I never keep anything I win and instead just give it to a younger family members on their birthdays or Christmas. I really just enjoy the satisfaction of winning and it ends there. Kinda the reason I only go gamble for special occasions. Does /toy/ enjoy claw machines?
>tfw the rocket crane game from Toy Story will never exist in real life
I remember seeing a video explaining that most crane games are rigged so only after a certain amount of tries the crane actually has a strong gripping force so people actually do win from time to time.
Whether or not that's true still I have no idea. There are people in Japan who have UFO catcher tournaments though so I guess it's skill for some machines?
>>5556180
Older machines were skill and the new ones can be set for skill.
But most are set to pay out every so many turns, much in the same way slot machines are.
Granted, of you completely hose it on a turn it is set to pay out, you're going to have to wait around for the next payout cycle.
>>5556185
Yeah I remember watching the same video and I don't doubt it as someone who play em often. Thats why I compared it to gambling. The skill part comes with not wasting that strong grip.
>>5556180
It's skill and luck, the amount of each depends on the machine. And then some are made expensive enough that it grips immediately and requires no skill and some are so rigged that I'm pretty sure the prizes were fucking sewn together or glued down or some shit.
>>5556188
Make sense. The machine at my store is either a weak claw that couldn't grasp styrofoam or at best a fair gripped one. I'm not willing to hose,, just take my lucky moments since. Know if sugar loaf is any good?
Machines where you actually have to drag them to a hole are pretty much designed for you to not get them compared to ones where you can knock them over a ledge in a few tries. Same for machines where the prizes are just tossed in and aren't intentionally piled high or placed for you to get them.
here in the US, it's fairly simple and minimal skill is needed. I remember I went to Game Works about 10 years ago more or less and I cleaned out their crane machine (had Sonic plushes); kept getting 2-4 plushes per try and ended up getting about 32 or so (I completed a set of 6 for myself and gave away the rest to whoever asked for some)
Japanese crane machines are a different monster, I got raped outta $50 in 20 minutes before my gaijin card was accepted
>>5556237
Every day I pray to meet a lunatic like this in public.desu though if someone walked into my grocery store in that id tell security to escort them out fast.
>>5556240
Dragging claw machines are pretty much the only machines within my area so thanks for the tip. position is always important when working with weak claws. I've won more by catching the tag by luck then the actual toy, i'm proud to say i"ve jewed the system at least a hand full of times.
>>5556259
>(had Sonic plushes)
Fuck off chris, or do we have to send more sonic boom merch that has been incontact with our "pickles" to your house?
>>5556289
https://youtu.be/SuaW5IzbnUc
I literally just won a plush toy from a crane machine. All my friends dumped their money on it a few times and failed. They peer pressured me into doing it even though I told them it was rigged to a certain number of tries and after agreeing to try it just so they would stop asking me to lo and behold and I go home with a stupid care bear plush.
>>5556300
Even though I play the crane for the satisfaction of winning and the early christmas/ birthday shopping.. I might have just left that one in the box
The worst ones are where the height of the drop hole is above the prizes. I've seen some really tall ones around.
>>5556205
I wouldn't mind playing an expensive machine if it isn't a shit one that you know you're not gonna when because you can tell it's gripping like it's not even trying.
>>5556290
I'm assuming that's him? I don't really know the context but he seems pretty autistic going by the lyrics
song is catchy too
>>5556342
I remember there was one that was like $5 a play and had these weird stuffed Green Lantern toys. Picked up one of them from the bottom of the pile and dropped it in on the first try. There's also play till you win ones.
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They're not worth the time unless you're in japan, even then you gotta pick your battles carefully, at least that's what I got out of my limited experience with them when there.
So you know how Japan still has giant arcades and everyone says they love them there? well its true, but the video games aren't whats fun, whats fun is the tons of claw games and ufo catchers with prizes other than stupid plushies like you'd get elsewhere. Any kind of japanese merchandise is there, all them titty anime statues? You'd be hard-pressed to find arcades without them, some are made for machine prizes in mind but some are straight up what you'd get in stores. They really play the otaku market there so if you're into that stuff its quite enticing.
Its easy to get carried away and try everything and waste money, but as expected most of these are rigged against you. If you need more than a couple of tries to get something and are still "SO CLOSE" without getting it, leave the machine. If the owners are cheeky bastards and really interested in you, giving you free tries, winning the games themselves and stressing just who easy it is, you're being played for a fool, had it happen to my party, fuckers kept offering to give us all prices if one of us got it, we never did. However in these arcades they love having weird challenges for machines or custom set-ups, and every now and then they'll slip up and not make it hard enough or easy to break. If you're in a bigger place with employees who don't give a fuck, they'll let you empty out the machine for all they care, which I did once...
>>5556484
I really only got 2 prices out of the handful of arcades I visited. First wasn't much to write home about, they had this machine full of Jojo merch and you had your basic claw to grab shit. I noticed a Rohan statue was just sorta sitting there, and since its box isn't soft the claw had no trouble picking it up on the first try. Its a really nice sculpt but completely unpainted, meant for these kind of machines.
The other time was the big one, long story short, I cleaned out and entire machine of Love Live body pillows, averaging 15 of the fuckers, all with money from mates and strangers who wanted their own after I figured it out.
It starts with a friend trying this machine, pic related is a rough draft of the setup. The pillows are folded and vacuumed sealed in compact bags, most are at the back for display purposes while only one is active in play. There is an angled metal pole, and the pillow is attached to a little plastic loop which is suspended on top of the rod, and also chained to the machine. The claw is singular, so the challenge is to place it just right so that upon closing it catches the loop at lets it fall, afterwards you call over an employee and they'll detach the pillow and set the machine up again with one of the display pillows. I also found out if you land the claw on top of the rod and hit it it'll fall immediately.
My friend asked me to give it a try, he gave me a coin and I fucked up the back/forth placement, but I landed the horizontal placement. In a flash of brilliance I stick my hand to the glass where the claw was horizontally, and use that to align the claw next try and get the prize. I took my hand off afterwards, but people started asking em to win them shit, which I did. Unbeknownst to everyone my hand had smudged the glass and left a permanent marker for positioning, making the already easy game guaranteed to take no less than 2 coins to beat.
>>5556487
So I gathered a crowd and made it rain pillows, the poor employee is going back and forth every time I win, asking people which girl they want me to win, and in downtime setting up more pillows from their stock. One time she stuck around to see me win and saw nothing wrong. I also got friends to pay for my pillow, i wasn't going home without one for myself. Eventually they stopped restocking but I have a feeling they had more out back but had enough of my shit. Meanwhile my friend moved on to another machine where he and a stranger literally shook it to win some statues, the employees where out of sight but didn't seem to notice even after coming over to set it up again and pick up the monitor that fell form all the shaking.
Needless to say I enjoy these things a lot under the right circumstances. Pic related is the bae, courtesy of google images, the pillows weren't quite full size and pretty tame, just the girls in pj's and not laying down, but still nice non the less, specially for 100 yen each.
>>5556180
It depends on how it's set. Generally, the better the prizes the less likely it is to be skill. Think about it, if you could get a $10 just for being good at a 50 cent test of skill they'd go bankrupt real quick. It's gambling aimed at kids. Kinda twisted really. Get 'em young.
>>5556484
I've made it a rule to stop at $5 unless I make actual progress.
