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Razzle, or how we gave a carny $1400

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Wow, I think I spent $50 on one game one time. I just bought the price outright though.

Wtf, never knew this shit existed.
 
How cool would it have been to take out a semiautomatic pistol and shoot every one of those marbles? Crazy awesome is exactly what it would have been.
 
I guess I'm still half asleep or missing something about the game. Is there a trick to the layout of the board? Or the carny just grabs the pieces and makes up whatever score he wants before you can actually see where they landed?
 
Merad said:
I guess I'm still half asleep or missing something about the game. Is there a trick to the layout of the board? Or the carny just grabs the pieces and makes up whatever score he wants before you can actually see where they landed?
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I believe it's that one.

and he'll give you tons of points in the beginning to make you feel like you're one toss away from the big prize but cut back until you're wallet is empty and you still feel like you're one toss away from winning all your money back.
 
All carny games are designed to make you lose. I only play the ones where there is a winner every game because you are competing against other players if I'm going to play a midway game.
 
pontifex said:
i thought everyone knew that carny games were rigged?
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some are more rigged than others 😉

I think there's a difference between a couple bottles glued together and a game designed to encourage you to keep on investing more and more money, promising a chance to win it all back on your next bet, but that is by design impossible to win.
 
Merad said:
I guess I'm still half asleep or missing something about the game. Is there a trick to the layout of the board? Or the carny just grabs the pieces and makes up whatever score he wants before you can actually see where they landed?
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It seems like the score conversion chart is set up in a way that it is impossible or near impossible to win. In the beginning the carny cheats in your favor by over counting your score. Then as you get closer he stops cheating for you.
 
Wow. I thought carny games were like $20 max.
And why the hell were you carrying around $1400 cash at Mardi Gras?!?!
 
Never heard of Razzle before, but after growing up with 5 older brothers, I already have a keen distrust of such games and don't even bother with them.

TBH, you bought a funny story about jacking a carny's grift set-up and putting it in the trash. It's an expensive story, but at least your buddy is the one that paid for it 😉
 
I don't know what's worse, that your friend was falling for this shit and wanted to keep spending or that you willingly gave him all that money.
 
I'd die of alcohol poisoning before I drank enough to make me stupid enough to lose more than $10 to a carny.

You two are major fucking morons.
 
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