Take Cycle

A period when the slot machine is taking in money. It will not give out a jackpot until it takes in a certain quota of coins.

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The take cycle is a slot myths. No such thing as a "take cycle" exists. Also, no such thing as a pay cycle -- the opposite of the take cycle -- exists with a modern slot machine.

Random number generators come up with a number randomly. That is how slot machine wins and losses happen. There is no sensor in a slot machine that tells is that the house edge profit threshold has been hit, and therefore it can begin to pay out coins. Anyone who tells you that happens doesn't know what they're talking about.

The idea of the take cycle and the pay cycle is that a machine has a mode where it only takes coins, and a period where it will inevitably begin to give coins. This is somewhat like the slot machine version of card counting, where your odds of winning go up after a certain number of a certain kind of card is out of the deck. The only problem is, a deck of cards and a slot machine RNG have nothing in common.

Certainly, streaks exists in slot machine playing. Slot machine will have a streak where they don't pay out at all. They might have a streak where payoffs are more common. But the idea that the slot machine only pays off in certain predetermined cycles is entirely in the mind of the player. Hundreds of times per second, the machine randomly generates a number. This number corresponds to reel symbol combinations, some of which win and most of which do not. When a player hits the spin button, the machine takes the last randomly generated number and matches it against its corresponding reel symbol combination. If the combination is a winner, the player wins. But there is no cycle which determines if the machine will generate a winner or not.