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Volumes have been written on this item, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" slot games are placed in the casino are still taking place – more than sixty yrs after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slots were positioned just inside the entrance of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be tempted to come into the casino … play. Our slant is that this is no longer true.

Just about all of the large casinos nowadays are titanic complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close-by any entrances.

Yet another classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Interestingly though, 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 slot games 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 slots.