Slot Machine positioning
Thursday, 15. February 2024
Volumes have been written on this item, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" slot machine games are located in a casino are still there – more than sixty years after slot machines were first installed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slot games were put just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be intrigued enough to come into the casino and play. Our frame of mind is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Most of the big name casinos nowadays are huge complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot games in close proximity to any doorways.
Another classic rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced 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 machine 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 slot machine games.
Posted in Slots by Samantha