People, just watch what he does and not about the supervisor, that part was only there to show that there are really settings. He just watched and saw that every eleventh person was able to get it, so he waited for ten people to play and then he went in for the kill. This is showing that if you pay attention to who's winning then you will win yourself. Great video... voting five.
Encountered a machine with a yellow box today at an amusement park. I won twice, but I grabbed several animals that were completely encased within the claw, lifted, and then fell out! They were absolute perfect grabs, and the entire small stuffed animal was all within the claw area. It took us playing several times to realize that there was a setting. Now we know for next time.
The original Top Gear started in 1977 I'll give you that but ended its run in 2001. Although the show I'm referring to is the one that Richard Hammond has a place on. The program that began filming in 2001 (and aired in 2002) is a completely separate show from the original Top Gear in the sense that almost all of the original cast and crew went on to Fifth Gear which was originally going to be called Top Gear had it not been for the BBC continuing to publish Top Gear Magazine.
They had a televised crane championship on Japanese TV a few months ago. The top 2 players were ordinary Japanese housewives. They scored almost every time by identifying little places the grabber will catch on the toy etc, so clearly there's a skill to it as well as the settings on the box.
I once played one of the large Sugar Loaf machines. The claw picked up a very large prize, moved toward the drop tube, the stopped, reversed direction on its own, and dropped the stuffed animal back in its original position.
I have so much Fun for playing Claw Machine from like 10 years and almost around 11 years from my memories Inculded rages moment, even tho I lost my collection plushies wins cause my mom didn’t want sell it’s just giving away stupid poor kids. but now I’m retried playing it cause it don’t have good license and stuff, I still remember I have 4 in one from first try right around my brother plan going college, it will always be my memories 😌
They only open up the machine to show you the control box. It's just to show you how the machine works and how the crane game is controlled by the supervisors. The method described does not require you to look at the box, just that you wait patiently to count the number of attempts between "wins" to figure out the "magic number".
One guy dresses in coveralls with a dolly and the other in a suit with a clipboard. They go into an establishment with a claw machine with new counter people. They explain they need to take the machine in for maintenance. Then, they haul the machine off, load it in the truck, and they leave. That's how.
when i went to six flags for a trip when i was a freshman, and i won a first generation ipod nano the year it came out from a crane machine after 2 tries.
I like to position the claw so it picks the animal up and flips it over in the direction of the hole, do this a few times and it should flip into the hole pretty fast :)
In the United States, there has been legislation passed that allows all crane games to give every player the same chance. Not sure if the same is in the UK, but this video seems to prove that they are screwed.
I once found a machine that had been way over-filled. I won 4 or 5 toys without even closing the claw, they were stacked so high you could just nudge them down into the hole with the claw.
here on the philippines we have plenty of crane machines the one machine that I always prefer was the net game.. Instead of a crane ur using a net to catch some stuff toys and I always win! =)
I used to work in an arcade in the united states. All of our claw machines did infact have a claw strengh dial, but not the other one with the win to loose ratio. Basicaly their are some prizes in there that are going to be absolutley imposible to win due to their size or weight or both. go for small round objects. or just punch in the glass front what ever works.
this is sometimes not the case anymore. I have my own crane, it pays out after a certain amount of plays, but on mine and many other newer machines it randomizes the payout so that u cant figure out the rate! also they can be set on something called an Active Percentage Control, which means that if there is a loss on a win try or a win on a loser try it will make up for the wins or losses making it pretty hard to tell when it will payout. and newer cranes have either an LCD display screen or is configured by dip switches or by the timer and credit screen. not all machines have a yellow box. that was just those. many different machines have different ways to configure.
Cannycart, he was just showing you what controls the strength, and how often the machine pays out. You never actually touch the box. Watch the video again.
One time, I walked up to a crane game without money with me. I moved the joy stick, and the crane moved! I guess someone had left money in there. I told my sister and she won a Super Man hat from it. She gave it to our friend and changed it from "Man Of Steel" (on the back) to "Z-Man of Steel."
In major cities with casinoes... the crane machines do not have this yellow box. It's illegal for an establishment in most gambling cities to have something like this in a machine. I know because I saw an engineer manufacturing and saw inside. When I questioned him he told me that.
Михаил Костин it's actually a legally enforced regulation. in some places the psi settings are such that only 1 in 12 tries will have sufficient grip to win.
yeah but it's still a liner equation... say someone wins then person 2,3,&4 go, then the kid comes when it should win. then players 6,7,8,&9, followed by another winner. even though you calculated for ten, you are going to go at turn 20, which is still divisible by 5, therefore still a winning turn.
