Continuing my series of how to win guides, I'll wrap the shooting gallery section up with a brief mention of cork guns. These fire a small cork plug usually trying to knock a target down. Cork guns are cheap and cheerful, designed purely for fun, not as accurate target shooting devices, to this end there isn't really much you can do but point the gun in the vague direction of the target and pray. The corks are lightweight and tend to rise, so aiming low should give you a marginally better chance.



Rather than try and explain the workings of this machine, I have found a very good you tube video from braniacs, so click on the play button below and watch this. The second video is a clip giving tips on various games.





The armchair experts will tell you that the balls are too big to fit into the hoops, this is another urban myth. The hoops are smaller than a standard basketball hoop, but there is usually a large prize at stake, and at the distances involved the operator would be bankrupt in a couple of hours if he used regulation hoops. One method that is used is to pump the basketball up as hard as possible, this helps to bounce the ball of the back plate and miss the hoop. Feel the balls and try and pick a couple that are softer than the others, also the best method is to throw the balls high so that they drop into the basket, rather than trying to bounce them off the backplate and in.


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