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September 13th, 2010 at 9:10 am
John Stossel did something like that on 20/20 at least a decade ago. He had a national rifle team member try to win a carnival game where you had to keep all your shots inside a red star. She couldn’t do it because the guns were inaccurate, didn’t shoot to POA, and were full auto with a high enough rate of fire that you couldn’t squeeze off single shots.
September 13th, 2010 at 11:06 am
OMG!! You mean gambling (which carnival games are just with fun colors) is rigged to the dealer!!!! No one would have guessed.
On a side note, NO FREAKING DUH!!! How do you think carnival games survive?
September 13th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
When I lived in Spain the carnivals had a popular game where you used a BB gun to shoot a little paddle and, if you it, it would activate a spigot it was connected to and would fill a small glass with “Poncho” (a sort of brandy popular there).
Spaniards, living in a country where firearms ownership and use is frowned upon, were pretty bad at it so the vendor would typically make pretty good money.
Americans, however, would do pretty well at it…at first.
Even with Americans, the vendor tended to make money because the more you won, the more impaired you got and the worse your shooting got.
By the time the typical 18 year old American Sailor or Marine “won” enough to get a good buzz going, he may as well have bought a bottle.
But, hey, it was fun anyway.