This crazy excuse for a game makes me envision the following variation on a theme: only prime numbers (11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47) count for points.
I read a comment on a different video where someone said that same bastard who was running the scam at the comic con in colorado springs got caught and arrested at rhode island comic con
I ran across a Razzle Dazzle scam once, before I had ever heard of it. It was at this really sketchy looking pop up market inside an old closed down grocery store. I stopped in because I was wondering what was going on in this storefront that hadn't had a business in it for 7 years. The place was half full with a booths of sketchy looking people selling questionable items. lots of cheaply made hats with glued on mirror squares spelling words, used TVs, (thinking back they were probably stolen) and counterfeit game consoles running unlicensed roms of Super Mario Brothers and other NES Games. I found the whole thing a bit amusing and was walking around looking at all the odd angles people were working while trying to make a quick buck. While browsing a woman asked me if I wanted a free turn at their game. I was a bit taken aback by how forward she was and decided to see what she was talking about. I was led through an artificial corridor made by curtains hanging on poles and around a corner to a counter with a man standing behind it. behind him were the prizes. Brand new TVs, stereos and gaming consoles. When I got there he asked me to pick a prize. I picked out a TV as I was in the market for one at the time anyway. Instead of a board with marbles he had a dart board laying face up on the counter. It had a piece of paper with a grid of numbers laying on top of said dart board. He hands me a hand full of darts and has me drop them all at once onto the grid of numbered squares below. The object here was to get to 100 pts. That is all he told be before my first drop. He let me know my first two drops were free. I dropped the darts once and he quickly announced I had won 10 points. I dropped them a second time, once again he picked them up quickly exclaiming I had won 25 pts this time. It was Only now he showed me the grid and explained how the scoring worked. I'm glad to say that I realized something was off about the whole thing and I walked away without spending any money. I had a feeling this was a scam for several reasons. For one I noticed there was no way he could actually be counting all the values from my darts throw. He picked them up before I could even tell where two of them landed and secondly I was over a quarter of the way to the goal after just two drops and i guessed there is no way he could afford to hand out these prizes at this rate so surmised there had to be a catch. The final and biggest reason i walked away was because I didn't have time to fully understand the full rules of the game. I should note that this all took place in the USA where this game is illegal. The whole pop up market was raided by the my states Bureau of Investigation (for those of you outside the USA that's like the FBI but on the state level instead of national level) the very next day and the whole operation was shut down. I just wish I had seen this video so I could have called the guy out on it right on the spot.
I'm very good at basic math. If someone tries to add things up faster than me, like a cashier, I always tell them to hang on while I do the math in my head. I've caught people short changing me in the past.
I’ve been asked to play this in New Orleans. When I announced - rather loudly - that it was a con, I was asked by a group of three to go elsewhere - if you know what I mean.
ye it got illegalized in the U.S. Due to some legal holes, some carnivals can still run this game, but it's only in particular circumstances that dodge the law. Bottom-line, no one should play this game or anything similar if they see it out there.
I fell for this exact same scam in my mid twenties around twenty something years ago and was rooked out of $300! That was enough to teach me a lesson I've never forgotten and haven't gambled or been suckered into games like this ever again!
I found it interesting that the kid was a student, but it wasn't until the 4th prize choice that he picked something that could actually be used for studying (a laptop)... especially considering he was, according to him, using his student loan money to play.
Well you _CAN_ win at the Razzle Dazzle (particularly if given a significant boost), just chances are _incredibly_ against you; it's worse than buying lottery tickets or playing slots. However even if you win there's a _chance_ (not necessarily that high, since if people discover it they could call the police) that the prizes aren't even real.
You really can't, it's impossible to get ANY points while counting correctly. The only way to get points is thru a fake (or just mistaken) count. The numbers on the chart that actually score points, are mathematically impossible to get with 8 marbles, no matter where the marbles land.
No, if it was impossible, that would be too easy to identify and involve the authorities. It is just incredibly unlikely. In a pinch of someone is getting that last point, just miscount it fast like you've been doing all along, though usually in the players favor.
