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Volumes have been written on this item, and the bickering and squabbling about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in the casino are still happening - over 60 years after one armed bandits were first placed in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the best slots were installed just inside the door of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would see real jackpot winners and be stimulated to come inside and play. Our reasoning is that this is no longer true.

Just about all of the large casinos presently are titanic complexes ... you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the 'loose' slots close to any exits.

An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Notably 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 the slot machines 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!

Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.