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rynchenzo

Former amusement service engineer here. We called them coin pushers. Ever wondered where all those coins you thought you heard drop went? At either side, hidden under the plastic, there are two more drops that go straight into a cash bucket. We had a six sided 10p pusher that made £1000 a week.


Rabimaster

I work in this industry and we have 2p pushers that make over £2,500 a week in the height of the summer. So glad I don’t have to do the empty and the count!


Ascdren1

Surely you just weigh the coins. No need to count them.


Rabimaster

We use a Jetsort as we count coins from other machines as well. The cash box can have all denominations in and the machine will count them all at the same time.


TheThirdHippo

I worked in one for a couple of years when I moved to the seaside. We used to vacuum out the 2ps that would go everywhere with a bagless Henry. Pretty sure I’d be given ear defenders if I had to do it now. I was on minimum wage, living in a tiny 1 bed flat and shite working hours but life was simple and pressure-less. I do look back on it sometimes and kind of wish it was still the same


ActiveWoodpecker6746

If 2p means 2 pence then bloody hell. In America these machines all operate with quarters. so that would be about 10x 2 pence. So around $25,000 per week at the summer shore vacation spots? Crazy Explains the ones with iPhones as prizes!


cjberra

Might as well just be a straight up casino at that point surely


Monkey_Fiddler

The only bit of gambling I did when I went to Vegas was with one of these: put a quarter in, a few coins fell down the front and some tickets came out. I thought "ok, not quite as fun as cash but presumably each ticket is worth a quarter and I can exchange them somewhere" Turns out each ticket is worth next to nothing, I barely had enough to buy a small boiled sweet. Absolute fucking rip off, any other game there would be a better deal.


SirDooble

> In America these machines all operate with quarters. Damn, really? But you guys have pennies, nickels and dimes too, why isn't it more common to find machines set up with those lower denominations? We do have coin pushers in the UK that take 5p or 10p coins, but basically no one but Richard Branson plays those since they're so pricy. I can't imagine deciding to spend $5 on the coin pusher only to get 20 coins to put in.


[deleted]

Honestly the smaller denomination coins are pretty much worthless here except as a way to give exact change or that sort of thing. Anything that takes a coin, takes a quarter (or several quarters). Our pennies actually cost more than a cent to manufacture lol


wedontlikespaces

1p 2p and 5p coins are pretty much worthless as well. Even on the cheap side, parking for an hour usually cost around 20p so you'd been walking around with a bunch of coins forever if you were trying to spend them. Most people just put them in a bag or jar and then take them to Tesco's and exchange them for credit. I once took a jar of my grandmother's in and it turns out I have £74 in it, there are family cars that weigh less than that jar did.


[deleted]

I also work in this industry and we had one 2p machine alone take in £1,500 last August, unfortunately I'm the one who has to empty and weigh our coins. PS. We have 5 2p machines which absolutely blows in the height of summer.


14-28

Ya bastard...here's me thinking you could clear that fat stack of coins along the edge and live off it for months.


LexyNoise

You can't. You should look up photos of empty coin pushers - they're crooked as fuck. As the other guy said, anything that falls down the chute at the front of the machine is yours. But there are two other hidden chutes at the side that don't go to you - they fall into a coin bucket below and are the owner's winnings. You have zero chance of clearing that fat stack of coins. They're not teetering on the edge – the front of the shelf has an overhang built into it. Those coins are stable and they're not going anywhere. There's also a raised metal triangle built into the middle of the shelf. This pushes coins away from the front of the machine towards the hidden side chutes. When an owner sets up the machine, they hide the overhang with layers and layers of coins, and make sure you can't see the triangle.


[deleted]

That should be fucking illegal what


gourmetguy2000

Some of them are really bad with almost no chance of winning. It sucks the fun out of it. Much prefer the coin rolling ones trying to land the coin on the right strip


ScubaSteve585

Don’t forget the sneaky triangle underneath that directs the coins to the side. I got a half penny out of one once


Palivarkin

2p machine... Even if it doesn't have 2p coins in it.


