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Volumes have been stated on this issue, and the bickering and discord about where the "hot" slot games are installed in a casino are still passionate – more than sixty years after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The traditional rule is that the very best slot games were positioned just inside the door of the casino; so that people passing by would see jackpot winners … be convinced to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our belief is that this is definitely no longer so.

The great majority of the large casinos presently are behemothic complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near any exits.

Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 machine 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 slot games.