Books have been said on this item, and the conflict and disagreement about where the "hot" one armed bandits are located in a casino are still bubbling – over 60 years after slot games were 1st placed in the casinos.

The classic rule is that the superior one armed bandits were installed just inside the entry of the casino; so that fun seekers passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be infatuated enough to come into the casino … play. Our conviction is that this is definitely no longer so.

Practically all of the large casinos presently are huge complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines near to any doorways.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot games are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Nonetheless, 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 slots 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.