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jimdalva

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Carnival casino doesnt pay. While on the Paradise a machine called the Cash Vault was very popular. You had to control the mechanical arm to go over ,then up to line up a key with a key shaped window. Once lined up you push the button and your key pushes foward and hopefully passes thru the window. Inside the window it then pushes a bundle of $500.00 plus an IPad off the hook and it falls to the bottom to be claimed, like a vending machine. There was always a line to try ones skill. You would get so close that you had to try again. Well on the second to last day someone finally got the key to pass thru the window. To the surprise of the entire crowd it didn't have the strength to unseat the prize. A casino employee was called, and he said Sorry it has to fall. A manager was called and said the same. Everyone complained that this is a game of skill to control the mechanical arm not a game of faith to hope that the prize is not tied so tight that the game is UNwinable. But to no avail, there was NO pay out. Beware!

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Carnival casino doesnt pay. While on the Paradise a machine called the Cash Vault was very popular. You had to control the mechanical arm to go over ,then up to line up a key with a key shaped window. Once lined up you push the button and your key pushes foward and hopefully passes thru the window. Inside the window it then pushes a bundle of $500.00 plus an IPad off the hook and it falls to the bottom to be claimed, like a vending machine. There was always a line to try ones skill. You would get so close that you had to try again. Well on the second to last day someone finally got the key to pass thru the window. To the surprise of the entire crowd it didn't have the strength to unseat the prize. A casino employee was called, and he said Sorry it has to fall. A manager was called and said the same. Everyone complained that this is a game of skill to control the mechanical arm not a game of faith to hope that the prize is not tied so tight that the game is UNwinable. But to no avail, there was NO pay out. Beware!

 

The Cash Vault is definitely winnable. We were watching when a player scored the iPad last month on Valor. By the end of the cruise, the vault was pretty much cleaned out.

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I've seen lots of people win on every cruise...including the Paradise earlier this year. I've actually watched people win the big prize and it has never had an issue pushing it off. Gues it is kind of like hitting a big win on a slot machine (in ANY casino..), if they inspect the machine and say it was a fault and you should not have won...not much you can do about it. I agree it is a crock though and they should win!

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These machines are not games of skill.

 

In addition to actually performing the action perfectly, the machine must "allow" you to win, so to speak. It's programmed to only allow 1 in x amount of tries to win, so just because you might perform the action correctly doesn't mean you will automatically win. I have seen it happen and did some research on those types of machines when I got home.

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I like playing that game and I did notice some issues with it on the Victory 2 weeks ago.

 

1. A customer stopped pushing the UP button, but it continued to rise....3 times in a row.

2. I had it aligned, but at the last second, it adjusted up so the prize was not attainable.

 

I figured it had to do with being the "lucky" person, not the skilled, so I would put in $3 here and $3 there, hoping my chance was next. I was never the winner, but like most everyone else, I was "THAT CLOSE!".

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I threw $20 in the machine and quickly realized that all is not what it seems. If you are too low, the mechanical arm releases immediately, but if you are dead on, there is a hesitation after you stop pressing the button before the arm releases.

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I have seen people throw money at this machine over and over! It was nothing to watch people drop $30+ at a time. But I also know that the machine was cleaned out by the end of our 4 days on Elation last Feb.

 

I so agree it's more skill than luck but isn't that any gambling game?

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They were winning on the Fascination in Oct, they even gave free try's, all we had to do was got to the cashier window and they were giving out these bills for a free try at this machine. By the end of the cruise the machine was almost empty.

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Carnival casino doesnt pay. While on the Paradise a machine called the Cash Vault was very popular. You had to control the mechanical arm to go over ,then up to line up a key with a key shaped window. Once lined up you push the button and your key pushes foward and hopefully passes thru the window. Inside the window it then pushes a bundle of $500.00 plus an IPad off the hook and it falls to the bottom to be claimed, like a vending machine. There was always a line to try ones skill. You would get so close that you had to try again. Well on the second to last day someone finally got the key to pass thru the window. To the surprise of the entire crowd it didn't have the strength to unseat the prize. A casino employee was called, and he said Sorry it has to fall. A manager was called and said the same. Everyone complained that this is a game of skill to control the mechanical arm not a game of faith to hope that the prize is not tied so tight that the game is UNwinable. But to no avail, there was NO pay out. Beware!

Definitely winnable....we were on a B2B on the Liberty last month and during our time in the casino, probably saw 4 of them won.

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While I don't doubt that people have won playing this game, I assume Carnival slowly empties the machine throughout the cruise to keep people thinking it's winnable and therefore spending more money. Between ourselves and our friends on Valor this year, we put a lot of money in that machine. I have to admit it's fun.

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lady_cruiser

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The way we look at it is that if we go into a casino, land-based or ship based, and we have fun then we got our money's worth. Casino to us is just another form of entertainment. We go in knowing we won't win and have no expectations.

 

I have seen us play with $50/ We have either lost it all in 20 minutes or played for hours with that same $50. It all comes down to what your attitude is when you walked into that casino.

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Gambling odds:

Vegas casino=good

Indian casino=bad

cruise ship=ugly

 

The way we look at it is that if we go into a casino, land-based or ship based, and we have fun then we got our money's worth. Casino to us is just another form of entertainment. We go in knowing we won't win and have no expectations.

 

I have seen us play with $50/ We have either lost it all in 20 minutes or played for hours with that same $50. It all comes down to what your attitude is when you walked into that casino.

 

Agree, lady_cruiser.

Agree to some extent, joeyancho...

However, I hit two big wins on the same machine two nights in a row on a Carnival cruise.

It really IS the luck of the draw. :)

 

The Vault was left with 1 prize at the end of our last cruise...saw a few win on it, not us tho......LOL

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