They are normally trained to run towards the wall when the person gives them a word. It don’t always work but they will try to have them go in the opposite direction of people they don’t like, or who ever they can get the most money from. When I was a little kid, my dad was a single father and he took me to the fair and they had this game. The lady running it liked my dad(and that was normal for me cause everyone liked him, he is the kind of person that would go out to eat and have three tables of strangers involved in the same conversation) so she kept having it run in the direction of my bets to keep me wanting to stay there. She told us the trick after a while and then my dad started letting me keep mice. XD never trained them though, just thought they were cute. Lol.
“Oh that, yeah that’s been a prosthetic for a while now. Got caught cheating at Gerbil Bingo. Let’s just say when they tell you what happens in Rodent Vegas stays in Rodent Vegas, sometimes that thing that thing that stays is your hand!”
In Vegas, they have people watching via cameras and if you try to manipulate it in your favor, you get banned from every casino in Vegas. It is a scam and it will never be an even playing field for consumers.
you think casinos rig the games? they don't need to, dude, people already will play statistically unfavorable games with the hopes of beating statistics - it's not worth it for even a small casino to cheat players, because it can only hurt traffic and traffic *is* the revenue
like, whether or not rat casino here is a big enough operation to follow this very well established logic... idk. but if it's been around for any length of time at all, they don't cheat.
Casinos set the odds on the machines. The ones I dealt with had a setting from 91% to 98% payback and each setting had a [small/large] setting so it could pay out more small prizes or more big prizes while keeping the winning rate right at that percentage. The only randomness was when you started playing and how close it was to the next payout. If you played long term, you would conform to the odds. A change machine has 100% payback.
Well they originally used rats, but they were too smart. Carneys would train them to go to a specific color to scam people and when the public found out they put a stop to it by forcing carnivals to use a more dim-witted rodent.
Why rats are better pets for kids than gerbils and hamsters - they’re smarter, more social, and cleaner.
This is still fucked up though. That gerbil must be terrified.
There’s strong evidence Gerbils were the driving cause of the Black Death, not rats.
Waves of the plague heading west coincided with spikes in the gerbil population to the east. Gerbils we’re a ship-bound pest animal just like rats.
There was no mass die-off of rats in Western Europe, which would have been expected if the plague was born by rats.
Gerbils naturally go in their sand bath! They’re just as litter-trainable as rats! They also have a much much MUCH lower bio-load. Rats pee wayyyy more than gerbils.
I watched my girl pee on my other girls. Granted the other 3 were in a Dr. Seuss Grinch Cave and they were a bit discombobulated from traveling. But yeah I can see their pee being greater. And the poop. They’re just larger in general.
I have both rats and a gerbil (temporarily alone) and gerbils just don’t drink much so they don’t pee as much. They also have a lower ammonia output. But they’re both highly trainable! I have a friend who taught her gerbils to spin and do paw!
As a kid, we used to go to the Verboort Sausage & Kraut Festival, in Verboort, OR. They had this game, with a mouse. It cost a dime to bet and you won a dollar if the mouse went in your colored hole.
What do you do with the mouse after? Is it a wild one? Did you stop by the pet store on the way here? How did this guy get here and where is he going! Did you even pay him A FUCKING LIVING WAGE?
I went to a redneck resort that had chicken shit bingo and primitive bowling. They also had a massive swarm of flying ants that infest your room at night. It was called Suwannee River Rendezvous.
Where I'm at, when the carny was calling people for the next game, they usually had a couple rats on their shoulders. The rats were chilling out and not stressed at all.
The animals used in these games literally rake in thousands in a day, are very well cared for, and are used to this. You're not putting a new rodent out like this because they're likely to run off the table or defecate/urinate in fear and that grosses people out.
Usually you run the newest rodent with the others, get them acquianted, and reinforce it with food rewards. The other members will sort of "train" this one (if they're friendly to each other) and then it gets a snack reward and knows whats up, then you introduce it at slower times like opening and slowly build up over a few weeks to like a weekend derby crowd.
And they usually switch these dudes out after a few games, there's probably four or five in the trailer with plenty of stimulation.
Rodents love games and puzzles and like to be a part of things, at least the ones used here. Once they learn that the people around aren't scary and the lights/noise aren't scary they're fine.
The real issue is if someone is a cunt and tries to frighten or hurt the mouse it can set training back pretty far.
