Some facts about slot machines

• Slot machines (Fruit machines in British English) are the most popular means of playing in casinos today in the United States.
• Slot machines are also known as one-armed bandits.
• In regular US casinos some seventy percentage of the total earnings come from slot machine operations.
• The slot machine pays off based on patterns of symbols visible on the front of the machine when it stops.
• Other gambling games only supplement what slot machines already heftily provide for.
• The first slot machine was invented in 1887 by Charles Fey of San Francisco, California.
• Slot machines are concentrated mainly in five states were these devices are permitted by the federal government: number one is Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Maryland.
• Near to eighty-five percent of the total slot machine action in the US will be seen by the Quarter and Nickel machines.