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Volumes have been written on this subject, and the disquiet and feuds about where the "hot" slots are installed in a casino are still intense – over 60 yrs after slot machines were first placed in casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the very best slot games were put just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be smitten to come into the casino … play. Our resolution is that this is definitely no longer so.

Nearly all of the big name casinos today are monstrous complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games close-by any doorways.

An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 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 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 philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.