Saw one of the mall chock full of MLP plushies for $2 a go. Figured it was a false economy.

Fascinatingly boring. Sad to know I'll probably never get football duck.

1 - You put in money.

2 - The claw fails to pick up anything.

3 - You put in more money.

4 - Repeat steps 2 & 3 until you run out of money.

5 - Once a week, someone comes by to empty out all the money & shuffle the stuffed animals around so they don't become obviously faded from sitting under the harsh light.


And that's how claw machines work.

I saw one of these filled with live lobsters the establishment will cook for you if you get one.

Last time I saw one of these was out in rural NEvada about 7 years ago at a roadside diner. Even knowing nothing about claw machines I could tell that one was rigged because along with the cheap stuffed toys it was full of clear plastic eggs with cash in them, from $5 up to a couple of $100 bills, and there's no way they'd have put anything worth more than a dime in a claw machine if there was even the slightest possibility of someone winning it.