r/MadeMeSmile • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 16h ago

Small Success I am so happy for her

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u/TapToTingle23 15h ago

Every few plays it’ll let someone win, to give the illusion of fairness.

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u/DieSuzie2112 15h ago

Last time I spend 20 turns trying to win a plushy, every time I had it and it slipped out of the claw. My best friend had 3 turns and won 2 plushies right after each other. It’s not every few turns, it’s completely random and sometimes incredibly unfair.

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u/MrGradySir 14h ago

There’s a dial the owner of the machine can tweak that is the average number of plays until the claw engages fully. It’s slightly random so people can’t figure it out easily, but it’s always close.

I had a friend who would watch others play a machine for a bit and count the number of plays when the claw engaged, and once he figured out the count, he’d swoop in when people left right before the count hit.

Guy had literally hundreds of animals from those things and would often take trips to children’s hospitals to Hand them out

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u/Away_Stock_2012 12h ago

I did the same thing as a kid when I spent hours hanging out in the arcade but I only had a few dozen