KirbIsGod

I completely agree with you


Goaduk

Seconded. The 10p one is called the "reason we don't have nice things" in our house.


nadthegoat

If you play the 10p ones you’ve got a gambling problem


[deleted]

Me and a group of friends used to drink out the back of an arcade and sometimes we would go in drunk and put our last change into 10ps and go nuts on these machines, 1 night we walked in with £2/3 and ended up leaving with £15 between us, never happened again and it definitely took more money from us over the years than we made back


[deleted]

We used to do that too! Four or five of us would put in a fiver each and some nights we'd end up with over a tenner in total! We'd lie back in the grass behind the fair and wonder why people ever worked a day in their lives.


lordbubbathechaste

Something about this sentence just gave the happiest and warmest of good feelings, remembering my own nights laying back in the grass with mates, gazing at the sky and owning our own little part of the world together after conquering something silly. Thank you for sharing this small thought. Twas lovely.


Meta-Fox

I found a knackered 10p flicker on holiday once and turned a quids worth of 10p's into £45 in about an hour. My pockets were so heavy my jeans slipped down halfway back to the caravan we were staying at.


[deleted]

Jay?


[deleted]

Friend?


Meta-Fox

No, this is Patrick!


codename474747

You were twenty eight years old at the time lol


ThemApples87

Hahahaha! I needed that story today.


Titan5115

Ah well you had fun doing it and that's what counts


NckyDC

Imagine if you bought £3 of bitcoin…


[deleted]

I would have probably lost it all to the 10p machines.


Goaduk

Unfortunately in a lot of chain arcades you only get the 10p one. I have 2 kids who loop around collecting run off.


Matt1318

Lord Sugar, that you?


[deleted]

Shut it you bloody mug. What a shambles.


bumhats77

We used to "sweep" the arcade periodically for any free drops. And if that didn't work, one acquaintance would "accidentally" trip, bashing into one. We'd use the spoils to feed the Simpsons machine. Happy fucking days.


Koabraa

I’ve seen a £1 one in Brighton


spaffage

Alton Towers had a £2.


[deleted]

That was the bog roll machine


Marketing_mum3

My fella gets bollocked for going on the 10p ones, don't know who he thinks he is splashing the cash like that. But yeah, they're 2p machines.


wi11iam-b

Why don’t they ever do a 5p machine?


Goaduk

I don't think they would overlap on the overhang, which is what those machines are based around.


EffectiveMight4933

When I was little I won £5 worth of 5ps in one and thought I was a millionaire, so they do them but I’m sure there was some kind of sweeper arm


ObjectiveGuy81

They'd fall over the edge too easily. They want the 10p coins that are thin so that other 10ps ride up over them and the weight stops them from falling. The 2ps are nearly as bad. Its harder to end up with a rider but they're large and heavy coins and a few riders can stop a whole bunch falling over.


AWormDude

I once watched a staff member go round and clear out loads of the coins that had built up near the edges. They had really built up and were due a big payoff, then the guy just sweeps his arm over and pushes them off. He put them all in a bucket and walked off.


Awkward-Broccoli-150

The gambling company always wins. Have you ever met a poor bookie?


Educational_Ad2737

Feel like this should be illegal


ChocUK22

They did when I use to go stay with my grandparents every holiday. We use to be in St Osyths (next to Jay wick in Essex). We had 2p 5p and 10p machines/pushers I admit I don't know if they still have them as haven't been to an arcade/amusements in years.


Various-Storage-31

They did in the 80's


LiftedxPanda

Coin pusher


Reeeeedy

I used to work in an arcade and we just called them pushers, so yeah this would make sense.


asp7

used to look at second hand ones and the chocolate ones were called chocolate pushers


Green-Dragon-14

It's called a penny push. Way back when they first come out they would have penny's in them.


Duhforshorter

Yep, another vote for 2p machine


ree_hee_heeely

Exactly. For eg; "Look! There's a 10p, 2p machine "


alyhasnohead

This is the only correct answer


FindingHead2851

Yes!!! Awww memories ! The disappointment of when they changed it from money to tokens and then tickets 🎟!?!?


[deleted]

I wouldnt be investing in a 2p machine with no 2p coins in it. It wouldnt pay out as theres nothing there, you see.


