2026
04.19

Slot Machine positioning

Books have been stated on this item, and the disquiet and discourse about where the "hot" slot machine games are located in the casino are still taking place – over sixty yrs after slots were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.

The standard rule is that the superior one armed bandits were installed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would see jackpot winners and be titillated to come inside … play. Our observation is that this is definitely no longer so.

Most of the major casinos today are herculean complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close-by any of the doors.

Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Nonetheless, we find that this also is not 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 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.

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