@@jsrodman Nope, impossible. The point scoring totals are impossible to get with 8 marbles, and with the slots available on the board. Take "44" as an example: Seems simple, four marbles on 6s, four on 5s. Except ther are only THREE 5s on the board. All the point scorers run into the problem of either needing 1 more, or 1 less marble, OR needing more of a certain digit than is available on the board. This game is highly illegal, at least in the US and Canada, because there's not even a sliver of legitimate chance.
@@CancerArpegius Lol. Nice dedication. Maybe in a variant of the game, it's possible. But I suggest you watch the video by "Numberphile" on the subject. If the board is designed the way it has been traditionally, it is literally mathematically impossible to score actual points toward your goal. The person running the game intentionally miscounts the dice rolls early on, to give the impression you are scoring points. If you "won", the board was not designed correctly. (I explained this in an above comment - it's impossible to roll certain numbers with the given amount of dice - those are the "points" numbers)
@@CancerArpegius If the board is set up like that. But if the board is set up the original way, you can ONLY score points by a miscount of the dice. Modern versions probably give you a very minute chance of scoring a point, so that it's technically a game of chance. But I guarantee the operators use the "miscounts" early to make the odds seem better for the player (as they do in this video)
It's actually not legal in many places (namely the UK I think where it originated as far as I know). It's probably signicantly due to the fact that lying is used to cheat people from their money, but also that mathematically the odds of ever winning without paying 10 times or hundreds of times the value of the prizes is virtually zero. Such _EXTREMELY_ terrible odds (and by odds I mean average loss percentage per roll, which is pretty much 100%) make sense to be illegal.
How does that guy even sleep at night? I would never be able to do a job like that, I would just walk around all day thinking... "Man, I make a living being a complete scumbag"
There are whole groups of people in this world that walk around thinking 'how do I extract money from these people and not get caught.' Its like those the fake beggars with injuries that look so miserable and have really well done fake stories, but if you see them at the end of the night or follow them around a corner they are suddenly cured. They have a totally different mindset then you, they don't see it as being a scumbag, they see it as opportunity.
I think it was "Yellow Kid" Weil that said something to the effect that people who get suckered into cons deserve it because of their greed for money and material things.
It honestly blew my mind when he said he would miscount on purpose to make the person believe they scored 5 points. I never considered that they would lie and trickle points to the participant at frequent-enough intervals to keep them interested while also being able to control how close to 10 points they actually get.
Reflectedpower ... So, just to make sure, you thought that carnival workers were honest people, right? Mathematically? It would take about 5,000 rolls to win.
3DayPriest while the rules themselves are fishy, they're laid out exactly how they should be . Miscounting like that makes it lose any credibility, no matter what the game
Play this but with fake currency. Then after you've spent around 200, The cops that you called 20 minutes ago show up to inspect the booth for counterfeiting.
If you're going to gamble, make it Poker or some similar game. In poker, you're playing the other players, not the house. Theres no reason for the house to cheat, it wins by taking a rake of each pot, they could care less who wins.
@@ExplosionChimp The house could care less? I'm curious... how much less could they care? A lot less or just a little bit less? (Maybe you mean they could not care less.)
The Razzle is the only carnival game to be banned in the entire world! www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/b2vz1t/the_razzle_is_the_only_carnival_game_to_be_banned/
I always wondered how they always seem to get 5 points at the start - here, it's obvious; the scammer points out the score chart to the player, who stares at it while he does an inflated count
@ it doesnt matter at all, if you count the points you will ALWAYS miss the numbers. only a MISSCOUNT by the dealer will give you points. so giving you points is the cheat. its impossible to get points by playing. taking photos would only add up to: oh you missed, you didnt get anything. every single time.
@ start watching @ 3:45 ... @ 4:17 he says ". .. if i dont do that [misscounting to give you points] you get nothing on every single roll ..." did i misunderstood something? he clearly says you CANT win since you CANT EVEN GET POINTS. the only way you get points is by him giving you them by misscounting.
because ODDS ARE you would get nothing. its technically possible to win but the odds are so incredibly low of you doing it that you can "effectively" say you are never going to. technically its possible for all the atoms in your body to move in the same direction at the same time and launch you into out space. ever seen it happen? THAT's the point. the odds are SO stacked against you your chances are effectively zero even though technically mathematically its possible. @@yabeeba_com
@ yeah im gonna side with the guys going through the effort of making a documentary and explaining to the public in detail how the scam works, instead of taking random youtube commentaries making assumptions as truth.
