ARCADE SCAM SCIENCE (not clickbait)
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Channel: Mark Rober
Views: 16,379,196
Rating: 4.9208841 out of 5
Keywords: arcade, scam, science, cyclone, arcade scam, arcade hack, game, nasa, mark rober, carnival, carnival scam science, rigged game, cheat, how to win, robot, maker, skillshare
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Length: 7min 57sec (477 seconds)
Published: Wed Jan 03 2018
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Hey, Iβm Mark Rober and thatβs my video! I love being able to use scientific rigor to definitively answer questions people speculate about. Iβd be happy to answer any follow up questions you guys might have when I get home from work tonight.
A law should be enacted to make it mandatory for gambling machines like this and all the other fake "skill-based" ones to publicly display the odds of winning, just as the lottery system does.
I've reviewed manuals of other machines and by default they almost all are set to only give a chance of winning every so many hundreds of turns (700 in some cases), and they could be adjusted up to 9,999 before any chance of winning at all.
It is depressing to have watched all the regional arcades transition from traditional video games and stuff like air hockey to these secretive scams, and they make a killing doing so. I know people who have blown over $50 on a single "Key Master" game insisting that they just about had the prize every time, but never got it cause the pay-out rate was so outrageous.
I'm really liking this guy's channel, he takes a great empirical approach to carefree, fun problems
My question is -- if this is a game of chance, it's now a gambling machine, right? I ain't no lawyer, but doesn't that mean kids cannot be allowed to play it? And doesn't it require a different sort of license to sell and operate?
I thought it was common knowledge that the odds of winning are set by the house. Even in casino games. Those odds are regulated by law and there's certain limits they can't go over. For example in the UK if a crane machine has fixable odds its regarded as a "gaming machine" and the player needs to be informed : http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/for-gambling-businesses/Compliance/Sector-specific-compliance/Arcades-and-machines/Non-complex-cat-D-gaming-machines-crane-grabs.aspx
I realized this with the tower of power arcade game and realized all similar games were the same. I found Stacker does the same, it'll always skip at the top unless you get there at the right time when no one else has won freaking in forever.
The incandescent bulbs on Cyclone hide the skipping effect way better than tower of power and Stacker though. If I hadn't played the other games I probably wouldn't have even realized the scam.
The changes to the music throughout the video are really good. Good content too.
Same thing with those block stacking games. Everytime I go to an arcade I win the major jackpot on the first try. If I try again it will always "slip" off after a clear delay of when I pushed it
Who would have thought arcade machines that have prizes would play on an uneven field? Shocking I tell you.