> "failing (to work properly) even more than a gun from a fair" Born in the 80s, in the US, I understood that carnival games are rigged in some way, but that a

> "failing (to work properly) even more than a gun from a fair" Born in the 80s, in the US, I understood that carnival games are rigged in some way, but that arcade games were skilled based. Only as an adult did I start to learn that the 'games of skill' in arcades were worse than carnival games. I should have known arcade video games were rigged, given the cheap deaths/impossible to dodge attacks, but there's no reason I should have known the crane and other physical 'skill' based games were, for the reasons already mentioned by the GP comment. Edit: reading further down, it looks like this may have been a recent change with the crane games. That makes me feel better about the arcades I used to frequent as a kid (mall and skating rink). They were crappy, but I know people won stuff from them. But the usage rate was also quite high, given how popular arcades were back then.