Slot Machine Location
Posted in Slots on 10/15/2025 04:25 am by Kaylee
Books have been written on this issue, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in the casino are still on-going – more than 60 years after the slots were 1st placed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the better slot games were installed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that folks walking by would be able to see jackpot winners … be aroused to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our slant is that this is no longer true.
The great majority of the mega casinos these days are grand complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots close-by any of the doors.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 the slot machines 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.