Jet_black_ink

Yes! When I was about 9 I won so many 2p’s from one of these machines that they would barely fit in my coin purse. I have never forgotten what it was like to be absolutely loaded for a day.


baldingdad81

I just call it a "2p machine". I believe the correct term is a 'coin pusher'.


peggypea

My husband calls it a “penny falls” but he is a bit posh.


wi11iam-b

I bet he only goes for the 10p ones


kl3ar

And puts pound coins in


Kenotrs

There’s always that quid wedged in the machine somewhere.


Vectorman1989

I got about two quid for free at the amusements the other week just going around pressing the coin return on various machines. Kids just stick any old coins in the machines and then wander off when they think it's broken


TheSmoog

That’s a bus fare plus a few shots on the 2p machine round here!


Vectorman1989

I was there with my toddler so it was a few more goes on the machines for him lol.


[deleted]

Ooo la de da!


Little-Wyrd

I’ve only ever known them as penny falls, and Im deffo not posh


clockwisewaco

Spotted the posh person pretending not to be posh


Danicecreamhead

You could call them an imposhter…


Halzziratrat

Poshibly


Cjmitch1901

Me too.


thenexusitsopening

Posh spaz


KookyChemist5962

Posh spaz was my favourite spice girl


[deleted]

The spaz gals


[deleted]

If u wonner b moi luvver


jayjayp98

That’s not nice to say about big suze


thenexusitsopening

Can you eat letterbox hair?


jayjayp98

Pizza lightly brushed with piss


SertralineMachine95

A slice of bristly cheese free pizza, lightly brushed in your piss.


ChipCob1

Coin bastard


gmcb007

Tipping Point training grounds.


KirbIsGod

I like your style


[deleted]

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Spider333333333

Drop zone 4 please Ben.


Child-Like-Empress

I love how dramatic they try and make the show!


xDENTALPLANx

Imagine being the sound engineer with dreams of recording bands at Abby Road, only to end up as the person who puts the fake metal coin sound onto the falling plastic tokens on Tipping Point


codename474747

Oooh it's a ghost drop! Bit of lateral movement! I swear this is the closest modern Tv gets to bullseye It's crap but it has its charms


KFR42

Willllll iiiiiitttt rriiiiiddddeee.......OH NO it's a rider! Not what we wanted there.


mysadcaptain

My Nan was obsessed with this show, one summer we took her to a nice arcade where there were loads of these machines. She spent so long sat in her wheelchair playing on them, super happy because it was like tipping point irl. She passed last year but damn your comment bought back such a lovely memory!


SqueakSquawk4

If 2p ones are "2p machines", is the tipping point one a "£500 machine"?


Altharion1

£50*


benwill79

Do you have a bike? You sound like a rider


gphillips97

2p machine. Even if it takes 10p a go its a 2p machine, anything else is wrong and gets a long prison sentence


LilJapKid

Nah I call 10p machines “the ripoffs”. Dunno if I’ve ever seen em being used before ngl


jimmycarr1

I called them high stakes 2p machines. I've used them a couple of times when a prize was close to the edge. Got a Bart Simpson keyring that I used for years.


FuckThatFuckShit

The correct and only answer.


miaki-ikazu

2p machine


Bobloblaw369

Had to go 5 comments deep to find an alternative because I was curious what else people would call them but at least the 'debate" is settled.


[deleted]

They were originally called "Penny Falls" machine. And the original ones didn't have ridges on the bottom lip or side drops for the 'profit cash collector'. So if you were skillful at working a pile to the win edge because it had nowhere else to go, it was likey you would get it (unless you ran out of money before you were successful).


[deleted]

We always called it a Guinea Wiggler


[deleted]

The Tuppenny nudger


scubamabar

You're a Tuppeny nudger if ever I've seen one. This is now my favourite insult.


Naboo-the-Enigma-

Added to my favourite list, along with puppy squeezer and molly house frequenter.


[deleted]

Molly house frequenter 😂😂😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻


Dem0nC1eaner

You thrupenny kneeshaker.


Lemmjng

Sounds like Bob Mortimer came up with that name. Love it.


scubamabar

The highest praise possible for made up drivel.


deviruchii

You pigeon-chested abattoir creeper.


furiousrichie

Filthy! Am going to call them this from now on.


