The Carnival

Combat 62 to 72, west out of the Yard: four freaks on the midway, three stall games, a duck pond, and a cage with something in it.

On this page: Getting there · The three stalls · The duck pond · The cage

Balloon Pop, the Shooting Gallery and Whack-a-Mole. Each costs 100 tickets a go, and a perfect round pays about five times that. There's a short wait between rounds.
They pay for how many you hit, and they speed up as you go, so the last few shots matter most.
They're a game, not a job: a good round beats the fee, but fighting on the midway for the same time always pays more. Play them for fun.

The only water on the map, and the only place to catch goldfish and koi.
Both can be smoked. Smoked koi gives the best bite rate buff in the game: a fishing buff you have to fish for.

The Grinning Man is behind a turnstile that takes a Carnival ticket.
The four monsters outside drop those tickets on about 1% of kills, so getting in costs about half an hour of fighting on the midway.
That's why he pays so well: 2,000 tickets, against a few hundred for anything else here.
He's slow, he hits like the monsters one level band above him, and he only comes back every five minutes, so a party shares one kill instead of farming him.
The ticket is a cover charge. Leaving is free; going back in costs another ticket.