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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Carnival Worker Explains How the Games Rip You Off' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-18. Transcript available.

what about so take me into some of the games yeah the games the games are fun
let's get
into something interesting because you had the boost you had the game booth
yeah we had game
boost we own some uh my brother still has i i think he still has one or two you
know they're
definitely not as profitable as they used to be yeah um but yeah i used to have
all kinds of games
i mean a lot of them are illegal now you know maybe i should throw in yeah
maybe i should throw
on some like shades or something if i want to spill secrets like the magician
telling his secrets of
the about the games yeah if you want to put some on no i'm just kidding they
all know who i am now
anyway oh yeah well i yeah because i know there was videos that came out years
ago about like exposing
all the games or whatever really i didn't like that i knew that you pretty much
weren't gonna win
no there's something that you are not gonna win unless they want you to win ah
if you if they got
if you if they got enough money out of you and they got a good tip going there's
a big crowd
or if you're in a wheelchair or something probably if you're maybe it all
depends on how much money
you spent yeah and then like if they got a nice crowd and they want to keep
that and a lot of like
if the crowd is really like they've been there a while and they really want to
see that dude win
and he spent enough money and you know you could get now you can if that dude
wins everybody's gonna
stop playing yeah you know ah so the part of it is some strategy yeah well
there's a lot of strategy to it
what was one of the games that was the toughest game to win probably you think
the toughest to win like
legitimately well so there's some that just can't be one okay so okay so take
me like what is one of
them so like the cover the red spot you guys ever have that one cover the red
so there would be yeah
there'd be a big red circle yeah and you get like little discs this yeah yeah
could not be one legally
oh there would be one that could be one on that the guy would show you how to
do it on because that
one can be one okay and he would always use that one and i've worked that game
before so i know how
it's done and then you have all the other ones the circles are just slightly
too big to be completely
covered oh so the base circle yep there it is ah cover the spot okay so you see
how that one's
covered all down there with the five discs it's completely covered so sometimes
those red circles are
just slightly too big where it's mathematically impossible to cover it all dude
the saddest part
i just remembered this so my brother he was like the older brother you know and
like
he like was trying to win a game and i knew we didn't have much money you know
so like
he kept trying to win and like i knew it started to be a little bit thing like
i gotta win this my
brother's watching me you know and he didn't win and i could feel it just break
his heart oh man
i have seen god so many hearts broken really oh my god i've seen families
broken up
oh i mean they've spent their whole mortgage lost the car like lost everything
yeah he traded their kid
in like trying to win i swear to god sometimes you'll see the kids still up
there as a prize now you can win
them yeah you guys want you guys want this uh stuffed bunny with a cleft palate
or you want ricky
nah nah we got a real life ginger over here we gotta feed ricky man we'll take
that we'll take that
that uh hoppy the cleft palate fucking easter hero over there it's if you got a
gambler playing you know
somebody that gambles they know what's up no you they lose everything because
they want to win they
want to win and then you tell them hey man if you win not only will you get the
prize but i'll give
you your all your money back oh every dollar you spent i will give it back if
you win want to play again
fuck
and now a gambler is not going to say no and how hard is it have you ever had
to run somebody up like
that i kind of have by the time those games are kind of i mean i ran the red
spot and stuff but i
was a kid i was still a teenager then so i wasn't a real agent you know but
were there some people they
were good at oh man they were so good like when i was a real little kid and
before i was working i would
you know sit on the counters with some of these guys you know when yeah they're
not busy and i'd sit
down and hang out but then all of a sudden the mark would walk by and they'd
get them and i would just
see them run them up because like you pay your bills right yeah like you pay
your bills every month
yeah yeah so just don't worry about paying me up front just keep playing i'll
tell you how much you
owe at the end oh yeah what do you think is the most you ever seen somebody
lose on a carnival game
i've seen somebody lose a car like legit how to give up their car no yeah who
who's gonna enforce it
though well because they're a gamble they're game like most most gamblers pay
that like if they have
it they'll pay their debt so they'll go get they'll go get the title and sign
it over right there to
keep playing really yeah i mean you ever been to a casino like some of these
guys some of these
gamblers are like they lose everything amazed at somebody yeah i have friends
that are real successful
and i'm amazed at some of these guys that just go gamble all the time i've seen
i've seen people
like eventually like they'll go home and they're like i just got hustled and
then they'll end up
