 Authors Stanford Wong and Frank Scoblete have stated that by setting and throwing the dice in a certain way players can alter the odds at the game of craps enough to gain an advantage.In the Japanese game of pachinko, there are numerous purported strategies for winning, the most reliable of which is to use inside information to learn which machines have the highest payout settings.Because of the "Stock", "Renchan", and "tenjō" systems, it is possible to make money by simply playing machines on which someone has just lost a huge amount of money.