Pier Prizes and Profit

[HaunsTBUP]

So I noticed there were discussions on what games gave away the most tickets per play and what would provide the most profit through ticket redemption but I noticed that there was a lack in discussion with the Pier games and what you can win and what you can potentially make per dollar spent. Below I listed the games and what the ratio of money earned per dollar spent for each prize:

Balloon Time (can get 1 credit per dollar)
Red Crayon 2.5
Pink Snow cone 5.5
Blue Cat 4.66
Plain Hot-dog 5.5
Natural Hammer 1.25

Pro Roller (can get 1 credit per dollar)
Blue Crayon 3.5
Gold Hammer 5.5
The works hot-dog 4.25
Green Snake 3
Pink fish 4.1

Coin dozer (can't really perfect the game so made estimates of plays to win the prize)
Red Crayon (2 games estimate) .25
Gold Hammer (2 games estimate) .55
Carnie Mirror (2 games estimate) .4
Purple Snake (3 games estimate) .73
Pink Fish (4 games estimate) 1.23

Shoot the star (even though it says you get 3 credits you only get 2 so its 2.5 dollars per credit)
Doughnut 3.73
Pink Snow Cone 2.93
Pink Fish 1.63
Teddy Bear 3.2
Rasta Banana 4.44

Chow Time! Racing (3 credits per 5 dollars so 1.67 dollars per credit)
Red Crayon 1.5
Natural Hammer 1.5
Purple Snake 3.3
Blue Cat 4.2
Plain Snow Cone 2.8

Lucky Duck (I went with an assumption that you'll get a credit half the time so 4 dollars per credit)
Blue Crayon .875
Large Ball .188
Green Snake .75
Tan Cat .92
Pink Snow Cone 1.38

Ping-Pong Ball Toss (I haven't figured out how this can be perfected so assumed 1 credit per 5 dollars but if it can be perfected then 4 credits per dollar) (estimate/perfected)
Blue Crayon .7/14
Plain Hot-Dog 1.1/22
Green Snake .9/18
Blue Cat 1.4/28
Orange Fish 2.03/40.67

Basketball Shot (I haven't figured out how this can be perfected so assumed 1 credit per 5 dollars but if it can be perfected then 3 credits per 5 dollars) (estimate/perfected)
Stuffed Coin .2/.6
Tan Cat 2.2/6.6
Salt Lamp 2/6
Purple Snake 2.2/6.6
Plain Snow Cone 2.8/8.4

So the biggest consistent profit is the Balloon Time game with the Pink Snow Cone when filling your inventory (216 dollars in profit with full inventory). If there is a strategy on how to perfect the Ping-Pong Ball Toss then your profits will significantly increase (357 dollars in profit with full inventory).

[Agarillobob]

usually people go for rasta banana as you can perfectly do the shooting minigame if you set your DPI lower

I guess theres visual queues how to perfect ballon minigame
I don´t remmebr the ping pong game much and if it has RNG but if it doesnt theres probably visual queues too

[HaunsTBUP]

The last two I have listed I have not yet been able to find the perfect visual que but darts, roller, shoot the star, and racing are consistent after a few tries (technically if you're really lucky and know the visual indicators you can get 6 credits in a game of darts but balloon placement RNG has to really be on your side which is why I kept it to 3). Currently I'm close to the ping-pong but right now it looks like it requires almost pixel perfect placement to get consistent 4 credit throws (I get around 1 in 3) from pulling off a full throw. I'm going to try to see if there happens to be a slightly better position or if there's a visual que in the environment where the hand is placed that guarantees success.

[Zing]

My go to has been the pink sno cones on the dart game. If you can angle the darts just right, you'll get 2 points per dart. So a perfect throw is 6 points for 3$. 22$ for a regular pink sno cone and 44$ per if they're on a special with the pawn shop.

[Lú-nu-zu (𒇻𒉆𒍪)]

not at the pier tho but the ones you get from the card sets are way to op dunko for 52 and popcorn guy for 152 and thats not even when its marked up and they are way to easy to get only did the piers to get atleast one of each for my collection (dunko on its day can get you 500+ easy)