A fortune teller machine is a type of amusement, which upon receiving credit give out a card with a prediction of the reader's future. They could be found in penny arcade

Penny Arcade

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s, and can be seen in modern video arcade

Video arcade

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s and amusement park

Amusement park

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One unique machine, perhaps the only extant version in the world, survives in a museum in Virginia City, Montana

Virginia City, Montana

Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. In 1961, the town and the surrounding area was designated a National Historic Landmark District, the Virginia City Historic District...

. It features a recorded voice and eerie animatronics

Animatronics

Animatronics is the use of mechatronics to create machines which seem animate rather than robotic. Animatronic creations include animals , plants and even mythical creatures...

. "The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a nickel in the slot, her eyes would flash, her teeth would chatter and her voice would come floating from a tube extending out of the eight-foot-tall box." Reportedly, magician David Copperfield tried to buy the machine from the Montana State Historical Commission for two million dollars.

In media

• In the 1988 Tom Hanks
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   film Big
  Big
  Big is a 1988 romantic comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical fortune-telling machine and is then aged to adulthood overnight...
  
  , the main character, a child who wishes to be big, uses a magical fortune teller machine that turns him into an adult. That machine was referenced in "Fortune in Flames", a second season episode of the reality television
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   series Pawn Stars
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• In "The Honking
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  ", an episode of the animated TV series Futurama
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  Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
  
  , the main characters, wishing to learn about a curse that has afflicted Bender
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  , consult with a fortune teller machine, which, like many of the other machines of the 31st Century is sentient.
• In the eleventh and final series
  Big Brother 2010 (UK)
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   of Big Brother (UK)
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   and the Ultimate Big Brother series, a fortune teller machine named Bob Righter (an anagram
  Anagram
  An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...
  
  of Big Brother), was present in the main living area of the house. In the first few weeks of the series, after a eviction, the machine would tell a good or bad fortune to one of the current housemates. However, in a twist it was actually the evicted housemate who decided who would receive the good or bad fortune.