Books have been said on this matter, and the bickering and discord about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in a casino are still taking place – over sixty yrs after slot machines were 1st added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.

The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slots were placed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that persons passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be influenced to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our slant is that this is definitely no longer so.

Most of the mega casinos today are monstrous complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slots in close proximity to any of the doors.

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Notably 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.