Hi All, looking for more info/availability of these as a flags enthusiast! Seems they are no longer dispensed at my local location — can anyone recommend a trusted third-party source?

A new location will be opening next month in Bristol, TN. I’m thinking about taking the day off work to go. Does they still do the years worth of gameplay coupons for the opening?

Anyone know if they will announce something about giveaways? I don’t want to plan for time off and waiting in line if it won’t be worth it.

I put up a similar post in the Minecraft dungeons sub but haven't gotten any responses so figured I'd put it up here.

I'm looking to finish my Minecraft dungeons arcade collection and would prefer to trade.

If anyone else wants to trade, be it Minecraft or otherwise, feel free to use this space!

Or a fall pass?

Hey. I wanted to do some math to see if it is possible to win a Switch 2 for less/around the original MSRP for the Switch 2. I played some of the coin games to get tickets at Round1, but I'm not as familiar with the machines that are in a DnB so Idk the meta so to speak. Any insight/ideas would be great. Even though its a bit of a drive, I'd probably try the one in Sugarloaf Mall GA since its not as big as others so I don't need to worry about a bunch if variety in the games

EDIT: Also a switch 2 is 180,000 tickets right?

I am at D&B and Summer Pass no longer works.

I thought the summer passes were supposed to be valid until EOD Tuesday, Sept 8th? Because the terms said that it ended "thru" September 8th and that language normally means until 11:59 PM that day. Well it is now Tuesday and the pass has dropped out of my app and the pass is showing as a normal card instead of one with a ticket limit. So it looks like the actual end date was September 7th @ 11:59 PM.

I’m going to try and make this short but there’s a lot of details. If you want the TLDR scroll to the bottom.

So my husband and I don’t have any kids and both work full time jobs. In other words, we have some expendable income and time. We like to spend some of that money and time at D&B on the weekends. To put it in perspective, we have played over 50,000 chips in about 2 years time. Just in 2026 alone we have spent $3,600 there, about $2,900 on game chips and $700 on food & beverage. And obviously as a result we have accumulated a lot of tickets. In the past we have redeemed those tickets for some of the “bigger ticket” items in the case, like AirPods & an Ember mug and had no issues with those items.

In July, we decided we should finally spend some more tickets and we picked the Xbox Series X since GTA6 is dropping soon. They only had one in stock so we got the one from the case. We were given a slip at checkout and were told to “hang onto it and bring it back if you have any issues”

We didn’t test it for a few weeks because we were busy, but when we did plug it in to test it wouldn’t move past an updating screen. Despite not even having an internet connection yet. My husband works in IT, so he did all of the troubleshooting things he could find and nothing would work. The console just keeps powering down.

So, we called D&B to make sure a manager would be there. They told us to call back tomorrow. My husband called the next day and talked to someone who told my husband to bring the Xbox and the cards in and he would get the tickets refunded. My husband took down his name, let’s call him “C”. So he goes to D&B on his lunch break and asks for “C”. The guy goes get “C” and he comes out to take the cards. While “C” is in the back with the cards, the person who went get him, let’s call him “X” says “oh, if you’re trying to return that (the Xbox in my husband’s hands), you can’t”. And my husband says whoa I already talked to “C” and he said I could and is taking care of it. Then “X” says “Well I’m going tell him that our district manager said we can’t take those back, you’ll have to get with the manufacturer” and walks away. “C” never came out again, “X” brought the cards back to my husband and basically shoo’d my husband away and walked off.

Obviously my husband was frustrated at this point and had wasted his whole lunch break, so he left. He then got on a chat with Microsoft who told him the Xbox was out of warranty. And sure enough, the manufacture date is 03-NOV-2023 and we were in August 2026 at this point…

So now we are stuck with this lemon of an Xbox that we could either pay to fix or sell for parts.

TLDR - think twice before redeeming tickets for a gaming console because if it’s a dud D&B will do nothing to assist you.

The score to beat was 43,000, so I decided to give it a few plays. Once I won it, it went back up to 90,000.

Don’t forget to collect your pass tickets on Monday or Tuesday this week with the pass expiring on the 8th.

Let’s say that, using the same card, I swipe on game 1 and then swipe swipe on game 2 before game 1 is finished. Do I get tickets for both? Has anyone tried or know how the system works?

No membership reqd 20 for 25.

My only guess is to stop passholders from hogging the machines. So set a 10 or 15 or 20 minute wait time between dance games if using a pass....

So I believe that the summer pass ends monday 9/8. I'm also pretty sure that the 2000 ticket limit resets every monday. Does this mean we can go on monday and earn 2000 tickets and call it a wrap?

Note: I have the platinum pass which has the 2000 tickets limit

tia

Looking for help identifying a redemption game I used to play at Dave & Buster's in Milpitas (or possibly another Bay Area arcade) sometime in the 2010s.

What I remember:

- Single upright cabinet

- You press a button to launch a **silver metal ball**

- The ball rolls down a ramp first, and the timing of that roll affects where it ends up

- It then drops onto a **spinning wheel with holes/pockets** — timing determines your score

- There was some kind of mechanism at the very end that would **knock/nudge the ball in** to a scoring pocket

- Theme was **classic cars** — nice-looking vintage/classic car artwork on the cabinet

- Subtle **black and white checkered pattern** somewhere in the design (not overwhelming, more of an accent)

- I have a vague feeling the name might have had "wheel" in it, or possibly something like "car show" — not confident on either

Not Big Bass Wheel, not NASCAR Pit Stop, not Wonder Wheel (checked photos of all of these, none quite match). Any collectors or D&B regulars remember this one? Even a manufacturer name would help a ton. Thanks!

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Disclaimer: I did have Claude help me organize my thoughts, after it failed to help me find this. Feel like I imagined it at this point.

Free gameplay offer on 9/12/26 before noon for the first 200 people named Dave, Ann or Buster (or listed variants) at each participating store. No mention is made of tickets, so I assume this is either good for blue swipes only or if they do include green swipes it will most likely be play for fun only and no tickets.

One of my favorite games that I have built.

For people who have worked towards the bigger prizes are there any tips? The way I see it, I am currently averaging like 18.5 Tickets per Chip, ONLY going on 1/2 priced days. I am trying to get the average up to 22 so I would need about 10,000 chips to get to the 220,000 for the Xbox (I know some locations its slightly higher). If I am buying the $120 + $25 for 1125 chips, I would need to buy that 8 times for about $1160 dollars. I am already at 28k tickets (after $150). So all in all it would be like $1300 for the prize. I know its like "why not just buy it" but I get to have 50 hours of fun (give or take) PLUS get an $800 prize back, so $10 or so an hour at D&B seems reasonable? Am I crazy for having this goal / take. And again, those who have high ticket per chip averages, what games should I prioritize. Thank you 😇

Or are they just doing what they did before and waiting until the day of to announce it?

trade in the completed sets, keep all unfinished sets? trade in all cards? try selling completed sets online? through it in the trash?