My big brother is freakishly good at this game. When he was about 9 or so, he went to the crane machine and got seven things in a row for our cousins. I wonder how he does it?
@zhokar I think the yellow box is something recent (within the past 10 years). I used to win a lot more than I do now - even with perfect grabs the prize falls out. Pretty rigged now.
brainiac is so cool i love that program!!! it rulez!!! but the only ting rong wit dis way to beat the system is that not many people would go on them machienes so u would be waitin for days!!!!! man u kicks ass!!! even though they lost 1-0 today!!
another, more effective way to win is to use a baseball bat and when the claw machine repairman comes, use your bat again you then win his wallet, cell and the keys to his repair truck which is probably full of stuffed animals
i was at 6 flags theme park the other day and in one machine they had psp'ss and nintendo dsi's and ipod touch's... i wonder how often those pay out... AHHHH i was sooo close to winning
I believe the pressure of the clamp bit. But the 1 in 5/1 in 10 bit is rubbish. The fuller the machine and the LESS packed it is, the easier it is to win. If the person who fills it stuffs the toys in tight then it's harder. I've won those big toys (Got four Simpson characters and a whole bunch of other stuff) and I only target the machine when there's a toy that looks loose from the rest of the pack. I've won two in a row when it's like that.
This is true!! Today is the first time I ever played this game. Within the first dollar (2 tries) I won Clyde the Pac Man Ghost. So later I decided to try to win pacman. 2 or 3 dollars later I grabbed pacman everytime but onces, the crane would pick it up and then drop it. Eventually it went around the entire Pac Man and I won it. Not bad 3-4 bucks for two plush toys that retail 30 each.
@clocwirkoj If you play one of the non-rigged games (full, shovel like claws that clamp shut very tight) its realy fun. ofcourse, these machines normaly hold very small things, or its just a tub full of candy. But, they are epic, and there is REAL skill involved.
My Sister can literally empty these machines, one toy right after another. She will lose the first 4 or so, and then get every single toy after that. I don't know how true this video is, since she is able to do that. I've never won even once.
Как выиграть у автомата с плюшевыми игрушками?Не получается выиграть игрушку у автомата с щупальцами? Все очень просто, ведь есть некоторая хитрость, которая позволяет вам насладиться победой…Идея состоит в том, что работой этого разорителя влюбленных мальчиков и податливых родителей управляет некая желтая коробочка. Настройки этой коробочки состоят из двух параметров - сила удержания игрушки и периодичность усиления щупальца - момент, в который вы можете выиграть. Если некоторое время внимательно наблюдать за играющими, то вы сможете заметить, с какой периодичностью срабатывает «сильный» зажим. И вам нужно просто подойти и выиграть вашего зайчика или медвежонка.
So basically, you gotta spend a couple of hours, hanging out by a claw machine like some creeper, all for a stuffed toy?
People, just watch what he does and not about the supervisor, that part was only there to show that there are really settings.
He just watched and saw that every eleventh person was able to get it, so he waited for ten people to play and then he went in for the kill. This is showing that if you pay attention to who's winning then you will win yourself.
Great video... voting five.
Encountered a machine with a yellow box today at an amusement park. I won twice, but I grabbed several animals that were completely encased within the claw, lifted, and then fell out! They were absolute perfect grabs, and the entire small stuffed animal was all within the claw area. It took us playing several times to realize that there was a setting. Now we know for next time.
The original Top Gear started in 1977 I'll give you that but ended its run in 2001. Although the show I'm referring to is the one that Richard Hammond has a place on. The program that began filming in 2001 (and aired in 2002) is a completely separate show from the original Top Gear in the sense that almost all of the original cast and crew went on to Fifth Gear which was originally going to be called Top Gear had it not been for the BBC continuing to publish Top Gear Magazine.
They had a televised crane championship on Japanese TV a few months ago. The top 2 players were ordinary Japanese housewives. They scored almost every time by identifying little places the grabber will catch on the toy etc, so clearly there's a skill to it as well as the settings on the box.
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I once played one of the large Sugar Loaf machines. The claw picked up a very large prize, moved toward the drop tube, the stopped, reversed direction on its own, and dropped the stuffed animal back in its original position.
i loved this show on G4 when is was still airing ....
i miss good programming on G4
Imagine someone doing this strategy on the ones in Six Flags... Man he'd be there all day.
this is probably the only useful thing ive learned from brainiac
I have so much Fun for playing Claw Machine from like 10 years and almost around 11 years from my memories Inculded rages moment, even tho I lost my collection plushies wins cause my mom didn’t want sell it’s just giving away stupid poor kids. but now I’m retried playing it cause it don’t have good license and stuff, I still remember I have 4 in one from first try right around my brother plan going college, it will always be my memories 😌
They only open up the machine to show you the control box. It's just to show you how the machine works and how the crane game is controlled by the supervisors.
