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 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 ...

A Gloucester County resident turned a $2 bet into more than $11,000 at an Atlantic City casino, with the winning amount creating a numerical coincidence. Caroline Garcia of Clayton won $11,515.26 on a ...

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 ...

Shortly after the New Years celebrations comes a big reason for Coast casinos and players to be optimistic in 2026. Thirteen $100,000-plus jackpots hit at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in 2025 and the ...

Beau Rivage paid $1,132,124.08 on Jan. 5, 2026 via a 1¢ Wheel of Fortune. The progressive links multiple Mississippi casinos; each spin increases the jackpot. Beau Rivage recorded 13 jackpots over ...

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 ...

The top five slot machine jackpots won at MGM Springfield in 2025 were all six-figure prizes. On July 16, a $250 bet on the game “All Star Poker 2″ ended in a jackpot prize of $136,000. It was the ...

Slot machine players winning less than $2,000 no longer have to worry about filling out paperwork for the IRS at the casino. The agency confirmed that the minimum threshold to trigger paperwork from ...

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 ...

A MGM Springfield casino player won a jackpot prize off of a slot machine in December. The player bet $8.80 on the game “Coin Trio” to win $13,517 on Dec. 2. Overall, there are over 1,500 slot ...