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i've got tons of stuff from that thing. once in a bowling alley' date=' from a skill crane i got 5 toxic waste candys, 3 skittle packs, and an IPod Touch O_0[/color']

 

They give out iPod Touches in cranes now o.o...?

 

Damn Canada's cheap.

 

well in this walmart close to my home there's this game where you press this button at the right time to line some squares on top of each other aaaaand, if you to the top you win big prizes, and you can choose which prize you want, which is a PSP with game and memory stick, camera, a WWE the rock action figure, or an IPod Touch

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Played twice.

 

Lost the first time. Second time I won a Pikachu pillow. o_O

 

On another note' date=' you know those stacker games where you can win a Wii and PSP and cell phones and crap? At Dave & Busters, someone spent 200 bucks on that stacker game and finally won a Wii. He made a 50 dollar profit. :D

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stackers is a one in eight hundred chance of getting something. if you lose when you could have won, it resets.

 

i dun think so

 

then you're an idiot >_>

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Yeah' date=' I think I saw one of those somewhere. Is that the machine that gives out iPods and stuff?

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Yes.

 

It is near impossible to win, as it is computer generated.

 

Oh. It's rigged. I see.

 

Does it at least give out crappy prizes if you don't win something good?

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Like I said' date=' some dude spent 200 dollars and won a Wii. It takes a lot of money to win, and your prizes usually won't give you much profit.

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Okay, so would you rather take the Barbie jeychain, or take a chance at getting a Wii?

 

[spoiler=If you chose the Cheap Barbie Keychain, click here.]

[spoiler=Are you sure?]You sir, are an idiot.

 

 

 

 

[spoiler=If you chose the Expensive Wii, click here.]

[spoiler=Are you sure?]Good choice

 

 

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I played the crane twice in my entire life. I tried to play a third time but it didn't worked and I lost my coin. The prizes are bad in those machines' date=' but in my country, you can win things like cellphones and ps2 if you play this game about throwing rings.

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You mean the Ring Toss where you get a certain prize level based on what color bottle the ring lands around? Around here, you can only get stuffed toys, or GIANT stuffed toys. One time, at an amusement park, I played one of the watergun games and won a stuffed Shadow the Hedgehog. I was so happy!

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The amusement park that opens once a year in Toronto has 80% prize games and 20% rides and everything else. They really try to emphasize games where you totally lose all your money at.

 

They always try to clearly explain all the rules and the stuff to you, but it's all a lie. After you get the lowest prize, you have to get like five of those just to get the medium one, and then 10 of those to get the large. By then, you end up wasting like $50+ on a single game, just for an okay-sized animal.

 

The only way to get the huge ones very easily would be to play the extremely hard ones, which you really need skill or luck to win at.

 

And the easy games where you would have a chance at winning the big prizes, the prizes aren't even useful for you.

 

The people who set up the amusement park really has everything thought out from top to bottom for the biggest revenue.

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The amusement park that opens once a year in Toronto has 80% prize games and 20% rides and everything else. They really try to emphasize games where you totally lose all your money at.

 

They always try to clearly explain all the rules and the stuff to you' date=' but it's all a lie. After you get the lowest prize, you have to get like five of those just to get the medium one, and then 10 of those to get the large. By then, you end up wasting like $50+ on a single game, just for an okay-sized animal.

 

The only way to get the huge ones very easily would be to play the extremely hard ones, which you really need skill or luck to win at.

 

And the easy games where you would have a chance at winning the big prizes, the prizes aren't even useful for you.

 

The people who set up the amusement park really has everything thought out from top to bottom for the biggest revenue.

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Those people are major smart-asses.

 

I played the ring toss game when I went to New Jersey (Six Flags). By the time I won a BIG Patrick stuffed animal, I spent $20. I could have bought that at a store for $9.99.

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What's also smart is, they only open it for a couple of days each year, because they know people will get bored with it after a while.

 

It's such a common place to go to, it's like a pasttime. People just go there regardless of how crappy it becomes yearly.

 

It's really sad. I end up wasting lots of money on those games.

 

And the arcade is so small. It's this small tent. Honestly, a tent. With like, DDR, some pinball machines, and more crane machines.

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I remember I played pinball constatly for an hour, without losing, lost one ball (had two left), played for another 15 minutes, lost another ball (one left now), played for about 20 minutes after that and then lost. That was an hour and 35 minutes of constant pinball. I hit 2nd place and won over 2500 tickets.

 

I spent it on candy. :]

 

EDIT: Being serious, it took 5 minutes for all the tickets to come out. o_O

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Lol, the only pinball machines that give tickets would be in Chucky Cheeses. Ew.

 

There IS no prize booth in any amusement park. You just play for "fun."

 

I remember back when I was like, six, that my dad and I didn't use the tickets for anything, because we didn't know English much, and we didn't know what the tickets were for. We'd collect like thousands, then just throw it out in the garbage can. Rofl.

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Lol' date=' the only pinball machines that give tickets would be in Chucky Cheeses. Ew.

 

[b']Meh. I don't like the mouse. I don't remember where it was, but it was like Dave & Busters, but better.[/b]

 

There IS no prize booth in any amusement park. You just play for "fun."

 

Dx

 

I remember back when I was like, six, that my dad and I didn't use the tickets for anything, because we didn't know English much, and we didn't know what the tickets were for. We'd collect like thousands, then just throw it out in the garbage can. Rofl.

 

I lol'd so hard. Did anyone steal your tickets from the garbage? You should have sold 1 ticket for 2 cents. Maybe buy some cookies afterwards.

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I won the jackpot on the Cyclone game (where you stop the light as it spins around) and got like 900 tickets. :3

 

ell o ell

 

I had to do a research assignment on that for extra credit.

 

My science teacher had like 500 Chuck E. Cheeses tokens, and he gave me all of them and told me to experiment on the jackpot (since I have the best reaction time/hand-eye coordination in the school).

 

The rate of jackpot decreases when the jackpot get's higher (since some part of it is computer generated).

 

I won 2 jackpots (50 tickets each) in a row, and failed to win a 450 jackpot blowing 74 tokens on it. I won on the 75th one.

 

I used ALL 500 tokens, had to sit at Chuck E. Cheeses with a clipboard and pen (so many people laughed), and right down results. I was there for quite some time.

 

In the end, I used all my tickets (5500+ / average of 11 tickets per token) and bought a laser pointer and a stuffed animal (dolphin) which I got to keep.

 

The extra credit brought my grade from a 92 to a 97.

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