We see the couple have honest intentions behind the heist as they are trying to have a family and need to move for a bigger home that they just couldn’t afford otherwise. Together Nick and Edwin come up for a plan to stop their game from being hacked but unknown to them there is a plot to hack the casino and win a lot of money engineered by the wife of the man that delivered and installed their new computer system. We are introduced to Edwin Rutledge, the owner of the Babylon Casino as he reprimands Nick Chen for taking the keno game offline but when Nick explains why, Edwin sees the reason in why it had to be done. The protagonist is an IT genius who is enlisted to upgrade the security for the game of keno and its random number generator but not everything is as it seems. Randomize is the final story in the Forward Collection and centres around Vegas casino games being completely scam proof in the future and it may include a heist aspect to it as well.

Review: I haven’t read anything by Andy Weir before despite having both The Martian and Artemis on my bookshelf and requesting Hail Mary on NetGalley, but I am hoping I like his writing style in this short story. Title: Randomize (Part 6 in the Forward Collection)

Randomize andy weir