounts to their name (or, perhaps more commonly, to non-poker-playing friends and family members). This might be done to help enable the collusion previously mentioned, or perhaps to simply enable a well-known player to play incognito. However, another common motive for multi-accounting is to facilitate chip dumping and other methods of equity maximization in online tournaments. A major difference between cash games and tournaments is that tournament winnings tend to be much less consistent over the short to medium term. Because tournaments tend to pay prize money only to the top ten percent of entrants on average and tend to pay the majority of prize money to a very small number of top finishers, in tournament play even the best players are prone to relatively long streaks of overall net losses (or even no winnings at all) between sizable wins. Therefore, for high-stakes players who specialize in tournament play, multi-accounting is one possible means to allow a player to play more entries in major tournaments than they would otherwise be able to, potentially multiplying the player's earnings and, just as importantly, making earnings more consistent over a shorter period of time. However, the risk is that a large win by hitherto unknown 'player' may attract scrutiny from the host (and other players), especially if the winner has no known previous poker experience but does have clear ties to a better-known player. In addition, some sites now offer multi-table tournaments where the same player can enter multiple times under their own name, so as to reduce the incentive to multi-account.
Another concern is datamining. This is the systematic collection of hand histories, enough of which can be used to profile opponents using specially designed software. Two or more players may agree to share their individual hand histories amongst themselves; alternatively some websites offer large quantities of previously-played hands (even millions) for a fee. Using software to analyze one's own histories is generally accepted, however acquiring histories of hands in which a player did not participate violates the rules of most cardrooms.
Poker software, like all software, cannot be assumed to be reliable. It is always possible that a person is exploiting the software to win money from victims. The software may even contain a backdoor which allows a person, perhaps an employee, to view cards. Absolute Poker was engaged in such a scandal along with site consultant and notable poker player Russ Hamilton. As of 2007, Ultimate Bet faces a lawsuit with allegations of employees exploiting the software.[5] The user agreement of the two online poker sites owned by Tokwiro Enterprises, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, state they reserve the right to cancel an account if a player plays 'in a professional sense' (and not for personal entertainment only).[6][7] However, this is not a standard prohibition. For example, it is not in the end-user agreements of the three largest online cardrooms: PokerStars, PartyPoker, and Full Tilt Poker.
Angle shooting[edit]
Angle shooting is engaging in actions that may technically be within the scope of the rules of the game, but that are considered unethical or unfair to exploit or take advantage of another player. For example, an angle shooter might motion as if they were folding their hand to induce other players to fold theirs out of turn.
One form of angle shooting which is exclusive to online poker is to abuse the disconnect protection (DP) rules most sites have in place. DP is a rule exclusive to online poker whereby if a player is disconnected from the site in the middle of the hand their hand is played out as if they were all-in without the player actually having to put any more money in the pot. The online poker rooms that offer DP usually have specific tables set aside for this so that all players at the table are aware that the special DP rules will apply.[8]
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How this is used by angle shooters is if a player is in a hand that they are unsure if they have the best cards and don't want to invest any more money to find out. They can unplug their internet connection and then wait for the hand to play itself out. On a DP table the remaining cards in the hand would be dealt and the pot would be awarded to the player with the best cards. If there were multiple opponents in the hand then they would be eligible for a side pot.[citation needed]
Famous poker cheats[edit]
- Soapy Smith (1860-1898)
Cheating in poker in popular culture[edit]
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^T. Hayes, 'Collusion Strategy and Analysis for Texas Hold'em', 2017
- ^Is 'checking it down' in a tournament implicit collusion?Archived May 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^PokerStars.com: End User License Agreement
- ^PartyPoker.com: PartyGaming’s Unfair Advantage PolicyArchived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Online poker cheating blamed on employee, by Mike Brunker, at NBC News; published October 19, 2007; retrieved November 25, 2018
- ^AbsolutePoker: End-User License AgreementArchived October 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Ultimatebet.com: End User License AgreementArchived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Bill Rini: The Definitive Guide to Online Poker Cheating
External links[edit]
- Poker Cheating by Arnold Snyder