

Recalling his first attempt, he said that he went shopping with a friend and was encouraged to play one of the claw machines in a mall.

The man added: 'My biggest enjoyment is to crack the code of each machine by first observing the others playing, then trying out by myself.'Ĭhen played the claw machines for the first time in July 2015. Some claw machines are programmed in a way that you'd never win but for the others, you can always find out how to grab and drop the prizes by observing the position and strength of the claw and the level of toys.' He said that every shopping centre would have several claw machines on each floor.Īnd it's not just toys that people could win: gamers would potentially bag anything from slippers, backpacks, gloves to live crabs. He said that the game, which costs 1 yuan to play per time (12p), is a big phenomenon in his hometown.
