Slot Machine positioning
Monday, 13. November 2023
Books have been written on this item, and the conflict and interchanges about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still taking place – over sixty years after slot games were 1st placed in the casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the better slot machine games were installed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would be able to see jackpot winners and be stirred to come into the casino … play. Our thought is that this is definitely no longer so.
Practically all of the major casinos presently are titanic complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machine games in close proximity to any entrances or exits.
Another classic rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Nonetheless, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.
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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.
Posted in Slots by Samantha