Slot Machines Need Warning Labels 

Now that slot machines are officially up and running in Pennsylvania, it is most assuredly going to be the main topic of conversation for people as well as the news organizations. Already they have covered the amount of people who waited to come in to play the slot machines: roughly 2,000; the number who walked through the door of the slot machines casino over the course of the first day: around 14,000; the number of slot machines the casino has: 1,100; and so on, and so on. 

Any fact or figure you can think of that relates to a slot machine, relates to the way the slot machines came to be in Pennsylvania, or basically talks about slot machines at all – will be a headliner in the next couple of weeks. However, the one thing no one is talking about is what the odds are for winning the slot machines.  

When you go into the Mohegan Sun there is nothing posted that shows what the actual odds of winning the slot machines are. If you ask, no one can tell you, as it hasn’t been posted anywhere – not even where just they can see it. You would think that somewhere, someone, would want to know what the odds are for putting a coin, a dollar, whatever, into a slot machine and it paying them something back. With warning labels everywhere, ingredients listed down to the smallest fraction in food, you would think that slot machine players would want to know what their odds were.  

For a country that doesn’t usually go on blind faith, it seems that the one place you really don’t want to test it out is when playing a slot machine.

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