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Here’s How Claw Machines Are Rigged to Make Sure You Lose That’s why simply grabbing a prize is so deceptively difficult. Helen Thompson. June 11, 2015. Get our newsletter!

Fear not, child in you, because this claw machine by Retrobuilt Games is fairer, faster, and better than anything in the arcade. It uses Arduino to control a 3D-cut arm and lets you build your own ...

I also recently made an analogy to a claw machine during an interview — and got some pushback. I understand a bit better now why that’s the case — at least in part.

This Philadelphia mother was not playing games when she built a life-size claw machine for her twin daughters’ Halloween costume this year. “I try to think as outside of the box as possible.

It might seem like it would be easier to crawl into deceptive claw machines to get the prize, but as a Florida boy learned this week, that ended in defeat, too. Skip to main content.