Volumes have been written on this issue, and the disquiet and interchanges about where the "hot" slots are located in a casino are still rampant – more than sixty yrs after slot machine games were 1st placed in gambling dens.

The standard rule is that the more favourable one armed bandits were installed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that fun seekers walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be attracted to come into the casino and play. Our slant is that this is not so anymore.

Most of the mega casinos presently are super-colossal complexes and it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machine games near to any doorways.

Yet another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. However, we find that this also isn’t a universal rule any more.

What casinos found over the years is that people walking down the busy aisles were frequently on the way to somewhere else. If they played slots at all, they would simply put in their loose change because they happened to be walking by. Win or lose, they would very often not stop to keep playing. And the very last thing a casino wants is for someone to win a jackpot by playing only a few coins and then not stay to put it all back in!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.