• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 days ago

    On the last day of school in 7th grade, we were taken to an amusement park. The claw machine must have been configured wrong, cause I won nearly every round. The kids all thought I was great at it. Knowing what I know now about how they have settings to dial-in how accurate they are, it had to be a botched setting.

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    20 days ago

    Very nice. I’m assuming you won it the legit way. The last one I won, I swung the arm around really fast and knocked a prize down the chute.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    20 days ago

    I have a yellow Kirby I won from a claw machine in Santa Cruz a few years ago. Only time I’ve won a claw machine that wasn’t one of those “play until you win some candy” types.

    I don’t even usually play them much anymore after learning that the grip strength is a setting that limits it to pure luck than skill (like the claws won’t actually grip tightly every time, it’s like one out of every 10 or so plays). You ever get the claw on something and it just seems like it didn’t even try to grab the thing, that’s why.