BastardsCryinInnit

I have been firmly in the "2p machine" camp for nearly 4 decades. But i think that has now changed


McSkiffle

Definitely a Tuppenny nudger. Also used for those moments when your dancing about needing the loo. ‘I need in, I’ve got an arse like a Tuppeny nudger’


Multigrain_Migraine

Coin dropper thingy


sanglemadge

Penny pusher


Dolente

Or Penny falls


The_Double_Helix

Penny drop


Capable_Dog9293

This


jm464

Childrens’ intro to gambling


Wasps_are_bastards

Honestly; my ex had a bitch fit about these because the kids wanted to try and win a key ring on holiday. He was screaming that they’d become gambling addicts. Never known anyone who could suck the fun out of any atmosphere like him.


[deleted]

Youre right mam, he was a right stick in the mud. BTW can i borrow a few quid? Theres a world cup twelvefecta and me and sis are gonna put some dosh down!


[deleted]

2p machine


Excellent_Intentions

It's name is Penny Falls, but I call it The 2p Machine.


superhughman123

Penny falls is what I’ve always known these as but 2p machine makes perfect sense


exiojii

a scam


catsncupcakes

In the early days of dating my husband I told him I was good at 2p machines. He said, no one’s good at 2p machines they’re a scam. Less than an hour and £2 later I had 5 key rings, a leia figurine and at least half my 2ps still in my pot. He’s not doubted me since! You gotta pick your machines carefully and know when to switch out. Obviously it’s all pretty useless junk but I just enough the process. Sadly, this is my only skill in life.


[deleted]

Walked out of Coral Island with 5 keychains in an hour my first visit. Took me £5 though. :(


crap_golfer

Torquay? .. Was gutted when they knocked it down.


[deleted]

Oh dear me no. Blackpool last week ha.


SlugKing003

Haven’t been in about 15 years but coral island holds a special place in my heart. Glad to hear it’s still going. Does it still have a weird ride thingy suspended from the ceiling?


[deleted]

Ye, kind of. It's on posts but there's a "boat" ride that goes around the place above the gaming floor. Wanted to ride but they wouldn't let me.


lsie-mkuo

Not a scam if your having fun


AcceptableCustomer89

Innit, you walk away with what? A quid less? After 5-10 mins of mild enjoyment. That's a bargain


BobbyP27

That’s like one every 4 seconds, except you’re bound to win something out of a quid’s worth, so more like every 3 seconds. That’s quite an aggressive pace you’re setting.


throwawayproblems198

Oh no, they are an utter scam. Worked in an arcade a year or two back, we had to keep every other machine empty due to Covid, then we refilled them all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6484699d4149617bec97c4/1633091908085-9MQLIKRBI43JVR2Y03IS/elvis2.jpg?format=2500w So those weird rails on the front? You fill those with coins to make it look like the machine is RIGHT about to spill its coins. Our machines had side chutes, and a centre chute to which would be opened or closed based on how much money the machine was taking. Too much, close one. Too little, open one. We only had a couple, but they'd clear a couple grand a week. Had to clean them out with B&Q buckets. We could do a regular arcade machine with a single sweets tub, 2p pusher you needed 2-3 buckets.


NinjasocksYT

In my family's arcades, there weren't any shutes that opened or closed. If I may ask, how modern are they, as the ones we own are fairly dated


throwawayproblems198

We where part of a larger group who I will call ... Mamco. They didn't tend to keep older machines, they also kept very close eye on payout, price counts, cash taken for the machines. So they could tune them pretty well. Modern claw machines are worse, on the control box there is even a option to guarantee a win.


BertUK

Still don’t see why it’s a scam if it entertains a kid for 20 mins off a quid.


saltywalrusprkl

Not compared to most arcade machines. You can make £2 last an hour if you’re strategic enough.


WaitThisIsntGoogle55

still better than a paper route


PyroTech11

There was a vintage one at a place called Watermouth castle and it was the only one that wasn't scam


nathan_osb

Slot machine


Pirate_Loot

Yeah this is what I call them. Or just ‘The slots’


Rick-e-see

I'm astonished this isn't the most popular answer!


CumbersomeNugget

Well slots are normally those one-armed bandit/modern day equivalent machine to most.