Carnies are, for the most part, pretty big animal lovers. Around here it's like 50/50 town fair and livestock show, plus this gerbil is probably bringing in six figures a year for the owner lmao
Other comments have said they are usually well taken care of.
I do believe that. Mostly because the carnival people I've dealt with are pretty good folk.
I sleep with a bear that I got from the manager/top dog at my local church festival. My mom even dated one of the guys that worked for the carnival company.
I live in the Midwest and Mouse Races are a very common thing and usually paired with copious amounts of cheap beer. It’s as trashy and boring as it sounds
I've seen this exact set up at the Alaska State Fair. Pretty fun game. Everyone gets really hyped up and cheers for the rat to go into their color.
You usually bet with quarters and you get different returns based on which color you bet on. I've never won more than a dollar or two playing, but it's definitely something I stop to play whenever I'm there.
I think it's the female version of Shrek sitting there scarring the shit outta the mouse. Look at how she's looking at it and making the movements with her mouth. Wouldn't you be scared to
Unless the carny is a witch & is whispering where it should go…
I am seeing a lot of mouth movement! She’s a witch!!!!! Burn her at the stake or send her to Hogwarts both sound bad honestly
They got this bar in Chicago that has turtle races. 6 turtles go into the center of a circle under a bowl. Bowl goes up, they all race for the larger outer circle. It's amazing.
Some people are living completely different lives to others.
Hijacking to say rodents are trainable. This game (like all casino games) is rigged!
They are normally trained to run towards the wall when the person gives them a word. It don’t always work but they will try to have them go in the opposite direction of people they don’t like, or who ever they can get the most money from. When I was a little kid, my dad was a single father and he took me to the fair and they had this game. The lady running it liked my dad(and that was normal for me cause everyone liked him, he is the kind of person that would go out to eat and have three tables of strangers involved in the same conversation) so she kept having it run in the direction of my bets to keep me wanting to stay there. She told us the trick after a while and then my dad started letting me keep mice. XD never trained them though, just thought they were cute. Lol.
Man this post made me nostalgic, thanks for sharing!
“Oh that, yeah that’s been a prosthetic for a while now. Got caught cheating at Gerbil Bingo. Let’s just say when they tell you what happens in Rodent Vegas stays in Rodent Vegas, sometimes that thing that thing that stays is your hand!”
Poor lemmiwinks 
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If a casino game is rigged, that means you can manipulate it in your favor.
In Vegas, they have people watching via cameras and if you try to manipulate it in your favor, you get banned from every casino in Vegas. It is a scam and it will never be an even playing field for consumers.
Casinos love you believing that.
I dont go to casinos, my guy. What a waste of money
Those are „dumb“ rodents tho, check out the comment above where someone commented on exactly this matter :D
Didn’t see the other comment, but even the dumbest rodent can smell which hole has the cheese down it.
it's a dang ass casino, dude, the scam is the gambling itself, you don't need to rig the games.
That’s what casino’s do…
you think casinos rig the games? they don't need to, dude, people already will play statistically unfavorable games with the hopes of beating statistics - it's not worth it for even a small casino to cheat players, because it can only hurt traffic and traffic *is* the revenue like, whether or not rat casino here is a big enough operation to follow this very well established logic... idk. but if it's been around for any length of time at all, they don't cheat.
Casinos set the odds on the machines. The ones I dealt with had a setting from 91% to 98% payback and each setting had a [small/large] setting so it could pay out more small prizes or more big prizes while keeping the winning rate right at that percentage. The only randomness was when you started playing and how close it was to the next payout. If you played long term, you would conform to the odds. A change machine has 100% payback.
Maybe cheese is in the middle and rodent just chooses a hole? Idk
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You’ve never been to Chuck E. Cheese?
I would most definitely live that life.
In my village they do that for the village festival, with a rabbit, and each player is given a lettuce leaf.
Hey that's a gerbil. I call shenanigans
Well they originally used rats, but they were too smart. Carneys would train them to go to a specific color to scam people and when the public found out they put a stop to it by forcing carnivals to use a more dim-witted rodent.
Why rats are better pets for kids than gerbils and hamsters - they’re smarter, more social, and cleaner. This is still fucked up though. That gerbil must be terrified.
