u/Ok-Representative266

So I’m from the Bay Area with four stores, and each one has its own pluses and minuses. My friend and I both like cranes, figures, and coin pushers, and we’ve found varying settings, games, and prize inventory at each location. We go **a lot** to Round1 and have accumulated a lot of prizes and cashed in a lot of tickets.

We’ve gotten 2 ps5 and 1 switch 2 at SF. Smaller prizes have been a record player, the switch 2 controller, a honeymaru battery charger, a honeymaru duck, the weekender bag, both recently released Miku glass cups—that’s all I can recall, and I still have 64k in tickets and my roomie about 15k. I didn’t take photos of my winnings today, but I took some photos proving this is a terrible older millennial money addiction for me and I’m not a reseller. We have a lot of fun, the staff are all pretty great, and I like to go to destress.

**But now I know Roseville might be the best one I’ll ever see!** So, I was in Sacramento and I’d seen the better club pricing which still hasn’t come to our locations. Plus one.

It’s a very large location—easy plus two, especially when it’s filled with machines that are overwhelmingly in service.

Three, every coin pusher had cards on it. So, I was earlier in the afternoon when they opened, but every pusher had 4 cards already on it. Popeye was down, but the net bonus was 1500 (when it’s a *pathetic* 100 at every Bay location and a high bonus). I played smash stadium and got the rare and Godzilla. While I didn’t get the rare, for some reason, I just felt like it moved the cards faster??

Biggest plus is that settings were amazing. From the mini Geminis with 1000 credits, I was able to win: Sailor Jupiter, a boba cat, small deer, showering teddy bear. From the large machines, I won on first play both a Miffy and the Blue Angel Gloomy Bear. (Also pls don’t think I’m just a greedy monster or a reseller, Sailor Jupiter is going to a friend, Miffy to my niece, and everything to my roomie but the little teddy bear—I swear I’m not selfish, this is just for the addiction of the rush with adult money. It’s a whole other problem lol). I also won the new Neko and the Chocolate Miku. It’s hard to illustrate how fast I was able to win these, because I know people will look at the fact I spent like 1000 credits and be like yeesh, but I probably spent at least 500 just on Super Smash and Godzilla. I also spent the most on the Mikus for the plays—maybe about another 250 there (only minus, their ping pong ball games were hardest but still not my worst ever). And I also played for other plushes I didn’t win several times. So in reality, I feel like winning that many, in part because there are so many machines, but so quickly is indicative of the fact that their settings might be some of the easiest I’ve encountered. I could have had a weird lucky day, but some part of me just thinks maybe now the settings at all my 4 stores are just harder. Idk.

Idk if anybody else has tested other locations they think are amazing, compared to the new discussion of all the new dollar tree Round1’s we’re seeing 🙄, but I’m happy to hear it and give whatever insight I can for all the Bay Area ones. I didn’t take a photo of my winnings today but some proof of the fact I truly travel to quite a few R1s regularly.