How good are you at playing...?!


Question: ... those "iron claw" machines?
You know... the ones (also known as "skill cranes") where you put in some money and use a joystick to maneuver a claw back & forth, trying to win things like stuffed animals by grabbing them. They have these machines in stores and arcades.
I win at this every now and then but my brother is so good at it he has had people offer to pay for him to play so he can try to win them something, since they see him win so much. My brother never has to "buy" stuffed animals for girlfriends or the children in my family. He just "wins" them out of the skill crane.

So tell me... how good are you at skill cranes?


Answers: ... those "iron claw" machines?
You know... the ones (also known as "skill cranes") where you put in some money and use a joystick to maneuver a claw back & forth, trying to win things like stuffed animals by grabbing them. They have these machines in stores and arcades.
I win at this every now and then but my brother is so good at it he has had people offer to pay for him to play so he can try to win them something, since they see him win so much. My brother never has to "buy" stuffed animals for girlfriends or the children in my family. He just "wins" them out of the skill crane.

So tell me... how good are you at skill cranes?

Most of them are scams.

One thing to look for are rubberbands on the fingers of the claw, when there it is easier to pick things up.

I am good at one that if it is working correctly.

im amazing at it

i suck at it....i think they are supposed to make the claw like so small its almost impossible to win :(

i totally SUCK . but if you want to win its all in the wirstman!

This is too long to read!

I hit around 40% of my intended targets...the avg person hit around 5%

I'm pretty good I guess

im pretty good

I would say I can get the prize 50% of the time.

i won a stuffed animal once .. but that's about it ...

every # attempts, the crane gets stronger so that you can grab the prize. there's a setting inside the machine to set the #

I'm rrreeeeaaallllyy bad at them. i give up after the fifth try cause I know i'll never get one. But my dad is a master just by winning once. He won a boxing glove with the Incredible Hulk printed on it. He never won the other glove though...

i think im pretty good i win abot 60% of the time but its mostly luck and a little of knowing what is actually possible to pull out of them.

they;re rigged smart

I rock at those things. Seriously I get like several stuffed animals at once. Not necessarily the awesome ones but really, it's not that hard.

i'm pretty good.
my sister and i once got 8 stuffed animals between us for like 5 bucks (10 tries).

i'm pretty good at it, around 60/40%

those things make me cry. no, seriously, i was doing good one time and i grabbed a hello kitty plush, which i wanted so bad, and i had it coming to the place where it drops it in that hole, and then..... it fell and hit the side of the box.... and fell over the side and back into the machine. i was freakin mad as hell! and i couldn't reach it the next try b/c it was too close to the glass for me to grab it. i wanted to DIEEE!

I'm TERRIBLE at playing the iron claw, but your brother and my son could probably empty one of those machine in a very short time working together. My son wins almost every time he tries!

I don't generally play them because it's gambling, plain and simple. But I have given money to kids to play them on occasion. I'm sure that makes me a terrible hypocrite.
HERE IS A REALLY WEIRD TRUE STORY THOUGH!!!
Once, I was at a restaurant and I was waiting to be seated along with a group of young teenagers. They were plugging money into one of those things, desperately attempting to dislodge this tiger plushy which would not budge. Finally they loudly declared that they had no more money left to play. I was silently debating whether or not to offer what coinage I had to them while staring at the machine. It occurred to me that if I were to take the claw at a certain angle and drag it over the tiger, I could probably tip it into the bin for them. Suddenly, and I am telling you this was one of the strangest things I have EVER seen with my own eyes, this claw thing dropped down, raked over the tiger, and sent it tumbling into the bin. For about half of a second I was sure I had begun to see things, but then the kids started shrieking and pointing at it. They came running back over and I guess they thought that I had somehow gotten it to do that, but in reality I hadn't so much as touched the thing!!! I stood up and reached in there and handed them the tiger, and they were still freaking out over it and demanding to know how I had caused it to work without touching it. I think it just malfunctioned or something, but they wound up naming the tiger "Charlie" because they refused to believe that I hadn't done something to make it fall!!!

I am REALLY GOOD at it. I have been playing those things since I was probably 4. My dad and brothers would always play them when we would go on vacation, and I guess I just picked it up from them. I can not walk in front of one wihtout digging in my purse for some quaters!! I am obsessed!! LOL!!



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