Carnival Games: You Like To Win?

[timb2]

 

[cowboyec]

I prefer the freak shows....head-less woman...half-man half-snake...worlds smallest horse...etc,etc,etc.

 

[Melonfeud]

I "almost" hit the click ,that is the O.P's link over on YouTube once.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Interesting video. I enjoyed it.

Every year we go to the state fair and I stand there and watch people fork over good money a little stuffed animal. Typically spending $3 for something that costs .25 cents.

 

[Longboysfan]

None. But there was this nickel toss game for beer mugs a long time ago.
$2 in nickels got me 14 glasses.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Raise your hand if you fell for the "6 ft tall man eating chicken" scam.

 

[Melonfeud]

None. But there was this nickel toss game for beer mugs a long time ago.
$2 in nickels got me 14 glasses.

I was hooked on those full auto Thompson air guns ,in where you'd have to remove the entire center 'red star' of the target,,, I never did 'win',,, it seemed like they'd somehow reduce the air pressure on me to where some of the bird shot sized projectiles wouldn't even reach the target, I WALKED AWAY FROM THE COUNTER WITH AMMO STILL REMAINING ONCE THAT HAPPENED

 

[Melonfeud]

Raise your hand if you fell for the "6 ft tall man eating chicken" scam.

Hilarious

 

[CouchCoach]

Raise your hand if you fell for the "6 ft tall man eating chicken" scam.

So what??? He was a rooster and 5'10" so they just fudged on a couple of inches and they said he'd just eaten or he would have chowed down on this farmer standing in the front row.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

I was hooked on those full auto Thompson air guns ,in where you'd have to remove the entire center 'red star' of the target,,, I never did 'win',,, it seemed like they'd somehow reduce the air pressure on me to where some of the bird shot sized projectiles wouldn't even reach the target, I WALKED AWAY FROM THE COUNTER WITH AMMO STILL REMAINING ONCE THAT HAPPENED

I recall around 91 or so they had a game where you were given a paint ball gun and like 50 paintballs for 10 bucks. 10 or 20 meters away they had some poor sap dressed up as Saddam running around, hiding behind obstacles/etc. I must of hit him dozens of times mostly headshots.
As far as the red star games I think it was next near to impossible.

 

[Them]

...We still have a yearly carnival in town...I haven't gone in decades...it's just quit being fun anymore...to many new rules and way to many people.
But I used to like to play the games...I never played to long on any one game..but back then I used to smoke, so I would play the roulette game for cartons of cigarettes....loved it at the time...

 

[Melonfeud]

I recall around 91 or so they had a game where you were given a paint ball gun and like 50 paintballs for 10 bucks. 10 or 20 meters away they had some poor sap dressed up as Saddam running around, hiding behind obstacles/etc. I must of hit him dozens of times mostly headshots.
As far as the red star games I think it was next near to impossible.

Ha,Ha,Ha, I had gotten so close to "winning" it one time, be the spine behind the counter claimed there was the faintest of trace of the red star's pointed tip that was hanging on a little tatter of piece of paper ,a good sneeze would've blown it off, I don't even go to fairs anymore, it'd prolly take a chili peppers concert to get me to go.

 

[Sarge]

I like the beer tents.

 

[Hardline]

I always remember this scene when I see a carnival.

 

[Melonfeud]

I always remember this scene when I see a carnival.

I always think of a sawn-off runt of a kid Curt Russell Getting paid 50cents by Elvis Presley to kick him in the shinbones,,,ya,I know it's an oddly strange correlation in carnival/fair association

 

[SlammedZero]

I had an uncle that was a Carny for awhile. He told me many sly tricks they used designed to help make you lose. It is most definitely a scam, but like the gullible creatures that humans are, everybody still continues to play them.

I like the beer tents.

The one that comes through Boise has a "Beer Garden".