Cash Out Button

The electronic button pushed on a slot machine when a player wants a tally of the coins they have credited to them in the machine.

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On modern electronic slot machines, a player generally walks up to the machine and places his money in a dollar dispenser. When a bill is placed in the machine, the machine displays the player's credit on its coin meter.

As the slots session continues, coins are added to the coin meter total when the player wins, and every spin takes coins off the coin meter tally. After each spin, the player will have the opportunity to hit the cash out button.

If this happens, the player receives a ticket that looks similar to a receipt from a retail store. This is the cash out ticket. The player takes this ticket to the cashier's cage, and will be reimbursed for the amount of money printed on the ticket.

If a player ends up playing at ten different slot machines on one casino trip, that player will end up hitting a cash out button ten different times (assuming he doesn't bust out or go broke on a machine) and receive ten different cash out tickets.

Most players will wait until time to leave to cash out all these tickets. This can be an advantage to casinos over the old coin-in-the-bucket method, because players might lose cash out tickets or forget to cash them out.

On older slot machines, players would hit the cash out button to collect the coins won on that slots session. On larger jackpots, this would produce the much-anticipated "sound of rain".