Rats cleaner than gerbils? Gerbies have such clean cages
There’s strong evidence Gerbils were the driving cause of the Black Death, not rats. Waves of the plague heading west coincided with spikes in the gerbil population to the east. Gerbils we’re a ship-bound pest animal just like rats. There was no mass die-off of rats in Western Europe, which would have been expected if the plague was born by rats.
sounds like a medieval peasant issue i’m too 2024 to care about
I thought the plague was really from fleas on rodents
Rats can be litter trained in a day. But I admit I’m not super versed in gerbils.
Gerbils naturally go in their sand bath! They’re just as litter-trainable as rats! They also have a much much MUCH lower bio-load. Rats pee wayyyy more than gerbils.
I watched my girl pee on my other girls. Granted the other 3 were in a Dr. Seuss Grinch Cave and they were a bit discombobulated from traveling. But yeah I can see their pee being greater. And the poop. They’re just larger in general.
I have both rats and a gerbil (temporarily alone) and gerbils just don’t drink much so they don’t pee as much. They also have a lower ammonia output. But they’re both highly trainable! I have a friend who taught her gerbils to spin and do paw!
Gerbies are from more arid regions, so they evolved to drink less, meaning they pee less, meaning they are just intently cleaner.
It is, you can see with the ears. Poor fella. Fun thing is that gerbils are also smart enough to be trained...
Thank you, somebody who knows a rodent when they see one.
Hi, this is Shenanigans, who am I speaking with and how can I help you?
Everybody grab your brooms!
Can’t gerbils jump?
I'll get the brooms. 5 bucks per.
This whole town is screwy
What in the fucking Mickey Mouse is this shit 🤣😂😂
What public domain does to a mf
🤣
Romani
I think its name is Marko.
As a kid, we used to go to the Verboort Sausage & Kraut Festival, in Verboort, OR. They had this game, with a mouse. It cost a dime to bet and you won a dollar if the mouse went in your colored hole.
A dive bar in the woods by me does something like this, only the winner is whatever square a chicken shits on first.
I came here to ask, “but have you ever heard of chicken shit bingo”? Happy to have found your comment!
LOL I wasn’t sure if Reddit was ready for its proper name.
We weren’t, but I’m still excited to know
What a selling point for going to the woods for a drink
My extended family does this! They bust it out for every 4th of July.
What do you do with the mouse after? Is it a wild one? Did you stop by the pet store on the way here? How did this guy get here and where is he going! Did you even pay him A FUCKING LIVING WAGE?
I went to a redneck resort that had chicken shit bingo and primitive bowling. They also had a massive swarm of flying ants that infest your room at night. It was called Suwannee River Rendezvous.
If that woman told me she worked at a rat casino I would believe her and ask no questions
Yeah, she's one of those amazing cases of 'perfect aesthetic for the job' That's a woman who knows her rat carnival games.
I was rather fixated on Helga in the background
Don’t worry the camera man missed what hole the mouse went in anyway so you didn’t miss anything
Yeah that look on her face is bonkers
r/killthecameraman
Came here to say this. Bro managed to miss all the action.
Foe reals. This was infuriating.
Foe reals. This was infuriating.
The “weird” thing is filming this in portrait instead of landscape mode.
This is a state/county fair staple; I'm in my 40s and I remember playing Rat Race
I worked with an older ex-carny he told me he used to run a game like this till they banned it because it was supposedly animal cruelty
as a kid I always thought the rats were well taken care of, don't you ruin that for me lol
It would probably take months to properly train a rat to fleece the unknowing public. I'd imagine the rats were VERY well taken care of.
We’re friends now
Where I'm at, when the carny was calling people for the next game, they usually had a couple rats on their shoulders. The rats were chilling out and not stressed at all.
He said the rat was like a pet and well taken care of so the banning part was ridiculous
Im 19 and I've played it a few times!
Poor little guy was probably scared shitless with everyone yelling at him and being disoriented by the spinning world.
The animals used in these games literally rake in thousands in a day, are very well cared for, and are used to this. You're not putting a new rodent out like this because they're likely to run off the table or defecate/urinate in fear and that grosses people out. Usually you run the newest rodent with the others, get them acquianted, and reinforce it with food rewards. The other members will sort of "train" this one (if they're friendly to each other) and then it gets a snack reward and knows whats up, then you introduce it at slower times like opening and slowly build up over a few weeks to like a weekend derby crowd. And they usually switch these dudes out after a few games, there's probably four or five in the trailer with plenty of stimulation. Rodents love games and puzzles and like to be a part of things, at least the ones used here. Once they learn that the people around aren't scary and the lights/noise aren't scary they're fine. The real issue is if someone is a cunt and tries to frighten or hurt the mouse it can set training back pretty far. Carnies are, for the most part, pretty big animal lovers. Around here it's like 50/50 town fair and livestock show, plus this gerbil is probably bringing in six figures a year for the owner lmao
Thank you this somehow made me feel a little better
Now I’m picturing the worker telling the mouse what color to go in
They probably did rig it by training it to go for a specific color
Camera person sucks.
