Theft or just mastermind?
- Thread starter ClonesTwenty1
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Theft? Probably technically. Do I feel bad for the machine owner? Nope - those machines are theft to begin with.
Just like when I used to gently pull out the tickets from the skee ball machine at Chuck E Cheese. Pull gently enough they'd just start shooting out.
We had a pop machine in the senior commons in high school. We figured out if you hit two selections simultaneously it would dispense both cans.
It might have been me who discovered it. Sometimes when I couldn't decide between two choices I would "let the machine decide" and hit two at the same time to see which one came out.
It might have been me who discovered it. Sometimes when I couldn't decide between two choices I would "let the machine decide" and hit two at the same time to see which one came out.
KidSilverhair
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There must be something metal in them or the magnet would have no effect.
Also the stack of bills would be immediate spending money, no mail-in-claim required.
What's really sick is I still love to play those dumb claw machines knowing they are a rip off.
KidSilverhair
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I have told my son the same, but swear to god, his lifetime win rate has to be 50%. Its crazy.
LOL
I'm pretty sure this dude owns his own machine and makes videos like this.
Every time we go to the Great Wolf Lodge we come home with an SUV full of junk. 2 weeks ago we got 2 life size Marios and a Yoshi doing the scissor cut game.
On the pirate wheel, you can shake it to get to the max tickets. They’ve added a force sensor that errors out if shaken too hard so you have to be careful.
On the claw, you just have to know the weight distribution of items to figure out how best to pick them up and then pay attention to the “wiggle” when it comes up. You’ll immediately know if they’ve rigged the jaws to be too loose or not.
On the game where you use the soft hammer to try and get the light up to the jackpot, the trick is to hold the hammer at a certain height in relation to your body and simply drop it. Calibrate based on the results and then you can repeat jackpots at will.
On the pirate wheel, you can shake it to get to the max tickets. They’ve added a force sensor that errors out if shaken too hard so you have to be careful.
On the claw, you just have to know the weight distribution of items to figure out how best to pick them up and then pay attention to the “wiggle” when it comes up. You’ll immediately know if they’ve rigged the jaws to be too loose or not.
On the game where you use the soft hammer to try and get the light up to the jackpot, the trick is to hold the hammer at a certain height in relation to your body and simply drop it. Calibrate based on the results and then you can repeat jackpots at will.
My daughters got a free arcade card at a birthday party and they wanted to do the claw machine. I thought it'd teach them a life lesson, but each of them got a nice toy. Now they want to do them all the time!
My younger daughter is that way. She's never pulled out an iphone or anything like that, but she usually walks up to the ones with the cheaper toys and walks away with something. Her older sister would give her her card so the younger one could get the older one prizes. At a Birthday party one time, there was a line of kids waiting for her to get them a prize.
In my town we got prizes for pin ball high scores in a certain bar...we discovered the glass could be slid off the top of the machine* and we were getting a lot of free pizza, pop, and other goodies.
*We'd activate the scoring contacts with a coin and watch those scores roll up!
*We'd activate the scoring contacts with a coin and watch those scores roll up!
