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by giobox 234 days ago
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.