Volumes have been said on this item, and the bickering and arguments about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in the casino are still on-going – sixty yrs after the slots were 1st placed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the most favorable slot games were put just inside the entrance of the casino; so that persons walking by would be able to see jackpot winners … be aroused to come into the casino … play. Our inference is that this is no longer the case.
Just about all of the major casinos these days are monstrous complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. However, 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.