Cruise Ship Non-slot Machines- Do you play them?

To all the cruise ship slot floor players. Non-slot gaming options on cruise ships are awful for scratcher, pull tabs, bingo (all about 25% paybacks). Those "Key in the Hole," Casino Vault, fake-skill machines as well as the "coin pusher" real coin games (illegal in most land-based gaming jurisdictions) are deceiving, but still fun to watch. So its time to admit.... do you or have you tried those games, knowing or not knowing, how deceiving and unregulated they really are? Have you ever won big playing those games?
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I play them here when I see them with My nephews.....Used to like to play the coin pushers in Vegas when they still had them. I did ok on the $1 ones in Vegas, they had Baskets on the back wall and if the coin went in there you would get that amount, got the $50 or $100 at least once that I can recall

What I wouldn't do to find a coin pusher somewhere. I believe I could spend hours on one.

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I played them a bit on a cruise a few years ago. Only spent about $20 and came out even. It was a sea day and too rough to be outside.

Lol, Mr CT loves the coin pusher on cruise ships! Money lasts a lot longer than putting it into a slot and it keeps him occupied while I’m losing it on the actual slot machines.
He’s gotten a few of the “premium” prizes (paper clipped $20 surrounding a stack of $1s) lol! They’re fun!


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Originally Posted by bluesfan

I played them a bit on a cruise a few years ago. Only spent about $20 and came out even. It was a sea day and too rough to be outside.

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Actually. there are two kinds of "coin pusher" hold versions that were produced for the gaming industry over the years. Most are the coins pushing in all three directions where the coins falling off the sides, which you can never see but always hear, are kept by the house. The other version has all the coins pushing forward but for every four or more that fall into the forward tray at one time, only three or more actually are dispensed in the hopper below (which meets the 75% minimum payback in some jurisdictions). One, two, or three coins falling at one time are not withheld, which rarely happens as the coins are normally stacked and the players always try to go for the highest stacked ones "about to fall off". When the machines are off, like on a cruise with rough seas, the house keeps all the coins that fall, so you cant "bump" the machine in after-hours for any "pocket change". Either way, most land jurisdictions do not allow real money gambling on these anymore due to potential outside forces/factors affecting the machine. They are seen mostly in the arcade token ticket prize games and on cruise ships casinos.