Slot Machine Location
Friday, 22. October 2021
Books have been stated on this subject, and the disquiet and discourse about where the "hot" slots are placed in a casino are still intense – over sixty years after one armed bandits were first placed in casinos.
The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot games were installed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that people passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come into the casino … play. Our theorem is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Just about all of the big name casinos today are jumbo complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots close-by any entrances or exits.
An additional classic rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Importantly 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 the slots 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!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.
Posted in Slots by Samantha