Were you any good at those claw machine games?

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Guess I'm the only one who never tried one of these ::booshy
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.
 
No, I've always been really bad at claw machines, I've never understood the appeal.
The appeal is GAMBLING BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
I've been seeing these machines more often in recent years at shopping malls. They'll have a whole corner store's space worth of these machines with various sized prizes. Of course it's basically gambling as everybody here already mentioned how they're rigged to have a certain ratio of prizes per attempts. But, since there are so many machines in one place, what sells the illusion is that all the time someone is walking out with a prize, simply due to high amount of attempts!

Anyway all that to say that, last time I went to one, me and my friends bought a couple credits each just for the fun in trying, and I was the one to walk around the mall as walking advertisement for the rest of the day, with a big plush lizard. I had fun, and I like the lil poofy creature, he's cute. Lemme try to find a picture of it.
 

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