If you're playing the ones with "prizes" balanced on the money,
then you're a fool - they're less likely to pay out than the regular machines. I've spent many an afternoon playing those games, and have rarely left out of pocket - often, you can just go in, find a 2p in the draw (someone always misses one) and have an afternoon of free fun. Even if you don't win, you're not exactly losing anything.
Stay clear of the 10p ones, though - they're just a good way to make yourself poor (and they ALWAYS have prizes stacked on the money, all the better to tempt the greedy).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 19:56, 1 reply)

yeah, i never touch the 10p ones
there was one in towyn that nobody ever went into. i put about 4 coins in it and practically emptied the machine! the bloke in there was a laugh, he was bored stiff and i ended up spending most of the day in there with him, drinking tea and eating broken rock :)
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:00, closed)