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Books have been written on this issue, and the conflict and discourse about where the "hot" slot games are located in a casino are still on-going – over sixty years after slot games were first placed in gambling houses.

The classic rule is that the better one armed bandits were placed just inside the entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be baited to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our frame of mind is that this is definitely no longer the case.

Most of the big name casinos presently are oversized complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any of the doors.

An additional standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people 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 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.