Carnival Games

Play the rigged-but-playable classic carnival games along the Mariana Boardwalk and at seasonal fairs, trading small change for giant stuffed animals nobody actually wants.

Leonida's carnival game scene features the whole classic suite: ring toss, milk bottle pyramid, dart-the-balloon, shoot-out-the-star, water gun race, whack-a-mole, and one genuinely unbeatable hammer-the-high-striker that the carnival mafia keeps rigged no matter how many times the inspector comes by. Each game has its own mechanics and its own statistical rigging modeled carefully enough that if you pay attention, you can identify which games are winnable and which are theatrical. The prize ladder goes from keychains through medium plushies to the sort of five-foot rainbow unicorn that requires a pickup truck to get home.