like going to the cops or something like that and coming down the next day and
you got to squash the
beef and make everybody happy like i've seen that happen new hampshire man
loses life savings on
carnival game let's look at it i probably saw that epsom new hampshire from the
salts i guess
um henry gribom says he lost his life savings 2 600 dollars damn life savings
carnival game and
all he has to show for it is a stuffed banana with dreadlocks wow you got the
dreaded one though
dude blm bro that's all i'm saying dude yeah at least you got the dreaded
banana dude
wow yeah it's it was crazy those games are illegal now though up there well it
says you're expecting
the kids to win a few things let the kids have a good time say grip home i just
didn't turn it just
didn't turn out that way grip home says he attended a manchester carnival run
by new hampshire
based fiesta shows you mentioned them that's us it is that's who we worked for
wow and wanted to
win an xbox connect at a game called tubs of fun yeah i'll tell you about that
one where contestants
toss balls into a tub ain't happening it isn't what is it so the bushel basket
that's what it is the
tubs of fun so they take those remember those old apple bushel baskets oh yes i
remember they'd be
up on the side yeah like at an angle kind of yeah at an angle kind and you got
to toss the softball
in there yes yes there it is oh there's some guys getting it right here yeah
yeah so there's a there's a trick to it do you see how he's doing it you got to
give it a spin and
it's got to hit right on the edge i see so it'll like it'll kind of like use
its momentum to stay
in there and they're using plastic ones too they i don't know right go back to
the bushel baskets can
you find the bushel baskets they might be just referencing the one we're
talking about it's the same
game but the bush those were made of the wooden ones like the original apple
bushel baskets yeah so
take me through it so what the problem they were at like an angle right yeah it's
that same same same
thing as that with the plastic ones except they were wooden um they just won't
stay in there the softball
is so light and bouncy and the back of those baskets are just so bouncy as well
that they would just
bounce out you can't get the ball to stay in there it's it's really i mean if
you know a trick and you
like they were doing if you could get the right back spin on it and hit it
right at the edge you can get
it to stay in there but how they get people so easily is they'll the guy
sitting in the in the
booth can easily toss the ball in there from his angle it'll easily go in there
and stay in there
and then you give the other ball to the guy and be like look at how easy it is
throw the ball in there
and give him a free shot here's a free shot see how easy it is and then they
throw it in there because
that other ball is already in the basket it'll dead in that second ball and
that second ball will stay in
so now people like oh my god that was so easy but now when you give them the
balls they don't have
that first ball in there and they won't get that ball to stay in there wow and
you're like no it's
like this this you know what you're doing wrong bud you're hitting it in the
wrong place watch what i
do watch what i do you take that ball and you're like just like this throw it
in there and it goes
in and you're like here's this ball watch try it now and they do it and they're
like oh i did it
you're right and then you give them both balls again and then they can never do
it again and you
just keep it going keep the cycle going dude i remember the weird there was
always the weirdest energy
when you were the kid and you were up there at the thing you once you'd engaged
in the conversation
with the booth guy if you're a kid you're like you start to feel like man i
gotta play now i already
started talking to this guy you know i know only got a couple of bucks here
what am i gonna do
you know and then you would play and then you would miss the first one and you'd
be like
i am such a loser yeah i am a loser and they know you're not going to win too
and they're just trying
to get that two bucks out of you and get you out of the get you out of the hair
god that was hard
and i'll tell you what if eric adams was there he would have found out that
there wasn't a next box
in that box yeah yeah yeah oh oh so you're saying that if they have the prizes
some of the prizes
aren't even in the boxes no wow oh yeah because they know nobody can win it so
why you're not
even going to put a real prize they just put playstation boxes and xboxes i
mean damn dude and
the crazy eric adams will probably find the yayo that's hiding in there but
what's in here and mitch is talking about the episode with um
who are we with shane gillis and we're like that oh yeah yeah that's just that
was so funny dude
yeah that was a crazy video i can't believe they're doing the drug searches
like that but yeah oh but
sometimes we would win something and it would be a felt elvis or a felt picture
of a something
oh i remember those felt pictures remember it's like it was like neon and felt
yeah some of it would
be felt like not all of it yeah if you had a black light or something it would
look like you'd be able
to see it really good posters they had those felt posters that's what it was
yeah yeah yeah um yeah
i forgot about those yeah the start art games like the the ones that you throw
the dart at oh that
was fun with the balloons yeah the balloons are a hustle though too it is oh
yeah because they don't
always have like because oh because you'd have a dot behind it or something you
had to have a um
they'd have different um circles under there and they'd say small medium large
