Dave & Busters Update

I took advantage of Dave & Buster's half price game special today. After I finished doing a full route at the Post Office and dropped off a friend at the Carmax dealership so she could pick up her car, I drove down to their arcade at the Arundel Mills Mall. I played my favorite game Spin & Win. Lady luck was with me for a change. I hit the 1,000 ticket spot 7 times! All totalled, I won 9,424 tickets. I think that's the most tickets I've won at one visit there ever. I wonder if the fact that I was relaxed playing the game helped. Since the game was half price, I wasn't worrying about how much each play was costing. The Spin & Win game can be expensive to play. It's something like nearly 10 coins a play or just under 9 with a Gold card. I wanted to take further advantage of the half-price games but, I was tired from working a full route. I decided to call it a day after I exhausted all the coins on my game card. I hope Dave & Buster's offer the half-price game day again sometime. It is a nice deal though I'm certain they're still making money out of it. I still haven't decided on a prize yet. They have a Zune 30 GB MP3 player for 46,000 tickets or a Sony Digital camcorder for 58,000. I think the Sony camcorder sells for around $260 on sale. I would like to have an MP3 player and a digital camcorder. The MP3 player would make it easy to take tunes along on trips as well as bible doctrine lessons. And, the camcorder would provide some really cool memories of the upcoming Egypt tour. We'll see. For now, I can savor the fact that I have 73,083 tickets. I can think of the all cool prizes I can claim. It's fun. Cheers all!

Casino Royal Game

I decided to try the Casino Royal Game at Dave & Busters. The last time I was there, a guy told me you could win more tickets on it vice Spin & Win. After playing it for 20 minutes, I found I ended up with as many tickets as I would've won on Spin & Win on one of my bad days on it i.e. I only managed to hit the 1,000 tickets light twice. I found I did get more play action on the Casino Royal game vice the Spin & Win as I got 10 coins to put in the game everytime vice getting to pull the spin lever and hit the stop button. Also, I received more winning action i.e. I had more times when I'd win tickets. In terms of what it cost to play the game, it was the same if you had a regular play card (10 tickets vice 9.9 tickets). If you had a Gold card, you could play the Spin & Win game more overall as it costs 8.9 tickets to play that each time vice the 10 tickets it cost to play Casino Royal every time. Timing wise, it was easier to play the Casino Royal game vice trying to get it right when the light comes around the Spin & Win wheel. However, if you had a Gold card and tried to hit the 80 ticket window on the Spin & Win vice the 1,000, you'd could easily get as many tickets on that game.

Overall, the Casino Royal game is a lot easier to play. If you're timing isn't the greatest, you'll want to play that game vice Spin & Win. If you want the greatest chance to win big, you'll want to play Spin & Win as the Casino Royal game can't match the 1,000 windows on the Spin & Win game. In terms of excitement, I think the Spin & Win game is more exciting to play. Every time you pull the lever on that game, you could win 1,000 tickets. As to which game you should play, I'll leave that up to you. You know what arcarde games you like to play. If you're into sports arcade games, a lady playing next to me at the Casino Royal games told me the basketball shooting game pays out well. You might want to try that.

FYI, the gift shop got some new prizes in. One notable one is a Toshiba 15-inch dual tv system (digital and analog)/monitor with DVD player. This is going for 90,000 tickets! They also some new prize that cost 120,000 but I forget what it was. Someone claimed the Sony entertainment system they had for 48,000 tickets.

Spin and Win

This past Sunday, I drove out to Dave & Busters so I could add to my ticket total. I played the Spin and Win game again. I made a couple surprise discoveries this time. First, I found out the game will start even if you don't pull the lever to start the light going around. I don't know how long the game will wait but it will eventually start on its own. Second, I found out that you have a limited time to hit the stop button. I was waiting to try to get a good idea when to hit the stop button so I could hopefully hit the 1,000 ticket marker. I guess I exceeded the wait time on the game because to my total astonishment, it stopped and gave me 10 tickets. For those of you who don't know, 10 tickets is worse than any marker on the game (the lowest markers are 20 tickets). I don't know how long you have before the game will stop on its own and I don't care to research that considering what it costs to play it. I'm just giving you my readers a heads-up that you have a limited amount of time to hit the stop button.

Luck wasn't really with me this last trip to Dave & Busters. I only hit the 1,000 marker 3 times. I managed to increase my ticket total over 4,000 tickets. I now have 45,869 tickets. The irony of the situation is that Dave & Busters doesn't have anything in the prize shop that I really want. Oh well. I plan to keep playing and I hope they'll get some nice new prizes in. We'll see.