Not only did man spend hundreds of dollars on two Pokémon plushies but he also had to pay for the shipping

This entire time chat thinks the claw has the power to destroy buildings, as they watch it slip while trying to pick up a stuffed toy.

As someone who has gotten plushies from Toreba from just my free tickets, it's a hard game. You gotta spend hours observing each crane, seeing which ones are strong, which prizes are catchable, etc. Shit is a god damn strategy game

“Arcade games are a scam”- the scammer

These games must be perfect for Mr. ScamWig himself.

Man what a guy Ludwig will willingly get scammed out of his money for hours on end for our enjoyment

I love how the thumbnail just says ‘OIL’ lol

Somewhere in Japan there's a team of people laughing at how rich they're getting from these games

for 230$ he gotta gotten a life sized plushy that he could sit on

Watching those cranes just sensually stroke the prizes popped a vein in my head bro

The profit margins on these games must be insane if they even make you pay for shipping.

Imagine loosing $300 dollars for 2 $10 dollar plushies and paying for shipping, instead of flying out to japan yourself and picking it up. Something tells Ludwig just aint that sigma

this is the equivalent of trying to pick a big rock with a piece of paper

Fun story about when I tried one of these games. I actually got the "strong claw" play that would grab the prize, but the plastic claws they use are so weak that one of the claws actually broke off before the prize even lifted off the floor. These are a huge scam lol

Fun fact: owners of claw machines can change the grip of the claw, it can either be really firm or it can just lightly grab the thing inside

this is equivalent to Ludwig seeing his robot-like self

As a long time Toreba player, I am laughing so hard. I only stopped playing almost a year ago because the machines have been nerfed sooo badly over the years.

It hurts me so much watching this knowing he chose the hardest cranes despite the fact there are NORMAL crane picking up the plush on toreba that can be much easier lol

I've been watching so much Atrioc that when the music at 11:30 came on I thought the video was about to end

I've won prizes from Toreba multiple times. It's just that Japanese machines have wildly different strategies compared to western ones. People will just WATCH a machine for HOURS to try and understand the technique.

I played these cranes at arcades in Japan. It’s crazy addictive but I picked up some tricks after watching people play. They’d spend $20-30 worth of yen and then I’d go win spending like $3-5. I won like 10 plushies that way never spending more than $20 on them since they sold most of them at the Pokémon centers nearby for like 2500 yen

toreba is less of a "grab it with the crane" game and more of a "use the crane to knock it around" game,, it involves a lot more strategy and takes a bit to figure out what positioning will do what (not to mention they have other styles of games with different places to drop the item)

You don't overly feel scammed in Toreba until you're literally about to win something and you see a hand come in and put shit back in place. Rage Inducing.

and we're back to late night Ludwig

Chat: Stab the bag! Cut the plastic! Lud: YOU LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD!!😂😂

The cranes are calibrated to have different strength levels. So that every 1/70 or something has a strong grasp. The win rate are set by the operator venue with by a dongle attachment that plugs into the machine. It's usually labelled as win opportunity and the value is a percentage.

Played Toreba for a year and it was the most stressful time ever. Unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, you usually have to wait for others to play and hopefully they can move it enough for you to snatch up. Not to mention that their customer service is extremely bad and they take months to get back to you. I quit because now they don't even offer free shipping and I was just tired of dealing with this. I recommend just purchasing the items since it's cheaper, you don't have to deal with their bad support, and you don't have to wait months for it to ship. If you just want the thrill of winning a crane, just go to Round 1 since they're a Japanese company.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome” - Ghandi probably

That new ending screen looks so sick, like the lineart is so clean, the colours pop and it's got that whole japanese vapourwave vibe but with a fantasy twist

