cheating at an arcade game to find out the arcade game is cheating

*gets banned from all carnivals and arcades*

Same problem with claw games. Usually the claw slips off, making you think it was close. I believe the claw rarely grabs strong enough to pick up anything.

I used to work in an arcade and had one of these things in it. Winning percentages are tracked weekly with the goal of paying out 25 percent in prizes of the revenue those games brought in. I had to track ticket payouts weekly and adjust. The older ones we had to adjust mechanically, but I loved these ones because it was just a matter of changing a setting on the logic board.

If you watch in 0.25 speed. The bonus light sometimes doesn’t even light up.

I love how gambling is illegal/regulated all over the country. but we allow deceptive fixed gambling to children unregulated.

I noticed this too when I would try this. I would always be one behind or one ahead. Had no evidence to suggest it was rigged, but this was so consistent for me it made me question if I was being scammed or not.

As Qxir once said, any business built upon giving away money, can’t be fair

"You're cheating!" *Never rob a bank w this kid*

Kids:"You're cheating" *_Well yes but actually no_*

"Cheating's a strong word.....I'm using an advantage I created for myself!" I love it!!!

Yo~!! You're a life saver for these last days of school before my school's summer break. My kiddos and I can't get enough of your videos. I introduce science concepts, show a short clip of yours (as a teaser), my kiddos build, then watch what you did to compare and/or keep or improve their own creations. Bless you, brother.

"You're cheating!" "Not really.. I'm using an advantage I created myself." *phrase stolen*

He defines the phrase: “cool uncle”

It's so crazy. After you adding the information I had for years, namely him being one of the kids recurring in quite a few of your videos and you having a son, together, I just now realise in how many videos your son is/was having a cameo of some sorts. 😂

These machines used to have a glitch where you could hold the button down, unplug and plug it back in and it would spit out 150 tickets :) That was back in the 90's, i'm sure they've addressed that by now, but in my youth we definitely cleaned a few of these out....

Kid: "You're cheating!" Well it's fine because the game is cheating too.

These kids say “he’s cheating” but they don’t know he’s bringing justice to them all

To be fair, an arcade is basically a casino for kids. They spend money playing games to try to win jackpots of winnings. And as Mark proves here in an arcade, just like a casino, the house always wins.

As a former arcade tech (albeit 20 years ago) I can confirm Cyclone can be set to payout jackpots at variable intervals and also people would stand there with a cup of tokens and just keep plunking them in. Cyclone was one of our top 3 ticket games for my entire 2 years at the arcade and I'm not surprised it still exists to this day. For the record, MOST of our non-skill based (ie not skeeball or basketball) redemption games from that time period had ways of being set to payout jackpots variably.

Me: *cheats on arcade games* Arcade games: *pulls out an uno reverse card*

"You're cheating!" Arcade Owner: "Yeah, You're cheating!" "...seriously?"

Most redemption games are like this, but some are pure skill. For example, gravity hill. You could technically win every time but it is very difficult lol

worked in a bowling alley in high school, the winnability can be set for literally anything even the claw machines, where the grip strength is only strong enough every few plays

"Cheating is a strong word." Thats what cheaters say.

Imagine every arcade has a wanted sign for him dead or alive

I remember I won those games, but only twice in all my years of being on this planet. Claw machines are a different story. I have a somewhat agreeable liking/absolute hatred towards them.

I knew it. Kudos to anyone who scams the businesses back by turning in tickets they found in the dumpster.

“I’m not cheating, I’m using a strong advantage” I’m gonna use that line next time I cheat

My wife was right, I shouldn’t have wasted so much money on that game.

4:21 seconds on the stowatch hurts. You were so close to greatness

Well… I like knowing that every time I missed by one as a kid it really meant that I nailed it.

I knew it. Screw that game.

My Dad wasn’t an engineer, but he always told us these games (and carny games) were rigged and a rip off. He told us he’d rather we just go to the toy store and buy a nice quality toy! You just proved him 100% right,70 years later. Thanks for a great lesson!

Marks the kind of person that would terraform mars so that he could give us another interesting video to watch

I try to avoid electronic games at arcades as they can be rigged like Mark demonstrated.

I’m amazed that a grown man spent hours in Chuck-E Cheese for months in a row, and no one was suspicious.

Introduction to gambling addiction at a very young age.

Can we just appreciate how Genius Mark Rober is.

The little kid in the background as it faded out. “Is this hacking?” 😂

*Security guard has entered the chat*

Arcade logic: -arcades can be rigged and make you lose -not allowed to cheat to win

When you learn more from a 7 minute, 8 second long KZfaq video than you do from an hour of doing science for school... Awesome video!

The people that make those arcade machines are crafty they rig the games win to loss so you could lose 30 and win 1 this can vary on the arcade place it creates additive behavour

I love how Mark is standing in the middle of the arcade recording a video out loud about how the arcade is rigged Mark you're a legend.

This is the epitome of the “Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man” meme Cheating at a game only to realize that the game is cheating

There are 4 spots, does it only jackpot every 30 so times one each spot or overall? Like, if I get a jackpot, do I go to the next one or do I just wait it out 30 times. Also does it ever reset? Like if I show up the first of the day, or after x hours?

Here is another way, Bribe Zach King to do his magic trick to pull the jackpot in for you

Can it really be called cheating if the game is already rigged against you?

