Volumes have been set forth on this item, and the contention and interchanges about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in a casino are still bubbling – over sixty years after one armed bandits were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.

The classic rule is that the most favorable slots were located just inside the door of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be tempted to come inside and play. Our speculation is that this is definitely no longer true.

Almost all of the large casinos presently are super-colossal complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any doorways.

Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly however, 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 one armed bandits 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot games.