According to popular information, in gambling houses around the world, with the help of a cunning trick, they are trying to force visitors to forget about the time. We checked whether this is so.

Here's what John Maeda writes in his book “The laws of simplicity. Design. Technologies. Business. Life": “The Las Vegas casino invented a very cunning trick. There is neither hours nor windows, you cannot even approximately determine what time is. In gambling establishments, the feeling of time disappears completely, time flies unnoticed, it seems that you still have it in bulk. Give them the will, the owners of the casino and with the cellular phones of the clients did something, if only they would completely lose the idea of the time and sat with them until the final devastation of the wallets. ”

Information confirms the famous journalist and writer Vitaly Korotich in book About your trip to the USA. The entertaining fact can be read on resources such as RIA "News", "Arguments and Facts", "Russian newspaper", "Fakrum", Mirfactov, BBC. In the latter case, the third reception is also reported - the casino architecture allegedly resembles the Labyrinth: “You are lost because this is what it is conceived. And then sit on a chair at a machine gun or a table with Black Jack, and Voila-spend money! ”

And although many SourcesIncluding Las Vegas, registered in the capital of the gambling business, give lengthy and rather convincing arguments in favor of the absence of windows and watches in the casino, it is important to understand how much this information corresponds to the realities of the present time. After all, information about such a policy of casino owners is mentioned even in sources 1960s, shortly after the start of the gambling boom in this American city.

That's what about this speaks Director of the Center for the Study of Gambling at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas David Schwartz: “This is a fiction. There are windows in many casinos, so you have the opportunity to look out. Wynn Las Vegas is an example of an institution in which there is a lot of natural light. As for the clock, you will see them in a casino infrequently, but do you know a lot of restaurants, cinemas, museums or churches with clocks on the wall? The same applies to the casino. "

Similar information about the same Las Vegassky casino can be drawn on another site. But the general manager of the institution in the Indiana gives Another argument lack of windows in many such interiors. According to him, there is no “conspiracy theory” - just sunlight would throw glare on cards and playing machines. And each client has their watches (on the hand or on the phone), and the casino owners are well aware of this. In fact, the point is not in early leaving the institution, but in the maximum concentration, the focus of players in the process, another claims source.

Architects also contribute to the debunking the myth of the “bunker” design of the casino. Ethan Nelson, president of the company, which annually designs dozens of casinos, declaresthat today's trends are energy efficiency and a greater variety of impressions from the resort. And gives examples of projects where all this was decided using a variety of windows. The fact that a casino without windows and watches is an outdated design, declared Back in 2005, Steve Winn, who played a key role in the revival of Las Vegas in the 90s.

As for the casino outside the United States, for example, in the UK, such a practice would be generally impossible: since 2007 it has been operating there law, according to which visitors of the casino at any time should be aware of how much time and money they spent.

In addition, the aforementioned David Schwartz also disperses another popular myth with similar motivation: supposedly in a casino through air conditioning systems an increased amount of oxygen is supplied specifically for the players to disappear drowsiness and they continue to play as long as possible. “This is the room in which people smoke. It is impossible to smoke in oxygen saturated with oxygen. This is what will never happen, ”Schwartz assures. Moreover, to serve oxygen in the room forbidden In all states. And sometimes employees of the Las Vegas Commission on Gambling Inspect Local institutions for such violations.

Thus, although in many casinos, judging by the press, it is still not to meet windows or watches, this concept has gone out of fashion and is not applied everywhere. In addition, many experts deny the fact of misleading as a reason for such a practice.