Need expert VB6 help

[RayComp]

I'm developing a nifty slot machine game but having trouble in specifying a winning hand on a combition of bar pictures
and I need some expert help.

The game has 3 payout lines across and 3 payout lines down with three images per line.
I store 11 images in imagelist1 and pull them randomly into the 9 pictures on the form.
Pictures are named Pic(0) to Pic(9)

I use the following code to establish a winning row when all three Pic (pictures) are the same type
eg. 3 tripple bars in the same row.

' load random pictures from ImageList1 into the 9 Pic (pictures) on the form
Dim PicAdd As Integer
For PicAdd = 0 To 8 'Starts with Pic(0) and till it reaches Pic(8)
Pic(PicAdd).Picture = ImageList1.ListImages(3).Picture
Next PicAdd

Dim AddWin as integer
If Pic(0).Tag = 1 And Pic(3).Tag = 1 And Pic(6).Tag = 1 Then 'Pic(0).tag = 1 is index 1 in ImageList1
' Pic(0) is first, Pic(3) is second and Pic(6) is third pictue in top row
AddWin = Bet.Caption * 60 ' Bet.caption is amount bet against the row
lblCredits.Caption = lblCredits.Caption + AddWin
Exit Sub
End If

THAT IS EASY as all three pictures (.tag = 1 ) are the same in ImageList1 index 1
problem is that I would like to specify a winning row consisting of a mixture of Tripple, Double and Single bars also.
They are Tripple Bar = index 1, DoubleBar = index 2 and SingleBar = index 3 in ImageList1. As it is selected at random
it can be any combination of the 3 * 9 Pic (pictures) * 6 winning rows total of 162 possibles.

The only I can think of is to code as follows:
If Pic(0).Tag = 1 And Pic(3).Tag = 2 And Pic(6).Tag = 3 Then
AddWin = Bet.Caption * 60
lblCredits.Caption = lblCredits.Caption + AddWin
Exit Sub
End If

THIS means reapeating the above 162 times (changing the index numbers around) to cater for any possibility
eg 112, 113, 121, 122, 123, 221, 211, 213 and on and on
All the suggestions will beappreciated.

Greetings from sunny South Africa

[MartinLiss]

How about somthing like this? Assign a different prime number to each picture. Then create a list of the totals for the different winning combinations. After that since the order wouldn't matter, all you would need to do would be to compare the totals in each row with the winning totals.