The Last Play-For-Cash Fascination Parlor

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   @TomScottGo

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   UPDATE: In 2019, the Fascination Parlor was hit by storms, and the building didn't survive. The games have been stored, and hopefully it'll reopen somewhere at some point!

2. 

   @HullBoy-ld6nf

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   The town I've called home since I was 3.

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   @rocketvacebace

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   i fully expected you to mention the actual bloody hull

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   @toddgunther8272

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   Tom was having way too much fun with this.

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   @dazedandenthused8559

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   Technically the fascination parlor at Indiana Beach is still America's only operating location that still pays out, but it only does so a few times a year for special invitation only events so it's not really able to honestly take the claim, in a more general sense.

   It's too bad this place didn't survive the storm, my family has a few folks nearby and it looked like the kind of place I might've liked to hit up with them.

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   @katerowe192

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   THEYRE DESTROYING THE ARCADE Y'ALL AND THE MINI GOLF PLACE NEXT TO IT

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   @Pianoboy1258

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   I grew up going to hull every summer, this feels like a shoutout

8. 

   @LurkerERS

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   @TomScottGo just an FYI it's now for sale on Facebook marketplace…

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   @MichaelMossmanNZ

   January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

   Fascinating … thank you @TomScottGo for another entertaining video =)

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    @judesquier1391

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    There’s a Fascination in Seaside, Oregon and it’s a play to win points. You spend them in the arcade or in the parlour. It’s 25¢/play, and if you win, you get a 99pt coupon. I really love this game and strongly recommend it, even though there are few left in the U.S. It really is good-ol’-fashioned fun 😁😁👍

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    @franknbeans7745

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    Omfg that’s my old boss Chas did not realize you came to hull

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    @HullBoy-ld6nf

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    That's my hometown!

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    @Scottie_Hollywood

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    1:41 Tom: Do you have 3 balls? Chas: I do, I'm ready to go. How about yourself? 😂😂😂

14. 

    @christopherhofmann9920

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    Any chance we could get a Donut-SuperFastMatt crossover episode? Please please please

15. 

    @Rockman_Halo

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    There's one of these in Geneva-On-The-Lake but it's not play for cash. It's so fun.

16. 

    @helipilot6722

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    Sigh….Never had the chance to play. Was born too late.

17. 

    @Reptex_krka

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    He's good at the game but terrible at maths

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    @am8115

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    seaside oregon still has one!!! it's still active. games are 25 cents

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    @scotttaylor7146

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    I used to work the midway at a theme park, we had a similar game to this called Roll-A-Ball. Instead of bingo, it was a race between little racecars and getting the ball in certain holes made the car go faster. Winning a 12 player game (or beating a cumulative 10 other players over a number of games) got you the the 2 foot tall t-rex or whatever massive prizes were available.

    Same electronics and such though

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    @masonkienlen8499

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    I am standing in a cash fascination parlor in seaside Oregon

21. 

    @o_manam

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    Love Tom Scott, never had any idea that he has a video from my home town. Awesome.

22. 

    @arrozbyanyothername

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    I hope he gave you your dollar back

23. 

    @Eliska_Premyslovna

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    1:00 I shouldn't have read those rules of you'res.

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    @hingedelephant

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    I worked on a Fascination Parlor as a maintenance technician at an amusement park in the 80s. All of the machines are interconnected. The holes have open contact fingers in them to detect a passing ball. Whe that happens, open contact relays associated with that hole are closed. When the right combination of relays is set for the pattern your playing, a win relay is activated which sets off the win alarm, lights up the winning table’s top light to show the winning table and the rest of the tables go dark. When this happens there’s a very satisfying “clack” heard throughout the parlor as all those set replays reset. All of these relays were open to the air, not sealed. The contacts on these relays needed frequent cleaning and replacing (all soldered in, no sockets). I don’t recall exactly, but each table had about 35 relays, a combination of 2 pole and 3 pole relays. The parlor had about 40 tables, as I recall. They were both a nightmare to keep working and yet a joy to work on. Fun to play, too.

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    @MartinFinnerup

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    Technically Tom only lent him the dollar, so I guess he should have given back one of the bills.
    Then again, considering they went out of business, I guess they need every cent they could get. :/

26. 

    @RandomnessChannelYT

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    did he paid you back? 😀

27. 

    @PowerSynopsis

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    Did he ever repay the dollar he borrowed?

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    @dave900575

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    I appreciate all of your videos, but this one in particular. My folks would take my siblings and I to Nantasket Beach as kids. Paragon Park was an amusement park that closed in 1984. I remember that Fascination location well.

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    @cannabiscaitlinlivingwithGBS

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    It's gone now. Way to erase our town's history Hull!!

30. 

    @pwaaoolhtims4344

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    I live in Massachusetts, welcome!

31. 

    @boop

    January 8, 2026 at 4:22 am

    They should have a bar in there. That looks like it'd be a blast when you're drunk.

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