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Volumes have been written on this subject, and the debates and discourse about where the "hot" slots are installed in a casino are still there – over sixty yrs after slot games were first installed in casinos.

The traditional rule is that the best one armed bandits were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that folks walking by would see actual jackpot winners and be smitten to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our inclination is that this is definitely no longer so.

Just about all of the large casinos these days are mammoth complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games close-by any entrances or exits.

An additional classic rule is that loose slots are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly though, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.

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 the 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!

Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.