Almost all claw games in America are rigged. They have them set up so that the claw doesn't have enough tension to pick anything up until certain conditions are met (varies by machine, but the most common is after a predetermined amount of money has been earned, the claw will suddenly start working)

@@LDSkinnythat’s not true for most. I own several arcades and my associate owns over 60+ in New England. Only a small fraction of our cranes are “payout” based. Maybe 8 of them that I can think of. We set them reasonable at around $60 and it’s filled with high-priced plush. The ridiculous thing is ALL the other cranes are genuinely skill based, and customers complain they’re “rigged” all the time, and their favorite one that they believe is skill-based is the only one that’s actually “rigged” Pretty amusing to me. It is a bit annoying to hear so many people claim cranes are rigged, when they’re clueless and it couldn’t be further from the truth. I have one customer who comes in and cleans out my machines like the guy in the video above, he’s truly skilled and a menace! I could never afford these fancy skill cranes they have in Japan with the attitudes of most American arcade-goers.

You can find the machine blueprints on the internet. You can rig the odds to anything you want

The best prize machine in the US, by far, is Stacker. It's rigged too, but it is set to be winnable once it receives enough money. If you get good at the game, you can "feel" the rigging happening, and can just walk away after one or 2 tries, and can come back a month later or so to try again. I've won dozens of Stacker games. One time I won an Xbox 360, which fell and knocked down some Beats headphones too (this was mid 2010s). Also won many many gift cards, plus jackpots at arcades, etc.

@@cameronl1859 Back around 2010, the arcade at Mall of America in Minnesota had a Deal or No Deal game that they forgot to turn on the rigged settings for, which meant it genuinely was a "game of skill" Me and my brother had good enough visual tracking to get the jackpot every time, and we determined a full game to the jackpot took five minutes or so. I don't remember the exact math of it, but we worked out that after about an hour and a half of non stop play you'd have enough points for a PS3, and it would cost you about $100 in tokens. Anyway, we got the PS3 from a very irritated manager. Then the machine was "out of order" for a few weeks after that, and when it came back online the shell game was done in such a way that it was impossible to determine visually.

the us ones are luck, there is a set payout rate

@@ithraldharzul6887 this, i was not too surprised when i found out, its straight up misleading and it should be illegal imo

@@ithraldharzul6887its not even luck at this point. They're just straight up rigged.

there are some claw machines in japan that is straight up scams, worse than usa ones. i experienced them when i was just there. the bigger ones usually have decen payout rates tho

@@tauzins they prey on your hubris

At the time this movie was taken, this figure was one of the ones that had a lot of surplus figures everywhere.😂😂😂

I bet the ad revenue still has not covered it

In Japan if you fail enough you can ask a clerk and they'll set it up in a way that you basically can't lose

In Japan one attempt is 100 Yen, or at some machines 200 Yen, so as he said it was 4500 Yen for him which at the current conversion rate is less than 30 bucks.

@@JJKMagic i assumed it was cheaper in Japan. but i dont think i ever got that many tries after charging my card with $40. Round One is a Japanese Entertainment center in America, so my guess are import fees or something im unaware of that ups the prices here. if i could get 45 tries from $30 id go there much more often. but now i do feel like going back so maybe ill save up for the weekend. thank you.

I think he's blocking his reflection

And people walking by

It's not the size that matters. It's how you use it

Yeah looks like you need glasses dude