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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