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Play Snack Stop, a free online vending machine game with 30 snacks, sodas and energy drinks. Click coins and bills to pay the exact price, collect your virtual haul and unlock row specials. Practise counting US money with deliberately inflated game prices. No real purchases, download or account needed.
Snack Stop is a virtual vending machine, not a shop. Browse 30 products: 18 snacks, eight sodas or other drinks, and four energy drinks. All 30 products share one glass-front machine, with no category tabs or pagination. You can see every shelf without internal scrolling: two banks of five rows on desktop, or one bank of ten rows on phones, with three products per logical row. The desktop layout keeps the machine and game controls together without page scrolling. On phones, scroll the page normally to reach the lower shelves and controls. One item in each logical row is a locked special, with a badge showing the virtual shopping amount still needed to unlock it. Look for the SPECIAL badge rather than a fixed shelf position; familiar favourites such as Doritos, Oreo, Coca-Cola and Red Bull are among the chosen specials. These ten specials are the most expensive items: each costs more than every regular item. Prices are deliberately inflated for the counting puzzle: every item costs more than $20 and less than $100 in virtual money, not real retail prices. Each selection starts with nine items in stock, for 270 items in a fresh machine. You can choose another unlocked item while money is inserted; your credit stays in the machine, so check the new price before adding more.
Use the currency wallet to the right of the machine on desktop, or below the machine on phones. The wallet stays in the page layout instead of floating over the shelves. Desktop keeps all game controls together; on phones, use normal page scrolling to reach the wallet when needed. Real US currency images represent virtual money: 1¢, 5¢, 10¢ and 25¢ coins, plus $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills. Click or tap one to insert it. For the $36.41 A1 price, use one $20 bill, one $10 bill, one $5 bill, one $1 bill, one quarter, one dime, one nickel and one penny. That uses all eight denominations. Another exact combination uses three $10 bills, one $5 bill, one $1 bill and the same four coins. The machine requires the listed amount, not more or less. Use Undo to remove your last piece of money, or Return money to clear the credit and start a new combination. There is no countdown.
When your credit matches the price, press Vend and watch your item drop. Click or tap the collection drawer to collect it before choosing your next item. Only successful virtual shopping counts toward unlocking specials; inserting or returning money alone does not count. Row targets increase from $360 to $720, $1,200, $1,800, $2,550, $3,300, $4,200, $5,250, $6,300 and $7,500 of total virtual shopping. Your session tracks purchases and your exact-change streak, with no timer on unlocking items. Restock starts a fresh machine session, clearing shopping progress and locking the specials again. All currency, snacks and drinks stay inside the game; no money is charged and nothing is delivered.
