[llama_boy]

As someone who moved to the UK I find it crazy that 2p machines exist. You put 2p in, and hope to get more out. It's literally child gambling. Where I come from we had arcades with tickets for stuff, but to me that's a whole different level to money in -> money out.

I still enjoy them though, but I enjoy gambling responsibly!

[giobox]

These machines exist a lot in the USA/other countries too, typically called a coin pusher:

> https://bhmvending.com/collections/coin-pushers

While it won't be true for all kids, personally I felt coin pushers taught me an important lesson about the drawbacks of gambling at a young age - it's obvious even to many children how rigged the penny pusher is. My own son had similar thoughts after a quick try of one too.