“It’s easy,” Jace Collins tells the two wide-eyed boys walking past his carnival booth at Old Home Week in Charlottetown, waving them over while clutching a handful of darts. “All you have to do is hit one of the pictures and you win a prize.”
The boys stop in their tracks and approach the booth. Their father hands over some coins in exchange for the darts, and it takes only a couple of tries and a free do-over before the boys hit the target.
He’s right. It is easy. High fives all around.
“Just getting to see little kids’ … faces get happy after you give them a teddy bear is an awesome feeling,” Jace said.
But making money is also an awesome feeling and Jace, like the others working the games of chance, is paid a percentage of the cash he brings in.