@ im not denying that there may be different versions of this game, and it is possible there are versions where you can get points. i am talking about the most crucial version of this, the one explained in the video the whole discussion is about and in which he clearly states you cant get points unless by a misscount.
Still find it funny that they say a ps3 is a top of the range games console, back then it was but now we cooking on ps5 power👌👌
You sound like a degenerate.
Razzle Dazzle is a gambling game in which the player has essentially no chance of winning without the operator letting him win.
This crazy excuse for a game makes me envision the following variation on a theme: only prime numbers (11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47) count for points.
POOR KID.
It’s a safe bet that if something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is.
What is the name of the song at 0:38 ? Does anyone know plz? Thx in advance! 🙏 😊
Razzal Dazzel Hulabaloo, one for me and none for you.
I used to watch this show so much back in the day
This is a good example of the sunk cost fallacy in action.
I lost $2000 to this game a few days ago at comic con at Colorado Springs
No way, that much?? Wow! That’s crazy
@@buzattopedro yeah, I had money to burn and I was at like a point away for so long. Felt like I was gonna give up for no reason if I walked away.
breeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh
I read a comment on a different video where someone said that same bastard who was running the scam at the comic con in colorado springs got caught and arrested at rhode island comic con
I ran across a Razzle Dazzle scam once, before I had ever heard of it. It was at this really sketchy looking pop up market inside an old closed down grocery store. I stopped in because I was wondering what was going on in this storefront that hadn't had a business in it for 7 years. The place was half full with a booths of sketchy looking people selling questionable items. lots of cheaply made hats with glued on mirror squares spelling words, used TVs, (thinking back they were probably stolen) and counterfeit game consoles running unlicensed roms of Super Mario Brothers and other NES Games. I found the whole thing a bit amusing and was walking around looking at all the odd angles people were working while trying to make a quick buck. While browsing a woman asked me if I wanted a free turn at their game. I was a bit taken aback by how forward she was and decided to see what she was talking about. I was led through an artificial corridor made by curtains hanging on poles and around a corner to a counter with a man standing behind it. behind him were the prizes. Brand new TVs, stereos and gaming consoles. When I got there he asked me to pick a prize. I picked out a TV as I was in the market for one at the time anyway. Instead of a board with marbles he had a dart board laying face up on the counter. It had a piece of paper with a grid of numbers laying on top of said dart board. He hands me a hand full of darts and has me drop them all at once onto the grid of numbered squares below. The object here was to get to 100 pts. That is all he told be before my first drop. He let me know my first two drops were free. I dropped the darts once and he quickly announced I had won 10 points. I dropped them a second time, once again he picked them up quickly exclaiming I had won 25 pts this time. It was Only now he showed me the grid and explained how the scoring worked. I'm glad to say that I realized something was off about the whole thing and I walked away without spending any money. I had a feeling this was a scam for several reasons. For one I noticed there was no way he could actually be counting all the values from my darts throw. He picked them up before I could even tell where two of them landed and secondly I was over a quarter of the way to the goal after just two drops and i guessed there is no way he could afford to hand out these prizes at this rate so surmised there had to be a catch. The final and biggest reason i walked away was because I didn't have time to fully understand the full rules of the game. I should note that this all took place in the USA where this game is illegal. The whole pop up market was raided by the my states Bureau of Investigation (for those of you outside the USA that's like the FBI but on the state level instead of national level) the very next day and the whole operation was shut down. I just wish I had seen this video so I could have called the guy out on it right on the spot.
I'm very good at basic math. If someone tries to add things up faster than me, like a cashier, I always tell them to hang on while I do the math in my head. I've caught people short changing me in the past.
how did they get all those camera angles?
I’ve been asked to play this in New Orleans. When I announced - rather loudly - that it was a con, I was asked by a group of three to go elsewhere - if you know what I mean.