The method described does not require you to look at the box, just that you wait patiently to count the number of attempts between "wins" to figure out the "magic number".
One guy dresses in coveralls with a dolly and the other in a suit with a clipboard. They go into an establishment with a claw machine with new counter people. They explain they need to take the machine in for maintenance. Then, they haul the machine off, load it in the truck, and they leave.
That's how.
My dad always wins at crane games and thanks to him I have a freaking hammock full of stuff animals.
oh snap i remember watching this episode and never knew untill now it was richard hammond
I LOVE THIS Brainiac Video
I remember first seeing this back in 2006.
when i went to six flags for a trip when i was a freshman, and i won a first generation ipod nano the year it came out from a crane machine after 2 tries.
Thanks for posting this, I can know finaly Win one of those damn things.
I like to position the claw so it picks the animal up and flips it over in the direction of the hole, do this a few times and it should flip into the hole pretty fast :)
I sat in the office of the president of the company that owns all of these and he told me that the key is you have to know what to go for
That guy was way to enthused about winning that stuffed puppy.
Thanks Dr. Ian Terry
Top Gear and Brainiac both ran simultaneously. Brainiac ran from 2003-2008, and Top Gear has run from 2001-Present.
In the United States, there has been legislation passed that allows all crane games to give every player the same chance. Not sure if the same is in the UK, but this video seems to prove that they are screwed.
My man knows his top gear! Good lad! :D
I remember spending over $20 on one of these machines trying to win a toy ginger cat. It the end I finally won it and still have him today :)
I learned how to do this during Stats in 9th grade. I wish they had taught me it when I was 8!
aww man thank you about this video my mum lost a dollar on those crane game and left without a prize
I once found a machine that had been way over-filled. I won 4 or 5 toys without even closing the claw, they were stacked so high you could just nudge them down into the hole with the claw.
- The final step is to smash the glass window with your handy baseball bat.
here on the philippines we have plenty of crane machines
the one machine that I always prefer was the net game..
Instead of a crane ur using a net to catch some stuff toys and I always win! =)
I used to work in an arcade in the united states.
All of our claw machines did infact have a claw strengh dial, but not the other one with the win to loose ratio.
Basicaly their are some prizes in there that are going to be absolutley imposible to win due to their size or weight or both.
go for small round objects.
or just punch in the glass front what ever works.
this is sometimes not the case anymore. I have my own crane, it pays out after a certain amount of plays, but on mine and many other newer machines it randomizes the payout so that u cant figure out the rate! also they can be set on something called an Active Percentage Control, which means that if there is a loss on a win try or a win on a loser try it will make up for the wins or losses making it pretty hard to tell when it will payout. and newer cranes have either an LCD display screen or is configured by dip switches or by the timer and credit screen. not all machines have a yellow box. that was just those. many different machines have different ways to configure.
GamerGreen Ambassador Mark Claw Machine HERO i defininty agree with you!
This is 2006
all you have to do is get a small person through the opening and have them grab your prize.
it works at dave & busters
Cannycart, he was just showing you what controls the strength, and how often the machine pays out. You never actually touch the box. Watch the video again.
Theres no way in hell I'm waiting that long just to win a cuddly toy...
One time, I walked up to a crane game without money with me. I moved the joy stick, and the crane moved! I guess someone had left money in there. I told my sister and she won a Super Man hat from it. She gave it to our friend and changed it from "Man Of Steel" (on the back) to "Z-Man of Steel."
Wow didn't know there was so much to this!
He really wanted that stuffed puppy.
In major cities with casinoes... the crane machines do not have this yellow box. It's illegal for an establishment in most gambling cities to have something like this in a machine. I know because I saw an engineer manufacturing and saw inside. When I questioned him he told me that.
gotta be one of the best programmes: eva!
it actually makes you like science1 (well...with explosions, TNT, thermite and a hell of a lot of caravans!)
so...the strategy for winning the 5 cent plush toy is to sit and watch the machine for who knows how long? that sounds fun...
im a claw machine expert and not all machines have a yellow box or a payout rate but all machines do have a claw strength switch
Wait, so the machine is officially cheating? How can something like that be legal?
Михаил Костин it's actually a legally enforced regulation. in some places the psi settings are such that only 1 in 12 tries will have sufficient grip to win.
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You should out my channel I do Claw machine and Arcade Gameplay + Giveaways on my channel and teach you how to win
Yay, now I know how to win :D
Brainiac. The last great show on G4.
