"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted." - Arthur Miller

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

How To Beat the Claw Game

Remember those annoying claw games where for a fifty cents you could win a stuff animal, except the claw seems to have the grip of a new born baby? Where it turns out that's intentional. Its seems that the simple devices are set up so that only every X person could win at it if their touch with the controls is good enough. In other words, they might set it so that every 10th person, or 20th person wins. The key then is to simply spy on the machine and figure out what the pattern is with winners and losers. Once do that, just make sure you are that Xth person and the booty is yours.

This video from Brainiac that airs on G4 explains it better:

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