Reporting from Las Vegas — Jeanette White gripped five quarters with dirt-stained fingers and plopped them into a boxy video poker machine named Fortune 1: Clang! Clang! Clangclangclang! The machine’s ...

The noise is unmistakable, though it’s heard at fewer and fewer casinos these days. Clank-clank-clank-clank-clank. That’s the sound of money — metal coins hitting a metal tray — signifying slot or ...

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If ever-improving technology couldn’t make coin slot machines extinct in Las Vegas, a pandemic wasn’t going to either. Because of a nationwide coin shortage brought on by business closures out of ...