Hot Slots

A slot machine which is paying out more than its standard payout percentage.

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Any slot machine paying out a lot can be considered a hot slot machine. Hot slots are also known as loose slots or up slots, though these names might have slightly different connotations. The opposite of hot slots are cold slots, tight slots or down slots.

Some players believe they can find hot slots. They seek to chart the up/down slots cycle. If a slot machine is in a cycle where it is paying out more than its standard payout percentage, this is considered an up slot or hot slot. If a slot machine is in a cycle where it is paying out less than its standard pay out percentage, this is considered a down or cold slot.

The idea is to play a slot machine and chart where it's on a up cycle or down cycle. The problem is the player is losing money while charting the cycle, if the slot machine is on the down cycle. Also, the player is seeing only a small fraction of the number combinations being produced by the random number generator, so the player is unlikely to figure out if he's playing on a hot slot or not.

Find hot slots is game that most slot machine players play, though, if only in their own superstitious ways. Many believe that casinos will place a loose slot within a carousel of tight slots in a prominent place of the casino, trying to lure players to play throughout the entire bank of slot machines. These players will try to find the slot machine with the largest payback percentage. This is effectively finding the hottest slots in the slot machine bank, though "hot slots" generally refers to a slot machine that is paying out more than it should.