first encounter with the coin pusher game, It comes in a gambling category?

[EarnOnVictor]

I saw it for the first time and had never experienced it before. I am a little curious about whether it falls into the gambling category or not. It is mostly present in entertainment areas, arcades, truck stations, meaning it is found in all places but not in casinos.

One more thing how many of you played and earn from this game?

The coin pusher game is an arcade game, I know a little about it but have not played it because it is not my interest, I only watch people playing it. It is not as easy to win a good prize from it and contrary to your claim, it is popular, only that the focus of the most popular casinos is not towards the game and many platforms offering it could be a typical arcade game incline. Perhaps it's for some kind of target focus, I can't say.

[Jawhead999]

It's gambling.

Even though such games exist in a country where gambling isn't allowed, that's because the owner have bribed the government and the owner make the game looks like not a gambling. Even the prize is just a gift, but the gift can be sold to other people, people will buy it especially we sell it below the market price.

We must be careful with something like that and tell our children that many other games they can play without using coins to enjoy the games.

Become parents is really hard now, if you didn't let them to play in such machines, they will choose to play with their phone, they can get addicted with phone.

[len01]

What I know is that everything that bets money on results that are not guaranteed to be obtained or in other words depends on luck, is categorized as gambling. It's just that the coin pusher game is one type of game that doesn't look like gambling or most people think it's like a game for fun.

I've never played the game but I've seen the game on social media before. And I think it's just for fun so the game owner places the coin pusher game in other entertainment places like you said.

[justdimin]

A day ago, I saw a video of a machine located in a public entertainment area where a person inserted coins from the left and right sides. Inside the machine, a back-and-forth movement was acting and pushing the coins. Apart from the coins, there are some other prizes like iPhones, tickets, cash, etc. Later, I checked and came to know that it is a coin pusher game.

It probably falls under the gambling category because it's a game that requires money from you to play, and there is a possibility of you winning something from it. I have never played the game myself, but just like you, I have seen videos of it and have seen people playing it. I have played similar games where you have to catch toys and sometimes snacks and bring them to the hole; if you do it successfully, you get those things.

The thing is that the odds are extremely low with these machines because you can barely manage to get anything out of the machine since if it's a artificial hand or something, it will have a very weak grip, and if it's something that helps you push the stuff towards the hole, it won't have any strength at all because if they make it easier, people will win more than they spend on the game and that will make the owner lose money.

[acroman08]

I saw it for the first time and had never experienced it before. I am a little curious about whether it falls into the gambling category or not. It is mostly present in entertainment areas, arcades, truck stations, meaning it is found in all places but not in casinos.

It falls into the gambling category, the only reason why there are people who do not consider it as one is because it is usually seen in arcade centers and the prizes you can get from it are either tickets or tokens.

One more thing how many of you played and earn from this game?

I've played it a lot when I am a frequent goer to arcade centers, other than getting tokens or tickets and then exchanging the tickets for prizes I have not earned money anything from this game.

[nimogsm]

Everything that concerns money and the possibility of winning a prize is gambling. It's funny to read about such machines in 2025 and to be honest I haven't seen them on the streets for a long time, I thought that few people were interested in this anymore. The last time I played was definitely more than 10 years ago, the principle was similar, only there you had to push a tower of coins, it came out in a small profit, but I played for small change, to win something significant you needed kilograms of coins and many hours.

[EluguHcman]

I have also come across a game like this  but had always been watched online not physically otherwise I would love to get through it if not just to enquire how it is played and how it is programed I would had taken it a step.

I don't think if this coin machine game can be said to be one of the  land base or skill base games because I literally don't know it playing patterns for the players to win or criterias that justifies the players and the game community.

OP as asked if this could be called gambling, I don't think yes it could because because there are prizes and also I believe there is a stake to wager and take risks to win involved.

[Onyeeze]

I have been watching people playing coin pusher game on youtube and it so satisfied to watched because the people who playing this game can win a lot of chips and coins but i was wondering whether those machines are modified or not because seems the people who playing this game seems very easy to gets the prizes and as far i know the prizes of this game mostly money or chips which can be exchanged to the real money so i think coin pusher can be categorized as gambling game

there's something I want to know those chips and coins, you are talking about can them be convert to a Fiat currency if someone want to convert them to a currency is it possible? If it is possible for them to convert those coins to a currency that we know or we can see that means is good for someone to know about this method of modified game and if there is a profit that people benefit on it massively I think in many people will you like to engage on it seriously because today is my first hearing of this particular kind of game and the sense have been taken youtube have not come across of it

[ethereumhunter]

Become parents is really hard now, if you didn't let them to play in such machines, they will choose to play with their phone, they can get addicted with phone.

Yes that is right because I have seen this happen to some of my friend's children. Those children will cry out loud in front of the store asking to play that machine which makes their parents embarrassed with other people around that place. They finally give what their children want before everything will be a bad situation. But they also play with their parent's phones as I wonder if their parents give that phone freely without limiting their children's access to the time to use the phone.

[MArsland]

The coin pusher game can be considered a lower-level form of gambling because you have to input coins, which is your money, to win a prize, and your winning is based on luck. Your prize is uncertain and can vary depending on what is being staked. If you don't get lucky on the first try, the more you play, the more chances you have of winning something. But it's not as serious as casino gambling. Most of the time, people play it for fun.

I wonder what you mean by lower level gambling?
Coin pushers are still considered gambling, they are not much different from classic slot machines and as long as you put money into them to get a bigger prize then it is considered gambling with the same level of risk (win or Loss).
In some malls we often see it but no one ever calls it gambling but more like a game in an entertainment venue. But indirectly it is still gambling wrapped in the pretext of a game.

[shasan]

A day ago, I saw a video of a machine located in a public entertainment area where a person inserted coins from the left and right sides. Inside the machine, a back-and-forth movement was acting and pushing the coins. Apart from the coins, there are some other prizes like iPhones, tickets, cash, etc. Later, I checked and came to know that it is a coin pusher game.

I saw it for the first time and had never experienced it before. I am a little curious about whether it falls into the gambling category or not. It is mostly present in entertainment areas, arcades, truck stations, meaning it is found in all places but not in casinos.

One more thing how many of you played and earn from this game?

Welcome and respect to your opinions.

It is one kind of casino where the winning/losing depends on luck and the game should be played with real money instead of coins I think the game is a level game where maximum people loss and only a few people can win. I think this type of game is available in most countries including those where gambling is prohibited.

[Darker45]

I've never liked this game. It looks like a pointless game to me. But I tried playing with it because one of my cousins used to play it. It was purely killing time. Yeah, there were also iPhone boxes inside, some toys, money bills, and so on. They're certainly there for players to continue dropping tokens or coins. I don't think there ever was a player who actually won an iPhone out of it. They're simply there to entice players.

I don't think it's a gambling game. You're not really betting. Although there's a chance to win a prize by spending money, it's not by way of gambling in the strict sense. You're just like playing in a carnival or funfair. You pay, take your shot, and you may win a prize.