This sounds like the start of a huge lawsuit especially since these games are designed for children.

I used to be a manager of a pocket change (namco) and we had games like this that, as the manual states, had a jackpot setting, like he states. Cranes have difficulty settings as well. There’s all sort of sneaky stuff in those games.

"Pull out your phone like your watching dank memes" Love that line

LITTLE KID: “you’re cheating!!” ARCADE OWNER: “hold my beer”

I had come to the same conclusion about these (and similar games) years ago by using a highspeed camera and recording myself playing it over and over, only to examine the footage and find that there was no correlation to when I pushed the button vs. where the light would stop.

There was an older version of it where you could, in fact, play properly. I got so consistent about it i could drain the jackpot completely to where it was better to stop on NOT the jackpot. Then they updated to the rigged version.

I've hit the jackpot once at Chuck E. Cheese, the light landed there, and then it moved one spot over after already stopping. Never played one again.

moral of the story: if you own an arcade, kick mark out as soon as he walks in.

I like how they can cheat you, but you cheat them you break the law

My dad told me these machines were rigged, so i never wasted money on them.

"I'm not cheating. I'm using an advantage I created myself." My new favorite quote.

Never trust an arcade games that’s completely electronic. Source: worked at an arcade for 6 summers in my teens.

"I use the cheats to destroy the cheats" -Mark Rober

I win once when /i was young in HK. 2:4 Well, the tightness of the crane in crane games are mostly varied by the difficulty button behind the locked coin box.

The hummingbird flapping thing is so funny when u do da one millisecond vid.😂

5.3K arcade owners disliked the video *265K cheaters liked the video*

So gambling is illegal for kids to participate in, but arcade games that work on gambling principles are just fine??

One time, my friend literally timed the button PERFECTLY and got a jackpot.

these games, claw machines etc all have a win or payout setting that can be set by the operator no different from 80's arcade games where you can set how hard it was via dip switches

Mark can you make a video explaining the coin pusher arcade game?

PLOT TWIST: the jackpot slot doesn’t even have a bulb in it.

Amazing none of the staff noticed you'd got a backpack placed on one of the stations where the light kept stopping. You should do a video trying to explain that.

He always says he’s using an advantage no matter what 😂 I just love that

This guy is literally one of the most wholesome, awesome, entertaining, original, and overall amazing KZfaqr I’ve ever come across on this website. Love your stuff. Keep up the good work!

It’s not cheating The game is a “test of skill”; he’s just making use of *his* skills

Vibration, slippage of the mechanical components (screws, etc.)

I remember winning the jackpot at a local mall just to have the employee ruin my mood by telling me it wasnt skill but mere rigging

so its basically gambling, but legal for kids

Kids: "You're cheating!" Mark Rober: No, the arcade is cheating

The Chuck E. Cheese gaming commission would like to have a word with you.

"I'm using an advantage I might have created myself" Mr Burns salutes you. Ifykyk

I once found that one of the machines tickets thing was open so I took all the tickets out and I won an Xbox

Pull out your phone like your checking DANK MEMES

When you build a 3d printed photo sensitive robot with an 1800s hand drill. Lol

And this my friends is what Casinos do on the daily. Unfortunately gamblers just don't get the memo. It's all designed to make profits while you go broke. I wish people would understand it's business and this is how they make their money.

I was always bad at these, now i see why

A golden key that’s being used to open a broken lock.

He should have deliberately hit the button while the light was way off for like 30 times to see if it still spits out a jackpot.

Incandescents light also have a delay they don't light up and light down nearly instantly like an led does.

6:37 Kid So you're cheating? Mark: Well, technically... Kid: HE'S CHEATING!!! Mark: Do you want your tickets or not?

I worked at an arcade for 5 years. A lot of the games are rigged. It obviously depends on the game, but many of them have options where you can set the payout rate. Games like Cyclone, Stacker, Keymaster, etc. Stacker and Keymaster, where you put in a very expensive prize to draw people in (Xbox, PS4, Beats, etc.), we would set a 1/1000 payout rate. So we'd always be guaranteed to make money on it. My boss even told one of my coworkers before we opened for the day, to play Stacker until he wins. He literally played the game for 1.5 hours straight, won the game, so it reset the payout, so we wouldn't have to give out a prize for another month or whatever. Arcades are scams, simple as that. I honestly thought it was just common knowledge though, I'm surprised everybody doesn't know this.

Scams are legal in carnivals & arcades, and nobody can escape them. Sad.

Well there was an arcade in Genting where I could reliably get the jackpot around 8 times out of 10. It was a great ticket farm. Guess they forgot to rig it.

"Your cheating!" They cheated first. He's simply trying to level the playing field.

Man imagine how many students would be excited to learn , if this channel was the kind of education we got

We had something similar to that in our local arcade. Someone, nobody knows who, had unscrewed the dome so that once the thing stopped, you could place the ball in the lit spot. The arcade lost tens of thousands of tickets plus before some do-gooder narced and ended the fun.

Can you imagine paying for something with the expectation to win as it is presented it is skill or luck, but to be told no you aren't going to win, no matter what you do.

Carnivals & Arcades, both ruined for me

i would love to see mark get let loose in a casino 😂

I'm surprised that arcades aren't required to post odds of winning games. Casinos usually are. And I think that games like this, that APPEAR to be games of skill, but are ACTUALLY games of chance, should be illegal.