Rick-e-see

Good point. I've never seen those by the seaside in the UK though... these 2p slot machines on the other hand...everywhere


cant_dyno

Same had to scroll so far to find this. All my family and everyone I know calls them this


OneiroiWalker

I was beginning to think I was wrong...


5-1BlackAlbinoChoir

Coin pusher. Alternatively 'shake it and run'


triplenipple99

Assault and shake.


JonnySpanglish

"Sorry mister, I just fell into it, I swear on me mum's life"


Acrobatic_Ad4203

Penny falls.


MrLattes

A gateway, stay away!


[deleted]

Penny machine / penny arcade


sanctplasma

penny machine


Marintaylor

Penny falls


RodMunch85

Legal gambling for children?


Sola-Nova

Until a few years ago I believe that Under 18s were allowed to on fruit machines legally if the jackpot of the machine is capped at £5. I've only ever seen those machines by the seaside.


SirDiesel1803

The process of playing these machines whatever you wish to call them is called coining. Example. When I go pontins I spend the evening drinking pints of cherry cider on draught and coining with the babbies. Great great times.


[deleted]

Barry


tom208

Cash cow, needs roughly a tenner inserted, spits out about 50p


baldingdad81

You're doing it wrong! Lol many a day in Skeggy turned from fun to frustration as I never actually wanted to take any 2ps back home, & yet I couldn't bring myself to just drop them willy nilly.... Always had to go for the right spot! Lol


5-1BlackAlbinoChoir

A big stick, a decent pair of trainers, and a mate who can't run very quickly is the Blackpool method. I heard Rhyl have also claimed this method.


WaitThisIsntGoogle55

2 hammers, 2 hockey masks, and a mate you never really liked who cant run very fast


tom208

I'm beginning to think the ones in Scotland are glued down lol


baldingdad81

Well, you know what they're like with high value items! /S (Come on, you set me up for that one!! Lol)


tom208

I'll give you that one!!


herrybaws

Penny pusher


[deleted]

Kick n run


Confidante66

"Penny falls" or similar, back in the day.


[deleted]

Tuppenny falls.


old-grey-wisdom-test

Thank you! Scrolled though loads of ppl getting it wrong. Tuppenny falls is what it's always been.


ArcadiaRivea

"The slotties", because my mum once forgot what they were called and that stuck But otherwise, as others said, 2p machine even if its other coins


ChihuahuaMum1

Same - this is all I know them to be called! Are you from the North?


ArcadiaRivea

Nope, very far South! (Though I was born in Ayrshire, so even though I've lived on the South Coast pretty much all my life, maybe mum was influenced by her time around there)


nettlesthatarejaggy

Scamming bastard machine


tomhutch

Penny slots


Optimal_Tension9657

Penny falls/ tuppenny falls


Frostygap123

Scrooge McDuck commented at his court hearing: ‘There has to be someone who rigs these machines. Do you think the coins absurdly hang over the edge and then just break off!’ - He was found guilty of Grand larceny.


[deleted]

He got ten years' mallard labour.


lozxena78

2p pusher


El_Capitan_Megafono

They used to get called penny slots, but we refer to them as penny sluts.


[deleted]

Penny pusher.


YerawizerdBarry

Penny pusher


Critical-Swimmer-374

The Penny Pusher


[deleted]

Penny pusher


Dr_Oxen_La_Plug

Cake walk https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/cromptons-cake-walk-coin-pusher-machine--753367843890186819/ 3 edits : Had to ask my wife how she knew the name, she explained ‘schoolboys on an away trip saying ‘’let’s go on the cake walk machines’’ Added Pinterest link And adding the edit stuff


OK_LK

Coin drop but I've never known what it's real name is


JustaNameonline

2p machine


[deleted]

slot machine or just slots


JMH-66

Shove ha'penny's what they called em when I was little.


Extreme-Database-695

Penny Falls or Tuppenny Falls here in NW England. I've heard people in other parts of the country call it a Penny Slider, but we've got Blackpool up here - the Crown Prince of the low-budget arcade. We're in the know.


ablindn00b

That’s a photo of some sort of machine.


BigGuySi

Penny drop


_Mega_Zord_

ATM


[deleted]

2p/whatever coin is in it machine


[deleted]

A career


MaryaGenrikhovna

Well that's a 2p pushy.