Working at the goldfish game during the Luzerne County Fair are Kiwanis Club of Dallas members, from left: Cathy Beretski, Mary Rodriguez, Ellen Carfello, and Liz Martin. Fair attendees and vendors ...

Raelynn Graham and Adrianna Krush bought two buckets worth of ping-pong balls in hopes of winning a goldfish, hermit crab or beta fish at the Goldfish Game. The object of the game, which sits along ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Don Hurst figures he’s given away millions of goldfish at carnivals over the last 25 years. Fair-goers win a fish in a plastic bag by tossing a ping pong ball into a bowl.

I wonder whose idea it was to offer goldfish as carnival prizes for bouncing a Ping-Pong ball into a fishbowl. It has certainly proven to be a lucrative idea. I can scarcely think of a fair, carnival ...

The goldfish bowl game is pictured at the 2007 New York State Fair. Fairgoers who could throw a ball into one of the bowls, would win a goldfish. Wade Shows replaced James E. Strates Shows as the new ...

Cost to play: Three balls for $1 or a basket for $5. Objective: To get a ping-pong ball to land on top of the water in a fish bowl. What you can win: A goldfish, a betta fish or a crab. What I won: A ...

Raelynn Graham and Adrianna Krush bought two buckets worth of ping-pong balls in hopes of winning a goldfish, hermit crab or beta fish at the Goldfish Game. The object of the game, which sits along ...

LOS ANGELES — Don Hurst figures he’s given away millions of goldfish at carnivals over the last 25 years. Fair-goers win a fish in a plastic bag by tossing a ping pong ball into a bowl. With Hurst ...