like what size prize
you win and you know they would never have an extra large up under there or if
they did it would be
under like a really like barely blown up balloon so that dark would always go
out when it god
because i based how i felt about myself for the rest of the year on how well i
did on these games
that was the that was the thing yeah even the start art game like if you didn't
get that dart
right in the red star dart yeah that's what we called it the start art where it
was like you had
to throw a dart get it in the red and it couldn't touch the border around it it
would be a black border
around the red star and if it touched any part of the the dart was touching the
black just a little bit
you didn't win oh and the thing was if you'd think it would be in there
completely you know you're on
the ground you hit it and you're like oh did that go in and the person working
the game would go up
and look and if it was all the way in but it was close he would just touch it a
little bit and push
the dart so it would touch the black oh yeah yeah i don't you just have to do
it nice and smooth so
you just you know you just barely push the dart up a little bit so it'll start
touching the border
and be like oh you're so close bud come on up and take a look you'll see it's
touching the black
i don't even remember that one star dart i remember they had the water horse
but that was a competition
against other people so somebody always won yeah i mean there are ones that are
slower than others
yeah naturally like the games like you could hit them both at the same time and
one just rises a lot
slower than the other one or blows up the other one i remember yeah one
sometimes it didn't even make
any sense i remember one time it was like ring the fish and they had fish
swimming and you just throw
the rings in there get a fish you didn't get you're like how do you even know
if you got it like i was
like you lost you're like oh dude i'm a loser man 12 more months of winter it's
like punksatani phil
just seeing your reality each year when i went it was like god i forgot how
much yeah i based my like
who i was off of that man and just like because i i would save my money each
you know i was very
particular about saving my money so when we go down there i'd have an you know
i'd plan ahead and
i would get my little i would keep my money in like one of those gym beam those
purple gym beam
bags you know you remember the oh yeah with the drawstring yeah oh yeah i'll
keep my money
crown royal yeah the crown royal bag sorry the crown royal bag and i bring it
down there and god dude
this felt horrible ring toss that was one now that was fun i will say this
because you know why because
you got a bunch of rings yeah and they can't lie to you you're either getting
it on the bottle or you're
not like that's a legitimate game that those are still around right that was a
lot of fun i remember
um those ones are a hustle oh yeah the weighted yeah the weighted everybody
knows that now but and this
is we're looking at the weighted uh milk bottles yep and the softballs yeah
what was so hard about it
just they're weighted they're not going to knock over with the um softball
because you'd fill them
with you'd fill them with lead or cement or whatever and the top one would be
empty so people said oh
they're weighted you would just grab the empty one and hand it to them and be
like oh look at dude
they're not weighted oh wow it was one other game we used to play where you
would like put the slide
the money and it would oh you pay and get these thing of coins and you put the
coins in and it
would pull the splash down was one of the ones we called it yeah it would move
the coins forward and
sometimes it would push a little like a an actual quarter would be on top of
them it would push a
quarter off for a dollar we use quarters in ours oh you do yeah there was
sometimes depending on the
state sometimes you had to use coins sometimes you can use quarters in maine
you can use quarters
yeah and so but those are a hustle too are they yeah because there's a couple
different ways they
hustled it sometimes there would be uh something under the quarters of the
coins there's like this
triangle right at the front of the lip so when they're pushing they push
sideways and if you want
to see on the sides there's the splash downs on the sides did you notice before
that there's an out of
bounds so the coins can push into the out of bounds so you would put a lot of
weight in the middle
so instead of pushing forward it would push to the side yeah because they could
fall off to the side yeah
and if they fell off in the middle you got it you got it right but if they
follow the sides the house
gets it oh yeah that was it right there and so the more weight you put in the
front
the more it's going to push to the sides damn sometimes people would glue that
down no oh yeah oh
god you know what it taught you though it taught you about loss man it taught
you that life is gonna
you're probably gonna lose yeah you know and you're probably gonna knock
somebody off

Carnival Worker Explains How the Games Rip You Off

what about so take me into some of the games yeah the games the games are fun
let's get
into something interesting because you had the boost you had the game booth
yeah we had game
boost we own some uh my brother still has i i think he still has one or two you
know they're
definitely not as profitable as they used to be yeah um but yeah i used to have
all kinds of games
i mean a lot of them are illegal now you know maybe i should throw in yeah
maybe i should throw
on some like shades or something if i want to spill secrets like the magician
telling his secrets of
