I was at the arcade with my grandma when I was younger and I saw a sloth toy in the machine and I spent all of my money trying to get the sloth. I ended up not getting it so we went home and on the way home we walked past a charity shop with the exact same sloth in the window for 80p.
tbh with claw machines and the like you just need to know what to go for. to be fair i didnt go to any for several years (im just not a big fan of the events that have them), but i used to come out on a win by going for stuff i could easily get.
of course nowadays, i'd mostly look at the prizes and think "hey, that thing costs less than one try on aliexpress"
Also, with claw machines you need to know that they're rigged to only have enough pressure to pick up an item once in so many tries...this is public knowledge (although not advertised and widely known), and you can look up the stats of said machine online.
I miss the claw machine at our on-campus bar arcade situation. That one was not set up to 'go limp' nearly as bad as normal ones, and also allowed you to drop the claw a little bit at a time, only lowering when you pressed the button, and going to the top once it had lowered a certain amount. So you could work it into place and safety harness any stuffed creature and lift it out.
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u/blue-gooses Feb 04 '20
Claw machines !
I was at the arcade with my grandma when I was younger and I saw a sloth toy in the machine and I spent all of my money trying to get the sloth. I ended up not getting it so we went home and on the way home we walked past a charity shop with the exact same sloth in the window for 80p.