Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Just one more



Here's Sam trying her hand at the darts-to-pop-balloons game at the local fair.  The rules are the same as in the States - you purchase x number of darts, and you must pop x balloons for a large prize, but you always seem to pop x-1 balloons or less.  And if you pop x darts, then maybe the carney (are they called that in Thailand?  they certainly have more teeth than US carnies I've dealt with - is there a different name for them here?  perhaps the Thai word for 'tooth' combined with 'carney'?) didn't quite see it all.  Or maybe a previously-unseen bag suddenly appears, and it turns out that you just won one small toy, and must now win 3 small toys which can be traded in for 3 medium toys which can then be traded for 3 large toys that you can then trade for 1 of the jumbo toys that you have your eye on.

Anyhow, Sam popped x-1 balloons, and won a previously unseen small toy.  I believe she let the nice tooth-endowed carnie keep the small toy.  I think that puts him one closer to the medium toy, but he looked surprisingly nonplussed.

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