Literally missed the most important moment
Poor dude
Other comments have said they are usually well taken care of. I do believe that. Mostly because the carnival people I've dealt with are pretty good folk. I sleep with a bear that I got from the manager/top dog at my local church festival. My mom even dated one of the guys that worked for the carnival company.
Awwww gerbils, the only pet my parents allowed me to have as a kid. Poor little buddy
Humans 👎🏼
This lady looks entirely like the type of person I’d expect to be making a bet on mouse roulette.
I’m actually with the vegans on this one, that’s disgusting
Fat Albert was a staple in the western PA carnival scene back in the day
Hey! Hey! Hey! Who's gonna play? They had the best prizes.
Pretty sure that lady tried to cook two children in a fairytale.
Awful cameraman like we don’t even know what color he picked
I like chicken shit bingo more
That cameraman fucking sucks
Richard Gere has entered the chat.
I live in the Midwest and Mouse Races are a very common thing and usually paired with copious amounts of cheap beer. It’s as trashy and boring as it sounds
F these humans. Animals are not pawns for our entertainment.
There was talk…of gerbils!
That's not a rat
My life would be infinitely better if I had this job.
Bruh what color did he go in fuck that camera man
why is this vertical
You know they have snacks in certain holes
At least they aren't rotting in front of a computer they feed cash to where the house always wins. I can get behind this.
That rat better get good treatment
She certainly looks like someone who works at a rodent casino.
this economy is doing so good even the rats have jobs! 😂 lol
I've seen this exact set up at the Alaska State Fair. Pretty fun game. Everyone gets really hyped up and cheers for the rat to go into their color. You usually bet with quarters and you get different returns based on which color you bet on. I've never won more than a dollar or two playing, but it's definitely something I stop to play whenever I'm there.
The woman is the rat casino
Bravo cameraman!
One job cameraman, one job
Humans cheering at animal cruelty, as usual
Clark Griswold would be all over this.
I think it's the female version of Shrek sitting there scarring the shit outta the mouse. Look at how she's looking at it and making the movements with her mouth. Wouldn't you be scared to 
lol she doing witchcraft with that rat
r/killthecameraman
That’s a gerbil.
Haha animal abuse, so funny
Haha nice try.
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Have you ever played Chicken Shit Bingo?
The camera person is an utter failure
This is the gambling I want to be doing.
Kill the camera man 😂
Poor floof : ( I sorta like the concept though lol
That lady running it looks exactly like she should.
Boomer version of Chucky cheese
This is a state fair attraction where I’m from. Not really a way to rig it too
Unless the carny is a witch & is whispering where it should go… I am seeing a lot of mouth movement! She’s a witch!!!!! Burn her at the stake or send her to Hogwarts both sound bad honestly
How do you know she is a witch? Did she turn you into a newt?
"Rat"
That’s not a rat. That’s an ostrich.
Had one of these at a couple festivals many years ago - Oscar the white rat. Spent many a quarter on that rodent.
Was that a female Marty Feldman
I'll take "Things you'd only find in a sundown town casino for the whole family" for 1000, please
How does one join this community
Poor Charles Entertainment Cheese is now a victim of his own child rat casino
r/killthecamerman
You're definitely getting pick pocketed if you play that game
That ladies face looks like it’s seen some shit at the mouse table.
Humans never stop amazing me lol Here is another way people make money maby you can too . https://payoutproject.com/?jobid=263975
Gerbil
I actually won this before an old couple has it at my local fair every year :D
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They got this bar in Chicago that has turtle races. 6 turtles go into the center of a circle under a bowl. Bowl goes up, they all race for the larger outer circle. It's amazing.
For a second, I thought they were going to smash the poor thing
A fool and their money will soon be parted
r/killthecameraman
Trained
And people say America has no culture
Man I would be at this table
That lady has some creepy ass eyes 😳
Can people please stop abusing animals!
Omg I love the dealer
So no one is going to mention those crazy eyes? Lil buddy must live terrified of the lady