the about the games yeah if you want to put some on no i'm just kidding they
all know who i am now
anyway oh yeah well i yeah because i know there was videos that came out years
ago about like exposing
all the games or whatever really i didn't like that i knew that you pretty much
weren't gonna win
no there's something that you are not gonna win unless they want you to win ah
if you if they got
if you if they got enough money out of you and they got a good tip going there's
a big crowd
or if you're in a wheelchair or something probably if you're maybe it all
depends on how much money
you spent yeah and then like if they got a nice crowd and they want to keep
that and a lot of like
if the crowd is really like they've been there a while and they really want to
see that dude win
and he spent enough money and you know you could get now you can if that dude
wins everybody's gonna
stop playing yeah you know ah so the part of it is some strategy yeah well
there's a lot of strategy to it
what was one of the games that was the toughest game to win probably you think
the toughest to win like
legitimately well so there's some that just can't be one okay so okay so take
me like what is one of
them so like the cover the red spot you guys ever have that one cover the red
so there would be yeah
there'd be a big red circle yeah and you get like little discs this yeah yeah
could not be one legally
oh there would be one that could be one on that the guy would show you how to
do it on because that
one can be one okay and he would always use that one and i've worked that game
before so i know how
it's done and then you have all the other ones the circles are just slightly
too big to be completely
covered oh so the base circle yep there it is ah cover the spot okay so you see
how that one's
covered all down there with the five discs it's completely covered so sometimes
those red circles are
just slightly too big where it's mathematically impossible to cover it all dude
the saddest part
i just remembered this so my brother he was like the older brother you know and
like
he like was trying to win a game and i knew we didn't have much money you know
so like
he kept trying to win and like i knew it started to be a little bit thing like
i gotta win this my
brother's watching me you know and he didn't win and i could feel it just break
his heart oh man
i have seen god so many hearts broken really oh my god i've seen families
broken up
oh i mean they've spent their whole mortgage lost the car like lost everything
yeah he traded their kid
in like trying to win i swear to god sometimes you'll see the kids still up
there as a prize now you can win
them yeah you guys want you guys want this uh stuffed bunny with a cleft palate
or you want ricky
nah nah we got a real life ginger over here we gotta feed ricky man we'll take
that we'll take that
that uh hoppy the cleft palate fucking easter hero over there it's if you got a
gambler playing you know
somebody that gambles they know what's up no you they lose everything because
they want to win they
want to win and then you tell them hey man if you win not only will you get the
prize but i'll give
you your all your money back oh every dollar you spent i will give it back if
you win want to play again
fuck
and now a gambler is not going to say no and how hard is it have you ever had
to run somebody up like
that i kind of have by the time those games are kind of i mean i ran the red
spot and stuff but i
was a kid i was still a teenager then so i wasn't a real agent you know but
were there some people they
were good at oh man they were so good like when i was a real little kid and
before i was working i would
you know sit on the counters with some of these guys you know when yeah they're
not busy and i'd sit
down and hang out but then all of a sudden the mark would walk by and they'd
get them and i would just
see them run them up because like you pay your bills right yeah like you pay
your bills every month
yeah yeah so just don't worry about paying me up front just keep playing i'll
tell you how much you
owe at the end oh yeah what do you think is the most you ever seen somebody
lose on a carnival game
i've seen somebody lose a car like legit how to give up their car no yeah who
who's gonna enforce it
though well because they're a gamble they're game like most most gamblers pay
that like if they have
it they'll pay their debt so they'll go get they'll go get the title and sign
it over right there to
keep playing really yeah i mean you ever been to a casino like some of these
guys some of these
gamblers are like they lose everything amazed at somebody yeah i have friends
that are real successful
and i'm amazed at some of these guys that just go gamble all the time i've seen
i've seen people
like eventually like they'll go home and they're like i just got hustled and
then they'll end up
like going to the cops or something like that and coming down the next day and
you got to squash the
beef and make everybody happy like i've seen that happen new hampshire man
loses life savings on
carnival game let's look at it i probably saw that epsom new hampshire from the
salts i guess
um henry gribom says he lost his life savings 2 600 dollars damn life savings
carnival game and
all he has to show for it is a stuffed banana with dreadlocks wow you got the
dreaded one though
dude blm bro that's all i'm saying dude yeah at least you got the dreaded
banana dude
wow yeah it's it was crazy those games are illegal now though up there well it
says you're expecting
the kids to win a few things let the kids have a good time say grip home i just
didn't turn it just
didn't turn out that way grip home says he attended a manchester carnival run
