Halloween

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How are everybody's Halloween?  Mine was great.  I went to the San Martin park to volunteer at their events (gotta get those service hours for college application).  We were supposed to watch over the game booths and give the candies to the kids as prizes if they won the game.  They gave us a bag full of candies and told us that we can keep any leftover if there's any.  Anyway, I was determined to get some candies home because apparently, I'm too old for trick-or-treating.

I start my plan of getting candies by picking the booth of this one game called "planko".  If you don't know what that is, it's basically just a game where you drop the coins like game pieces from the top of the board and let it hit the pins on the way down, and see which box it ended up.  Due to the nature of the events, every kid who played the game get at least one candy, but due to the way this game work, you can earn up to three candies each try.

We have about ten minutes to do whatever we want before the event start, so I start to mess around with the game board.  Because of this, I figured out that the pins on the board can be moved, so I rearranged them the way that you can win the three candies prize, it just that you have to hit a specific pin near the top in order to win it.  The thing is, though, people who played games in this events are mostly five and six years olds who are not tall enough to reach that spot.

The result was a success, throughout the entire time, only three people won three candies prizes, two of those are fully grown adults who played for their kids, everybody else only got one or two candies.

Anyway, I felt pretty great until I woke up the next day, thinking that I literally just cheated a bunch of preschoolers out of their candies, on Halloween.  Although, I changed forget those thought pretty quick when I see a bag full of hundreds of candies.