A claw machine is a fixture at every arcade. Also called crane games, they demand players to feed in money or tokens to operate a claw-shaped mechanism that grabs a prize, hoists it up, and then ...

Have you ever wondered why you played the claw machine 10 times and lose and the next person behind you puts in one quarter and wins? It turns out, those claw machines are likely rigged. A recent ...

I love taking my son to the arcade, sharing with him the games I grew up playing and the workarounds that can help improve his odds of winning. On one such trip, we spent too much time and money ...

Claw machines filled with colorful stuffed animals have long been a popular form of entertainment. You’ll probably find them just about everywhere that arcade games are played, but have you tried to ...

In a crowded casino made for kids, stocked with rows upon rows of neon, chiming claw machines, I saw my 12-year-old son’s life flash before my eyes. He had already drained $20 into a single machine ...

Duke Martin had his eye on the prize — a can of tuna buried in a sea of ramen packets. The 10-year-old, dressed in a “Scream” costume, steadily maneuvered the device. Moments earlier, another kid had ...

Claw machines are associated with arcades as much as traditional arcade machines themselves, so it was only a matter of time until Arcade1Up branched out into that arcade cabinet-adjacent world. One ...

Claw-ssic mistake. A curious young boy became the unexpected prize when he climbed inside a claw machine to snag a stuffed toy and triggered a bizarre police rescue, wild video showed. Crazed ...