Finally my sleep schedule lines up with perfectly timed uploads

Lud, I know you’re not big on reading/responding to comments but I hope you see this... (TLDR at the end) If you shipped them both at once and never used Toreba before, you shouldn’t have to pay for shipping. Toreba let’s you ship as many as you want for free once a week. You have 14 days to cash in a prize, so you can win as many prizes as you can in 6.5 days and get them all shipped without spending any TP on shipping. Also, if you were expecting giant plushies, you’re gonna be devastated when you find out how small those plushies really are😅 you have to check the sizes (most of the time it’ll tell you either in the title or in the picture - if it doesn’t, assume the worst) before you play for them. Not a lot of the Pokémon ones come in big sizes. There is a separate prize section for big plushies and there are some Pokémon prizes in there. I know you were being sarcastic at the end of the video and think these games are a scam, but there are techniques to winning the prizes in machines on Toreba (and games like it) without spending as much money and with much less frustration. Here are just a few: - *Never assume your next move will win it.* It generally will take at the very least a few more moves than you expect and it’s always better to be pleasantly surprised. - *Aways try to go to play the games with the boxes.* There’s usually multiple machines listing the same prize and at least one will usually have a box. You want to avoid playing the machines trying to grab plushies (they’re much more challenging and unpredictable). There are a few specific types of box machines that are much easier and almost guaranteed wins. - An exception to the last one is: *Plushy machines are okay to use if you can snipe them in 3 moves or less.* That’s what you did with the Lapras. You also have to keep in mind that the plushies wrapped in plastic are 10 times harder and usually are nowhere near as close to falling as you think they are compared to regular prizes. If you can’t get it in 3 tries, it’s no longer a snipe and you need to bail. - *Avoid trying to completely lift up the prize and avoid using both sides of the claw at once.* 99% of the time, only the claws with the rubber tips or rubber bands wrapped around the tips are able to actually pick up the prize. Always use either side of the claw to push/pull/slide/flip the prize until it falls. An exception to this would be the case of machines like the one where you had to try to drop the boxes through the slot. Again, those were just SOME of the tips and tricks. I feel bad because you just happened to pick two really terrible examples of the box machines. The first one you got (the long orange box wedged between two bars) was a little harder because of the position but still obtainable (and much more easily so than grabbing a plushy) if you had known what to do (I won’t go into the how-to of that unless someone asks - I’ve already written a lot). The second one you got (drop the box through the slot) is a very difficult one that should be avoided if possible (unless it can be sniped). I used to be obsessed with Toreba and another online claw game called Clawee. Granted, I spent way too much money LEANRING the winning techniques and now I’m broke and owe people money, but I have 30 plushies the size of me to show for it😅 winning was such a rush (especially when I learned the techniques) that I sort of became a little addicted.. There are SO many cool prizes you can win besides plushies. The prizes are also always cycling. New ones coming all the time, some staying all the time due to popular demand, some staying for a few weeks then getting taken down just to go back up a month or so later. In addition to plushies of all shapes and sizes, I’ve also seen blow up chairs, themed storage containers, air mattresses, body pillows (yes including /that/ kind), pillows that turn into blankets, sleeping bags, tents, grills, cooking tools (pots, pans, spatulas, etc), jewelry, rc cars, bento boxes, toy guns, puzzles, posters, themed alarm clocks, mini fridges, pet beds, MANY big boobly figurines, and more. TLDR: Speaking from experience, Toreba is much less of a scam and has a lot to offer when you know what to look for and what to do (and I can share those tips with anyone interested). You also should not have had to pay for the shipping unless you ordered the prizes separately.

Ludwin would have won every plushie on the website in one try.

This video made me so proud of myself for only using free play tickets over the course of a couple months and getting the same amount of prizes

i dont know who to believe, my gf who wins alot on toreba or ludwig who loses aLOT

1:57 what, are you tickling it? had me there LoL

HE JUST BLINKEED WITH ONE EYYEEEEEE IM LITERALLY DYING OF LAUGHTER 16:34

The ones with Box A and Box B are weighted in the front edge. The claw loosens up a little bit allowing the box to rotate to a slight angle that looks like its up and down. Couple that with the lowered back edge will make the box catch the back edge every time instead of going in when dropped.

That new ending background art is fire

So basically Lud is paying to get scammed...Does that sound familiar to anyone?

imagine losing to a claw machine from the other side of the world

People commenting about the claw grip strengths and how the machine changes grip strength based on number of plays... that's not really correct with Japanese claw machines. I literally own a 3 claw machine and yes it has a "payout" setting that strengthens the grip, but that is for a game designed around picking up the prize and carrying it to a hole to drop it in. UFO Catchers (like these on Toreba) are designed with a fixed strength weak grip that never gets stronger.... because the point isn't to pick up the prize but to tumble/roll/flip it into the hole. You have to hit the prize at weird angles for it to tumble the right way. There's a lot of strategy involved, compared to just... "put claw over target and pick it up until the claw strength actually grabs on to it"

I’m a frequent player of Toreba and I have to say some of the games are really bad but others are great you just have to know what you are doing. This was so funny to watch😆

I miss the lud sleeping in his old room for the outro, but this new one is very epic too, super nice aesthetic

man that ending song im so glad you used this FLAME of a track

“What do you got for me today” “I have 20 minutes of me losing a crane game except when I don’t” “...you have my attention”

First time I was this early I accidentally dropped my plushie outside of the prize zone.

“The crane has morning strength” 😂

the splatoon 2 8ball level music at 12:50 really sells how frustrating this must have been to watch

Loving the end credits scenes

You know the people working in places that run these things must just crack smiles occasionally seeing some random sucker trying and trying to win their rigged freaking game

You’ve gotta do more of these lud

That ending though, like the mix up

8:01 got me laughing in the middle of class

With the Reddit recap intro, Ludwig barely saying boiss at the start of every intro and the outro, it feels like we’re in a new season of Ludwig KZfaq, with that being said, I miss the old Ludwig.