For one you don’t play kids oh you forgot to say that I never did like 10points I like 100 yards same game
The youtube channel of this show: ua-cam.com/users/TheRealHustleOfficialvideos
Somebody was doing this at bubbafest and got busted
This is why you an never win this 'game': ua-cam.com/video/527F51qTcTg/v-deo.html
He was soo close !!
So close to loosing more
It takes a very clever arsehole to create this game, and a real dickhead to operate it
It would have been funny if he got lucky and won.
The odds are lower than you think
This game just became popular in Mexico people are popping up everywhere. In Mexico they call it , El juego de las canicas
This is illegal in the USofA
ye it got illegalized in the U.S. Due to some legal holes, some carnivals can still run this game, but it's only in particular circumstances that dodge the law. Bottom-line, no one should play this game or anything similar if they see it out there.
That game is a hustlers paradise
"Chances of winning are nil" Well that's not true, would just take a few thousand tries.
Yes, but the 29 result means you cound never afford those few thousand.
@@jsrodman A wild Bill Gates appears!
I fell for this exact same scam in my mid twenties around twenty something years ago and was rooked out of $300! That was enough to teach me a lesson I've never forgotten and haven't gambled or been suckered into games like this ever again!
I found it interesting that the kid was a student, but it wasn't until the 4th prize choice that he picked something that could actually be used for studying (a laptop)... especially considering he was, according to him, using his student loan money to play.
This game seems to be some kind of bug exploit for the human brain. (I wonder what the bug is, exactly?)
The exploit of not understanding standard deviation and how to add
Skinner's Box. It works in non-human brains as well, with levers, sugar pellets and electric shocks.
Play stupid games...win stupid prizes
The prizes aren't, you just don't win them,
Yooooo! I remember watching the show when I was a kid, this brings back memories the show is called the real Hustle😀😲
But how the fuck does it work. You never actually explained or demonstrated the deception. .
(5:22) "I'll go for the wee" "My girlfriend wants a wee." *_Priceless_* .
Well you _CAN_ win at the Razzle Dazzle (particularly if given a significant boost), just chances are _incredibly_ against you; it's worse than buying lottery tickets or playing slots. However even if you win there's a _chance_ (not necessarily that high, since if people discover it they could call the police) that the prizes aren't even real.
You really can't, it's impossible to get ANY points while counting correctly. The only way to get points is thru a fake (or just mistaken) count. The numbers on the chart that actually score points, are mathematically impossible to get with 8 marbles, no matter where the marbles land.
No, if it was impossible, that would be too easy to identify and involve the authorities. It is just incredibly unlikely. In a pinch of someone is getting that last point, just miscount it fast like you've been doing all along, though usually in the players favor.
@@jsrodman Nope, impossible. The point scoring totals are impossible to get with 8 marbles, and with the slots available on the board. Take "44" as an example: Seems simple, four marbles on 6s, four on 5s. Except ther are only THREE 5s on the board. All the point scorers run into the problem of either needing 1 more, or 1 less marble, OR needing more of a certain digit than is available on the board. This game is highly illegal, at least in the US and Canada, because there's not even a sliver of legitimate chance.
@@CancerArpegius Lol. Nice dedication. Maybe in a variant of the game, it's possible. But I suggest you watch the video by "Numberphile" on the subject. If the board is designed the way it has been traditionally, it is literally mathematically impossible to score actual points toward your goal. The person running the game intentionally miscounts the dice rolls early on, to give the impression you are scoring points. If you "won", the board was not designed correctly. (I explained this in an above comment - it's impossible to roll certain numbers with the given amount of dice - those are the "points" numbers)
@@CancerArpegius If the board is set up like that. But if the board is set up the original way, you can ONLY score points by a miscount of the dice. Modern versions probably give you a very minute chance of scoring a point, so that it's technically a game of chance. But I guarantee the operators use the "miscounts" early to make the odds seem better for the player (as they do in this video)
Gotta love The Real Hustle. I watch a lot of episodes.
How about throwing the marbles and his face and scream Razzle Dazzle! Instant winner
There are easier ways to kill yourself.
