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Books have been set forth on this issue, and the contention and disagreement about where the "hot" slots are located in a casino are still ongoing – over sixty yrs after the slots were first installed in the casinos.
The standard rule is that the superior one armed bandits were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be enticed to come into the casino and play. Our sentiment is that this is no longer true.
Just about all of the mega casinos nowadays are monstrous complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machines near to any doorways.
An additional traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Nonetheless, 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slots.
January 5th, 2023
Alden
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