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If there’s a strategy to winning the Ring Toss game at the Douglas County Fair, Tad Buckingham would have you believe it embodies the laws of physics rather than a flick of the wrist and luck.
“You look at the physics of the thing and it looks like a wow gold very improbable game,” the Portlander said Wednesday afternoon of the challenge to hoop one of dozens of upright bottles with a hard plastic ring. “I bet if you ask her (the “carney” running the game) to set one over, it gets just barely over.”
His professional opinion aside, Buckingham still plunked down $3 so cheap wow gold his 7-year-old son, Zach, could wow his grandparents with a giant stuffed tiger. Each of his three shots would have claimed the prize, but they all bounced off bottle rims and rattled to the table instead.
The carney, insisting on anonymity, said she’s seen three winners at the buy wow gold Ring Toss since the fair started Tuesday. And none of the winners tossed from a lucky spot, she guaranteed.
If there’s a secret to winning any of the other dozen or so games at the fair, grandmother Susie Anderson has got the scoop: “Just fork over the dough and let them go for it.”
After playing five different games, her grandsons, Corbin and Ethan Maple Story Mesos Eichman, had won three prizes between them.
“And that’s not too bad,” Anderson said.
Two carnies from Roseburg were more forthcoming with the secrets of games. However, that was before Funtastic Shows, the traveling carnival from Portland, muted them.
Carney Hayden Hefner, 18, says it’s all about the underhand FFXI GIL shot with backspin — the “granny shot” — if you wish to be successful shooting basketballs at a small rim inside a netted cage. And he’s serious, too, considering that the two big winners he’d seen Tuesday and Wednesday Lotro Gold employed the underhand method.
“It’s the only way,” he said.
Carney Lumya Marks, Hefner’s friend, said you have to aim for the EverQuest 2 Plat center of the bottom two bottles to knock all three over with a softball in the game Just Tip ‘Em Over.
Stepping up to the challenge costs $2 for one throw or $5 for Lineage 2 Adena three throws.
“And each ball is a separate game; you can’t throw at the same Eve Isk bottles,” said carney Cheri Girolami, of Vancouver, Wa.
Marks demonstrated the technique and took out the bottom bottle on the right and the one on top. The one on the left remained on the shelf.
At the Triple Crown, a game that calls for participants to roll balls up a Age of Conan Gold board and into holes to move plastic horses along a track, two 11-year-old girls pocketed their money. Patricia Castleberry and Olyvia Fox decided it would be better spent throwing it at another game.
As Castleberry walked with one medium-sized pink bear and another small bear in her arms, Fox decided they weren’t worth the greenbacks.
“Nah, not really,” Fox said, rolling her eyes SRO Gold for the third time inside 30 seconds.
“She always does that,” Castleberry revealed.
Hasina Spicer, 6, of Riddle, discovered the secret to the darts-and-balloons game: Throw it hard.
With six throws — it costs $5 for three — Spicer won two stuffed City Of Villains Infamy puppies and a small stuffed penguin.
At the Ring-A-Duck, it costs $2 for one ring. However, one ringed duck is all it takes to win a hefty stuffed animal, nearly as elaborate as the stuffed tigers at the Ring Toss.
When asked how many winners have walked away over City of Heroes Influence the past couple of days, the carney embodied Funtastic protocol:
“All questions have to be directed to customer service.”
