i swear all the carnival/payout games are fucking scams
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i swear all the carnival/payout games are fucking scams
Well no shit sherlock.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
haha, thats awesome. Well, its actually shit that its set up like that, but awesome that its so easy to exploit.
I know from experience that not all claw machines have the "how often to pay out" setting. It's not really that common at all actually.
They do all have the claw sensitivity setting though.
I remember back in the day when I used to manage an arcade, and my DM would always come in and set the claw to waaaay weaker than even I set it on in the first place. Like, it would be totally impossible to ever win anything after he messed with it.
True story!
Yeah a couple years ago a friend and I cleaned out a machine at Dave ad Busters -- the claw was gripping like crazy and I definitely doubt there was a 1 in 5 set, unless the power of the claw overrode it...
Gah, what a jip. Always figured those were rigged that way.
The only "carnival" game I risk playing because I know I can win is the 'knock-the-milk-jugs-down-with-the-baseball' one.Even then if you split them wrong its over.
You're right. A lot of it is just how the items are placed and how weak the grip of the crane is set to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kidnemo
There was a crane game in this diner I went to and I won, like, 3 or 4 stuffed Jason Voorhees dolls in a row. But I only won because they were all placed in positions that made it really easy to grab them, with nothing on top blocking me.
Yea, I'd always try to place the stuff in the bin so that people had a chance to get them.
Said DM from before would come in and pack the crap in so tight you'd have a hard time pulling it out using your hand, let alone the actual claw.
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This topic reminds me.
There used to be a entire weird sub culture of people that would come and only play the redemption games. They would come in and spend like 20 bucks in tokens, just on games that gave out tickets. This one weird guy, who apparently had been coming for years and years before I even started, would be in multiple times a week.
Older white male, nerdish, probably looked like your typical TNL'er. Anyway, he had tons and tons and tons of tickets he won. He'd always play the basketball game, and professed he was some kind of wizard at it. Anytime someone else was playing it, regardless of if it was a little kid, a couple, whatever, he'd bust in and give them the "seminar" on how to really "work the machine".
We had this book for high ticket items that you could turn your tickets in and we could order for people. Anyway, he was always looking at it, askign questions about it, etc, etc. And the stuff in it was straight up crap. Cheap car stereos, boom boxes, crap tvs.
Anyway, he ordered a leather jacket one time from the catalog and wore it constantly. I saw him years later after leaving the arcade ,and he was still rocking it. And its not like he was poor, he obviously had money to burn on tokens.
Besides the fact that the stuff was total crap, the funny thing was that each dollar a peice of merchandise was worth, be it a car subwoofer or a little stuffed animal, was worth something insane like 6 dollars or so. So in order to "win" one dollar, you'd have to spend six bucks in tokens to get enough tickets.
Oh well, too each his own.
And crap, that went waay longer than I expected.
Its called a "claw machine" you fucks.
It is the Claw Machine, and I am Jesus Mode at Claw Machines.