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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LockeTheGambit, post: 998169, member: 27054&quot;]I&#039;m a college student and I have to wait for long periods of time in between classes and for the bus ride back home. One day I decided to buy a drink from a vending machine and it turns out the drink was out of order so I got my change back. I always look at my change just in case I find a coin I want. I noticed that the coins I received were different from the ones I spent...</p><p><br /></p><p>This got me thinking. I decided to put random coins and just press the &quot;return change&quot; button. Most of the time I would get different coins. Turns out I could do this over and over until I got a coin I wanted, and the best part is that each vending machine has different coins in them generally. It became a game to me so I named it &quot;Coin Roulette.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some setbacks to the game though:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Some vending machine may malfunction and take your change, which is a hassle</p><p>- A lot of vending machines have a pretty limited amount of change in circulation, so often you will get the same coin(s) every once in a while.</p><p>-It can be tiresome after a while repeating the same task over and over again (you know, inserting coins and pressing the button to get your change back...rinse, wash, repeat...</p><p>-Vending machines automatically give a coin back of a larger denomination equal to many smaller valued coins you&#039;ve inserted (for example, if you put 3 dimes in, you&#039;ll always get back 1 quarter and 1 nickel, which isn&#039;t good if you&#039;re specifically trying to go for dimes that you want. Same goes for if you were to put in 2 nickels, you will get 1 dime). </p><p>-Never put the amount of change in that equals the price of a snack/drink. For some reason, on many occasions, the machine won&#039;t give your change back and you have no choice but to buy something.</p><p>-Vending machines never take pennies so you obviously can&#039;t shoot for any lucrative pennies at all. Nickels, dimes, and quarters only.</p><p>-You can get weird looks from others sometimes. Also, you may get interrupted when people need to buy something from a vending machine you&#039;re using.</p><p>-Worst of all, vending machines just don&#039;t yield very good rewards very often. However, that doesn&#039;t mean that you won&#039;t get anything good at all...</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though there are much better ways of getting coins, it&#039;s still a fun little game to play from time to time. The suspense of not knowing what you&#039;re going to get is what&#039;s really exciting about it. Best of all, you can do this with any vending machine at anywhere and anytime.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for my rewards, the best I&#039;ve ever gotten was a 1965 dime and 1968 S-mint nickel that looks almost new, and a Buffalo nickel (I&#039;m not kidding). When I got that Buffalo nickel randomly that made my week. I don&#039;t what are the chances of that. The only bad this is that it is very faded, to the point to where it is dateless, which is pretty common for that coin when in heavy circulation. Still, It&#039;s really cool. Still haven&#039;t gotten any silver dimes or quarters though. Those are so hard (I keep getting 1965 dimes and quarters. That date makes me so mad:headbang<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>-----------[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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