This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Even before the legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead ...

A study from the UNLV Center for Gaming Research found that slot machines in Las Vegas have been tighter for players over the last 20 years. UNLV found the average slot machine hold in Las Vegas has ...

A lucky player wins $21,000 on a 1-cent Lion Link: Wealth of the Dragon slot machine at Red Hawk Casino near Sacramento, California. Christopher Ryan Unsplash A bet on a 1-cent slot machine paid off ...

There’s a theory — maybe call it a conspiracy theory? — that the reason Nevada gaming win is up despite visitation being down is that the state’s slot machines are taking more money than they’re ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The fight over horse racing tracks’ right to legally install slot-machine-like ...

A lucky gambler is starting 2026 with some extra cash after scoring a sizable slot machine jackpot at a Western Washington casino. The slot machine player won more than $86,000 at Snoqualmie Casino ...

An Ocean County woman rang in the new year with a $31,000 win on a slot machine at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City. Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a woman identified by the casino as ...

CloverPit is one of my favorite games of the year so far. Developer Panik Arcade took the formula that helped make Balatro so successful — using various tools to bend the rules of the game to help you ...

Welcome to slot-machine Britain, where election day gives the people a chance to pull the lever on a one-armed bandit. Our bewildering range of outcomes emerges not so much from a belief that the ...

If a slot machine gives skillful players the ability to win every time, is it illegal under Pennsylvania’s Crimes Code and Gaming Law? That was the question the state Supreme Court set out to answer ...

The Amazing Money Machine slot transports you to a Victorian steampunk world where eccentric inventors chase fortune through innovative contraptions. The game begins on a 3×5 grid with 10 paylines, ...

A faint light glows from the back of a medieval tavern, with a crowd of people huddled around it. They’re all watching one of the patrons at a mysterious machine, built perhaps by a madman or a wizard ...