For many, King’s Day is a fun day out, for others it’s a lot of fun. And that really doesn’t just happen on the free market.
It still depends a bit on which of the two participating parties gets rich from this game, but money is earned anyway. A group of friends has installed a life-size slot machine on Eerste Egelantiersdwarsstraat.
Take a gamble
Downstairs, the two presenters, Andor Zandberg and Joost van Everdingen, are dressed entirely in gold to receive the participants. A few floors up, in the three windows of their house, friends are sitting with large buckets on their laps. The participant pulls the lever at the bottom, the friends grab (blindly) in the barrel, stick the score against the window and tada: a winner rolls out of the bus.
The deposit is between 1 and 10 euros and you can win it back a maximum of 10 times. With a bit of luck you will go home with 100 euros. At the end of the afternoon, the men had already handed out the main prize a few times, but they had also made a profit of 200 euros themselves. So cash in! Although it is also gambling for Andor and Joost.