by new hampshire
based fiesta shows you mentioned them that's us it is that's who we worked for
wow and wanted to
win an xbox connect at a game called tubs of fun yeah i'll tell you about that
one where contestants
toss balls into a tub ain't happening it isn't what is it so the bushel basket
that's what it is the
tubs of fun so they take those remember those old apple bushel baskets oh yes i
remember they'd be
up on the side yeah like at an angle kind of yeah at an angle kind and you got
to toss the softball
in there yes yes there it is oh there's some guys getting it right here yeah
yeah so there's a there's a trick to it do you see how he's doing it you got to
give it a spin and
it's got to hit right on the edge i see so it'll like it'll kind of like use
its momentum to stay
in there and they're using plastic ones too they i don't know right go back to
the bushel baskets can
you find the bushel baskets they might be just referencing the one we're
talking about it's the same
game but the bush those were made of the wooden ones like the original apple
bushel baskets yeah so
take me through it so what the problem they were at like an angle right yeah it's
that same same same
thing as that with the plastic ones except they were wooden um they just won't
stay in there the softball
is so light and bouncy and the back of those baskets are just so bouncy as well
that they would just
bounce out you can't get the ball to stay in there it's it's really i mean if
you know a trick and you
like they were doing if you could get the right back spin on it and hit it
right at the edge you can get
it to stay in there but how they get people so easily is they'll the guy
sitting in the in the
booth can easily toss the ball in there from his angle it'll easily go in there
and stay in there
and then you give the other ball to the guy and be like look at how easy it is
throw the ball in there
and give him a free shot here's a free shot see how easy it is and then they
throw it in there because
that other ball is already in the basket it'll dead in that second ball and
that second ball will stay in
so now people like oh my god that was so easy but now when you give them the
balls they don't have
that first ball in there and they won't get that ball to stay in there wow and
you're like no it's
like this this you know what you're doing wrong bud you're hitting it in the
wrong place watch what i
do watch what i do you take that ball and you're like just like this throw it
in there and it goes
in and you're like here's this ball watch try it now and they do it and they're
like oh i did it
you're right and then you give them both balls again and then they can never do
it again and you
just keep it going keep the cycle going dude i remember the weird there was
always the weirdest energy
when you were the kid and you were up there at the thing you once you'd engaged
in the conversation
with the booth guy if you're a kid you're like you start to feel like man i
gotta play now i already
started talking to this guy you know i know only got a couple of bucks here
what am i gonna do
you know and then you would play and then you would miss the first one and you'd
be like
i am such a loser yeah i am a loser and they know you're not going to win too
and they're just trying
to get that two bucks out of you and get you out of the get you out of the hair
god that was hard
and i'll tell you what if eric adams was there he would have found out that
there wasn't a next box
in that box yeah yeah yeah oh oh so you're saying that if they have the prizes
some of the prizes
aren't even in the boxes no wow oh yeah because they know nobody can win it so
why you're not
even going to put a real prize they just put playstation boxes and xboxes i
mean damn dude and
the crazy eric adams will probably find the yayo that's hiding in there but
what's in here and mitch is talking about the episode with um
who are we with shane gillis and we're like that oh yeah yeah that's just that
was so funny dude
yeah that was a crazy video i can't believe they're doing the drug searches
like that but yeah oh but
sometimes we would win something and it would be a felt elvis or a felt picture
of a something
oh i remember those felt pictures remember it's like it was like neon and felt
yeah some of it would
be felt like not all of it yeah if you had a black light or something it would
look like you'd be able
to see it really good posters they had those felt posters that's what it was
yeah yeah yeah um yeah
i forgot about those yeah the start art games like the the ones that you throw
the dart at oh that
was fun with the balloons yeah the balloons are a hustle though too it is oh
yeah because they don't
always have like because oh because you'd have a dot behind it or something you
had to have a um
they'd have different um circles under there and they'd say small medium large
like what size prize
you win and you know they would never have an extra large up under there or if
they did it would be
under like a really like barely blown up balloon so that dark would always go
out when it god
because i based how i felt about myself for the rest of the year on how well i
did on these games
that was the that was the thing yeah even the start art game like if you didn't
get that dart
right in the red star dart yeah that's what we called it the start art where it
was like you had
to throw a dart get it in the red and it couldn't touch the border around it it
would be a black border
around the red star and if it touched any part of the the dart was touching the
black just a little bit
you didn't win oh and the thing was if you'd think it would be in there
completely you 