You could bring the local Sheriff to flash his badge.
Opie and the Carnival is in my top 5 Andy Griffith Episodes.
Opie loses money trying to win a prize for his dad. He asks Gober to try because he’s a good shot. He loses money and goes to Andy. Andy investigates and discovers the sights on the gun are bent. He arranges for Opie to have a fair chance at winning the prize.
Great episode that warned me to watch out at carnivals. I still play the games for fun and don’t expect to win.
I like the ring toss game. I know its rigged but its still fun. You can increase the odds to win by using the information in the youtube video.
There’s a game where you hit a small catapult with a mallet, and it flings as rubber frog toward a target. (Google says it’s called Frog Bog.) I’ve won that a couple times. I think the gimmick is that the frog is larger than the launcher, so it tends to wobble after it gets launched. My trick is to fold the frog’s legs under the body so it sits square on the launch pad. It gets a more consistent launch. Aim for the closest target so it’s easier to gauge how much force to apply.
How are the rules actually written? The star is on a card that’s held at the top by a clothes pin. If you just shot around the clothes pin, so that the entire card fell away, would that count as shooting out the star?
Everything has been tried. You aren’t going to outsmart them or come up with something novel after decades of it being around and billions of attempts.