I haven't laughed this hard from a youtuber in a minute. Good shit.

Ludwig in 15 years:gotta catch them all

when your in a pandemic and you can't use irl claw machines.

I won on that same Lapras set up a few months back! Congrats on your win :)

Yakuza games' UFO Catcher minigame has prepared me to understand these crane games, even if they are a just slightly different breed with the weird bar setup that the toy probably can't even fit between them most of the time, but one of the main strategies in the Yakuza UFO Catcher games is the "scooch" method that you figured out. Purposefully positioning the claw off to the side so that when the open jaws drop, one of the legs aligns JUST a hair past the edge of the toy, then when the jaws close they "scooch" the toy to the side. But for sure these crane games are like OP-rigged, and I'm certain the online variant can be adjusted on the fly to account for one person's goated strats.

This is fire I would love if you did more content like this

Everyone here talking about sleep while central Europeans are celebrating morning uploads \o/

After watching atrioc every single day for 8 months, I’ve been conditioned to think the video was over at 11:30 LMAO

The absence of delay makes this being a scam a given.

Thought the video ended with soda city funk lmao wrong channel

As a long time youtube frog. You need to play toreba more than once a year Ludwig. This is prime content.

I used to play Toreba all the time and I've won a lot, but I've gotta say once it got more popular they heavily nerfed the machines. It used to be pretty easy to win just by watching others

11:35 I was starting to find another video to watch, because I thought it was ending. Got me with Big A’s outro

Crane machines don't squeeze hard enough to pick up an item every time. When a store owners puts one in their shop, they get to set the rate at which it clamps hard. So they can have it grab hard 50% of the tries, 25%, whatever they want. That's why you can position it right and the claw still just slides off the toy. You have to both position right and get a lucky roll for clamp strength

11:33 Im so used to that music ending Atrioc's videos that I almost clicked off

Scamwig finally has a worthy opponent

Now this is old Ludwig. I love this random shit

there are times when children most grow up, which eventually means realizing that there is no santa, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no way to win a crane game. They can adjust the strength of the claws. Like come on, if you've looked at one of those games once or twice it should be clear you're not supposed to be able to win

I died at the end when he said "You have to pay for shipping as well?!" Hahahaha

Now that its been a while Lud should run this stream again but get the crane god himself Disguised Toast to come over and coach him

I keep expecting a hand to come into the crane machine and move a plush once it's really close to getting into the goal.

He’s always good for a laugh when you need it 😂

Let’s just take a moment of silence for him willingly making himself lose probably over 500+ usd just for our entertainment

not only did ludwig earn ALOT of money on his subaton, but he earns alot of money from making videos from the streams. he is 4 parralel universes infront of us

The key to these is typically there'd a very specific way you have to position the crane to get the prize. Along with sometimes they'll have a hidden setting to where the strength of the claw won't be enough until a certain number of plays have been done with it. In which it will work properly until someone wins and then reset back to being a scam. A lot of arcade games are similar to slot machines, where they are set to work against you, and only pay out after x number of plays. Which is why random games have bigger prizes compared to non random games which have little p sizes or ticket payouts.

if my mom taught me anything, its those crane machines are "scam machines"

Now Ludwig knows how his viewers feel

That was actually insanely rigged lmao

"Crazy person spending 300$ for a chance of winning a 2$ plushie" - Alternative title

I thought this was a new ludwig episode since youtube had in the recommended but then I realized I was a couple months late to the scammery Dx

Does anyone know the otro song 18:46?

The new outro is sooooooo good

Everyone knows that they are programmed for a win in so many tries to make sure that more money is spent than the value of the prize. Any time that it's not supposed to be a win the claw will never grab with sufficient force. These things exist for suckers. Just buy the prize directly online.

I love how the song from Yakuza(forgot the actual name of the song) comes on at 7:48, literally fits it so well.

For $100 more you could've gotten a life-size version lol

I've had quite a bit of luck with them where I was able to win quite a few prizes by using their free daily tickets shipping wasn't too expensive but not great nonetheless

8:01 when uu wake up from a harem dream

This is one of those games where you cant help but backseat

It's 4am. I watched this live. What am I doing with my life?

Lol, as a Toreba player for 3 years I've won so many figures and prizes, you definitely have to take you time and snipe prizes. I've only spent about 100$ and I've literly done Xmas presents for family with this.

Low key want more of this

11:30 made me think the video was about to end lol

Now this is the definition of “I miss the old Ludwig.”

I've been watching Atrioc so much I thought the video was ending half way through because of the music

Does anyone know what the outro song is? I don't think I heard this in the new playlist?

The classic "Scammer gets Scammed"