Books have been said on this matter, and the bickering and ruckus about where the "hot" slot games are located in a casino are still taking place – over sixty yrs after the slots were 1st placed in casinos.

The standard rule is that the more favourable one armed bandits were located just inside the entry of the casino; so that folks going by would see jackpot winners and be titillated to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our stance is that this is definitely no longer so.

Most of the mega casinos today are behemothic complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slots near to any doorways.

Yet another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Importantly however, 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 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!

Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.