πŸŽƒ Halloween Night 2026 Β· Official Machine Telemetry

The 668-Spin Candy Dispenser Recap

Every button press, load-cell gram measurement, auger prep cycle, and arcade reveal from our automated Halloween candy machine on October 31, 2026. Over four hours of nonstop trick-or-treating, the machine metered and dropped 76.85 pounds of candy across a record-breaking 668 physical spins. For the full hardware, arcade game modes, and firmware breakdown, check out the 2026 Arcade Candy Machine update.

πŸ“… Date: Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 πŸ•” First Spin: 4:59:37 PM πŸ•˜ Final Spin: 9:02:30 PM ⚑ Architecture: Raspberry Pi 4 + Dual ESP32 + HX711 Scale πŸ’Ύ Download CSV (73 KB)
Total Physical Spins
668
New all-time record Β· 165.0 spins/hr avg
Total Candy Dispensed
76.85 lbs
34,857g actual vs. 76.28 lbs target
Target Weight Delivery
100.7%
52.2g avg/spin vs. 51.8g target (+0.7% net)
Median Turnaround
18.1s
88.6% of spins back-to-back (<25s)
Instant Zero-Wait Drops
91.2%
609 / 668 pre-weighed before button press

πŸ“ˆ Crowd Flow & Candy Burn Throughout the Night

After a light trickle between 5:00 and 5:35 PM, a continuous line locked in at 5:40 PM and ran at the machine's mechanical limit (180–228 spins/hour) for three straight hours. Hover any bar or point to inspect that time slice.

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4:59 PM – 5:35 PM Β· Spins #1–34

Early Trickle & Hopper Top-Off

Only 28 spins occurred before 5:30 PM with 3–6 minute gaps between groups. Early full-hopper head pressure caused brief auger bridging until running the hopper half-full smoothed out the flow.

5:40 PM – 8:25 PM Β· Spins #35–560

The 3-Hour Nonstop Rush

With a friend stationed next to the machine coaching trick-or-treaters and keeping the queue moving, the dispenser fired every ~18 seconds for nearly 3 hours without a single 60-second idle pause.

6:45 PM Β· Spin #233

Shifting into Aggressive Gear

Having conserved candy early on the balanced profile (20.5 lbs across the first 233 spins), the machine switched to the heavy-hitting Aggressive profile to hand out bigger fistfuls of candy.

8:25 PM – 9:02 PM Β· Spins #561–668

Jackpot Frenzy & Bonus Pours

To make sure no candy was left behind, we triggered 42 manual XXL/XL jackpots and hand-poured bonus candy directly into the weighing bucketβ€”finishing on Spin #668 as the hopper ran dry at 8.4g!

🎯 All 668 Spins: Gram-by-Gram Scatter Explorer

Every dot below is a real trick-or-treater's spin plotted by time of night and actual measured candy weight (in grams). Filter or color-code by prize tier, game mechanism, or manual jackpot override.

🍬 Prize Tier Breakdown

8 prize tiers from the 10g XXXS pendulum fake-out gag up to the 100g XXL jackpot. Striped bar segments show operator-triggered manual overrides.

βš™οΈ Machine Speed & Game Modes

How the two-stage pre-weighed buffer kept the line moving at 18.1s median turnaround, plus popularity across the four arcade reveal games.

πŸ† Night Highlights & Quirky Telemetry Records

Memorable moments captured in the load-cell and timing logs from Halloween 2026.

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207.5 grams
Biggest Single Candy Dump

Spin #652 at 8:54:47 PM dropped nearly half a pound (0.46 lbs) of candy in a single chute release during the late-night hand-pour bonus round.

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19 Spins / 5 Min
Fastest 5-Minute Blitz

Between 7:40 and 7:45 PM, the machine hit a 228 spins/hour paceβ€”serving a new trick-or-treater every 15.8 seconds with a max idle wait of 8.8s.

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526 Spins in a Row
Longest Continuous Line

From 5:35 PM to 8:55 PM (3 hours and 20 minutes), the idle gap between players never once exceeded 42 seconds.

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3x XXXS Streak
Triple Pendulum Fake-Out

At 6:06–6:07 PM (Spins #121, #122, #123), three trick-or-treaters in a row hit the 0.08-probability 10g XXXS machine-break gag reveal!

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0.01g Delta
Most Precise Scale Pour

Spin #438 at 8:01:30 PM (Tarot Card XS) targeted 30.00g and dispensed 30.0103gβ€”an error of just one-hundredth of a gram.

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8.4g Final Drop
Empty Hopper at the Buzzer

On Spin #668 at 9:02:30 PM, the auger spun for 16.0s and scraped out the final 8.4 grams of candy, ending the night with an empty hopper.

πŸ“‹ Complete 668-Spin Telemetry Explorer

Search, filter, and inspect every spin from the evening. On smaller screens, rows automatically adapt into readable cards.

Halloween 2026 physical spin telemetry log (sorted by spin number)
Spin # Time Prize Tier Actual Wt Target Wt Delta Prep / Dump Idle Wait Game Trigger