A WINNER IS Y-- just kidding.

[escobert]

It wasn't luck based but my friend Maki and I got challenged to play basketball against my younger cousin and his friend for $100. We lost ><

[Cookie]

I played this game at Cineworld in Wales with my mate. We seriously wasted like 300 quid between us trying to get the last square to line up, we didn't succeed, though. There wasn't twelve rounds on this one, though, there were about six or seven, that got progressively harder as we went along.

Funnily enough I was standing in front of that very machine the other day and my friend said "I hate these games. They look good and easy but they're impossible to win so silly people just waste their money on them." xD

Tell your friend that's he's silly. But yeah, it really is a waste of money, considering how much we spent and that we didn't win at all. However, it really beats playing those crappy gun games and generic car-sims they have in there. :p

[Zeldy]

Yeah, I just don't bother with games like that. Anyone who actually believes that they're going to win deserves to waste their money, as seriously, no one will win them.

[The Ceej]

Seriously. When you think about it logically, the game costs between 50¢ and $1 to play. The prizes range between $50 and $500. If the game were possible, it would lose money. Before you try these games, think about that.

A similar type of scam in our mall is a rock-climbing wall. You pay $4 to climb the wall. If you can hit the buzzer at the top of the wall, you win your choice of an X-Box 360 or PS3. But no one ever hits that buzzer because of how the wall is shaped at the top. First, towards the top, you start losing steps. They get smaller and eventually go away entirely. If you can still make it up the top you have to climb around a lip in the wall to make it to the buzzer. The person at the booth claims people win these prizes all the time to which I reply, "Then how are you still in business?" That seems to shut them up.

So, in conclusion, if you ever see a contest or a game that you think you can win, think about the odds versus the payoff. If it doesn't seem like a logical payoff for the odds, then it's probably rigged.

[snacks]

Also man you guys are lucky, the prizes we had in our machines were lame. The only time anyone ever won anything was when they ahem *paid up front* ahem.

We had a machine that had higher level prizes but it was outside of the arcade so I really didn't consider it part of the arcade.

[Heath]

The ITbox is my enemy. :jess:

I really like ITboxes and always go on one if there's one around. Invariably me and my friends end up in the pub on a Thursday and end up playing Tetris on the ITbox trying to put in the dirtiest names possible to get around the censor. I have won £7.50 on Monopoly. And on the Fantasy Football me and my dad have the high score in our local Wetherspoons. We were slow putting in our team and the thing picked Newcastle United randomly. Annoyingly we knocked 2 Everton fans off joint first. So Newcastle (albeit Evertonians in disguise) are top of the Fantasy Football league in Colwyn Bay.

Tell your friend that's he's silly. But yeah, it really is a waste of money, considering how much we spent and that we didn't win at all. However, it really beats playing those crappy gun games and generic car-sims they have in there. :p

I hope you're not mocking that expensive, but great Mario Kart game or that frankly hilarious Asian cop game.

[Cookie]

I'm sure one of the car games was called The Quick and the Furious. The gun one had a revolver. Are you talking about the Cineworld over the road from Tesco? :p