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I took my kids to a nickel arcade, and it turns out that many of the games there only exist to dispense "tickets" that they can convert to rewards at the counter. Everything is digital now, so it's not nearly as satisfying as it was when I was a kid. My kids blew through their allotment and when they compared their tickets to things they wanted, they added some of their own money to get up to a specific ticket amount to get the thing they wanted.
At that point it's basically gambling, because the conversion of nickels to tickets is largely chance-based. So loading a game w/ free tokens that dispenses tickets may lead to gambling issues if the kid would otherwise play non-ticket games.
It's a bit of a stretch, and I still think OP is a pretty decent human.