Were you any good at those claw machine games?

[KaiserMk7]

There's a technique about the big metal three claw ones, assuming your goal is a round plushie or inflated rubber ball. Get the object between two, and the third somewhat holds it up from below and stabilizes the grip the first two have on the object.

 

[Arthxas3]

I remember winning once in my life and this was the ever first time i tried it. Probably was a glitch or scripted win cause i never won again no matter how many times I tried.

 

[Bonkers225]

Impossible to be good at them. They're rigged, a scam. Basically the claw would be very loose designed to drop every item, till a set amount where it would actually function and get an item. They need to get rid of them tbh.

 

[PSVitaForever]

Guess I'm the only one who never tried one of these
There's one in the mall near where I live, though, inside there are soccer balls.

 

[Morgana Veil]

The only thing I ever won from one of these (after a few bucks' worth of tokens) was a little stuffed bat.
It was at a haunted house and amusement park themed place during Halloween
And yeah, they are rigged, but that's half the fun.

 

[Numubunde]

Guess I'm the only one who never tried one of these
There's one in the mall near where I live, though, inside there are soccer balls.

Me neither! Well, actually I tried one a few months ago, but didn't get anything :P

As a kid my mom wouldn't let me play them because she said they were all rigged, and so my career as a pro claw operator died early.

 

[Viviana Santos]

No, I've always been really bad at claw machines, I've never understood the appeal.

 

[CyberRabbit]

No, I've always been really bad at claw machines, I've never understood the appeal.

The appeal is GAMBLING BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Clippy]

I've never even seen one of these machines IRL. Living in the middle of nowhere rocks sometimes.

 

[Morgana Veil]

I've never even seen one of these machines IRL. Living in the middle of nowhere rocks sometimes.

Yeah I know the feeling yo. I only ever see them and rarely at that, like at the aforementioned themed carnival event that rolls into town every few years here

 

[MasterEn]

only in mario party.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

only in mario party.

Well, it's reasonable because it's a video game and at least the claw has a better grip on an object/prize than in the claw machines in real life.

 

[MasterEn]

Well, it's reasonable because it's a video game and at least the claw has a better grip on an object/prize than in the claw machines in real life.

yeah. it's also more winnable for the one who is the claw. if you're one of the prizes; not so much. fortunately i don't think i've been on the other end of that minigame in all of the times that i played the game.

 

[Darzhgrod]

Just the ones in every Yakuza game. The real ones are definitely engineered to be a scam.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

My sister as a child was a goddess at them. We still have no idea how. Power of being a wholesome kid who wanted a kitty stuffed animal, I suppose.

 

[Duke_11037]

I've only played a couple of times but I usually win something. At my last one I won a official shadow plushie so that was cool.