How is this even legal?? XD
It's actually not legal in many places (namely the UK I think where it originated as far as I know). It's probably signicantly due to the fact that lying is used to cheat people from their money, but also that mathematically the odds of ever winning without paying 10 times or hundreds of times the value of the prizes is virtually zero. Such _EXTREMELY_ terrible odds (and by odds I mean average loss percentage per roll, which is pretty much 100%) make sense to be illegal.
It's illegal in the US too
More importantly, who's the hot chick in the booth?
Jessica Jane Clement
How does that guy even sleep at night? I would never be able to do a job like that, I would just walk around all day thinking... "Man, I make a living being a complete scumbag"
There are whole groups of people in this world that walk around thinking 'how do I extract money from these people and not get caught.' Its like those the fake beggars with injuries that look so miserable and have really well done fake stories, but if you see them at the end of the night or follow them around a corner they are suddenly cured. They have a totally different mindset then you, they don't see it as being a scumbag, they see it as opportunity.
If it helps, that guy is a professional magician and is demonstrating the scam to help people be aware of it and not get caught!
I think it was "Yellow Kid" Weil that said something to the effect that people who get suckered into cons deserve it because of their greed for money and material things.
It honestly blew my mind when he said he would miscount on purpose to make the person believe they scored 5 points. I never considered that they would lie and trickle points to the participant at frequent-enough intervals to keep them interested while also being able to control how close to 10 points they actually get.
Reflectedpower ... So, just to make sure, you thought that carnival workers were honest people, right? Mathematically? It would take about 5,000 rolls to win.
3DayPriest while the rules themselves are fishy, they're laid out exactly how they should be . Miscounting like that makes it lose any credibility, no matter what the game
I know the game now that I lost $300
@@3daypriestNah even after 5 million rolls you never can win, hustlers always win
Play this but with fake currency. Then after you've spent around 200, The cops that you called 20 minutes ago show up to inspect the booth for counterfeiting.
Welcome to gambling, where the odds are fixed and you lose every time
If you're going to gamble, make it Poker or some similar game. In poker, you're playing the other players, not the house. Theres no reason for the house to cheat, it wins by taking a rake of each pot, they could care less who wins.
That's not gambling. Gambling implies you can actually win.
@@ExplosionChimp The house could care less? I'm curious... how much less could they care? A lot less or just a little bit less? (Maybe you mean they could not care less.)
Some things never change.
The Razzle is the only carnival game to be banned in the entire world! www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/b2vz1t/the_razzle_is_the_only_carnival_game_to_be_banned/
Nice
"It's cool"
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I always wondered how they always seem to get 5 points at the start - here, it's obvious; the scammer points out the score chart to the player, who stares at it while he does an inflated count
This happened to me in Ga discount mall.
FIND THEM AND SHOOT THEM
@@obeseperson break into their house and steal their toilet paper...
Ask the scammer to let you count the marble points with them. Or use your phone to take a photo each time and fact check them. Slow down the hustle.
@ it doesnt matter at all, if you count the points you will ALWAYS miss the numbers. only a MISSCOUNT by the dealer will give you points. so giving you points is the cheat. its impossible to get points by playing. taking photos would only add up to: oh you missed, you didnt get anything. every single time.
@ start watching @ 3:45 ... @ 4:17 he says ". .. if i dont do that [misscounting to give you points] you get nothing on every single roll ..." did i misunderstood something? he clearly says you CANT win since you CANT EVEN GET POINTS. the only way you get points is by him giving you them by misscounting.
because ODDS ARE you would get nothing. its technically possible to win but the odds are so incredibly low of you doing it that you can "effectively" say you are never going to. technically its possible for all the atoms in your body to move in the same direction at the same time and launch you into out space. ever seen it happen? THAT's the point. the odds are SO stacked against you your chances are effectively zero even though technically mathematically its possible. @@yabeeba_com
@ yeah im gonna side with the guys going through the effort of making a documentary and explaining to the public in detail how the scam works, instead of taking random youtube commentaries making assumptions as truth.
@ im not denying that there may be different versions of this game, and it is possible there are versions where you can get points. i am talking about the most crucial version of this, the one explained in the video the whole discussion is about and in which he clearly states you cant get points unless by a misscount.
I hate these people...they are at the flea mkt and always ripping ppl off