Note that reel 5 is longer than first four reels. Following are the reel strips for Cleopatra. The number of each symbol on each reel is carefully chosen to achieve a desired return. In other words each position on a given reel is equally likely. The way video slots like this one work is to choose a random number for each reel, from 1 to the number of positions in the reel, and map the random number to the corresponding position on the reel.
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