Volumes have been written on this topic, and the contention and interchanges about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in the casino are still raging – sixty years after slot machines were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.

The standard rule is that the very best one armed bandits were placed just inside the main door of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would see actual jackpot winners … be stimulated to come inside … play. Our deduction is that this is definitely no longer so.

Just about all of the major casinos these days are giant complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near to any exits.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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 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 slots.