If you only see one video in your life, make it this one.
so you have to stand there with a peice of paper for a few hours watching people for a little stuffed toy. :S
For brainiacs, none of you seem to understand the gambler's ruin fallacy.
if you stand there looking at a machine with a clipboard and paper then you'll look like a stocker
oh I'm sure the security would just love you doing that :) heh
he was a presenter of brainiac
i love Brainiac :)
yeah but it's still a liner equation...
say someone wins then person 2,3,&4 go, then the kid comes when it should win. then players 6,7,8,&9, followed by another winner.
even though you calculated for ten, you are going to go at turn 20, which is still divisible by 5, therefore still a winning turn.
Somehow it's just more fun to win a toy using a bigger toy to grab it.
what you just said mean that is does work, either it gives out on the 14th or you simply aren't good at grabbing stuffed animals.
hahas its so fun getting to know the trick... but you have to stand there and wait lols.
My big brother is freakishly good at this game. When he was about 9 or so, he went to the crane machine and got seven things in a row for our cousins. I wonder how he does it?
@zhokar I think the yellow box is something recent (within the past 10 years). I used to win a lot more than I do now - even with perfect grabs the prize falls out. Pretty rigged now.
i wish brainiac was on still
Wow! Useful!
brainiac is so cool i love that program!!! it rulez!!! but the only ting rong wit dis way to beat the system is that not many people would go on them machienes so u would be waitin for days!!!!! man u kicks ass!!! even though they lost 1-0 today!!
That is SO cool!
another, more effective way to win is to use a baseball bat
and when the claw machine repairman comes, use your bat again
you then win his wallet, cell and the keys to his repair truck which is probably full of stuffed animals
This pays off assuming your time is worth nothing.
this is soo cool must try it
Big Brother is watching you.
I cannot believe that people watched that video and still believe that you need to open the machine, payattention2win
Sir, your caps lock button seems to be stuck.
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Wow. That claw looked piss-weak compared to my local arcade...
It is still possible to win multiple times in a row, it is just easier on the turns that is guarenteed.
i was at 6 flags theme park the other day and in one machine they had psp'ss and nintendo dsi's and ipod touch's... i wonder how often those pay out... AHHHH i was sooo close to winning
That rocks, I'm gonna go win me a poodle!
I dunno... i've never seen enough people on those machines to make that work..
I believe the pressure of the clamp bit. But the 1 in 5/1 in 10 bit is rubbish.
The fuller the machine and the LESS packed it is, the easier it is to win. If the person who fills it stuffs the toys in tight then it's harder.
I've won those big toys (Got four Simpson characters and a whole bunch of other stuff) and I only target the machine when there's a toy that looks loose from the rest of the pack. I've won two in a row when it's like that.
the patience...
in hershey park there is an impossible one lol but this summer i can finally beat it
Richard Hammond, is that you?
Got here from Dr. Ian Terry!
yeah and some machines are set to win EVERYTIME but they also have shitty prices or are expensive, or whatever makes them profit.
yup
Don't purge this world of such a game
If only Squidward saw this video...
🤣🤣 it's because he didn't take spongebob's advice on 'being the crane'
This is true!! Today is the first time I ever played this game. Within the first dollar (2 tries) I won Clyde the Pac Man Ghost. So later I decided to try to win pacman. 2 or 3 dollars later I grabbed pacman everytime but onces, the crane would pick it up and then drop it. Eventually it went around the entire Pac Man and I won it. Not bad 3-4 bucks for two plush toys that retail 30 each.
@clocwirkoj If you play one of the non-rigged games (full, shovel like claws that clamp shut very tight) its realy fun.
ofcourse, these machines normaly hold very small things, or its just a tub full of candy.
But, they are epic, and there is REAL skill involved.
i am deffo trying that! lol ive never ever ever won before so this'll be a laugh lol only shame is they didnt show Richard at all lol!! :D
@Willandacamera io love that phrase from toy story
Nice!Really Nice i remeber that :))
Press the play button further up the page. That's how.
My Sister can literally empty these machines, one toy right after another. She will lose the first 4 or so, and then get every single toy after that. I don't know how true this video is, since she is able to do that. I've never won even once.
i got an PSP just for $1 !!!! THX TO THIS VID!(nice vid ! 5/5)
Love how he uses his f*ck you finger @ 0:15
How about that Richard Hammond doing the commentary. Top gear represent haha
Как выиграть у автомата с плюшевыми игрушками?Не получается выиграть игрушку у автомата с щупальцами? Все очень просто, ведь есть некоторая хитрость, которая позволяет вам насладиться победой…Идея состоит в том, что работой этого разорителя влюбленных мальчиков и податливых родителей управляет некая желтая коробочка. Настройки этой коробочки состоят из двух параметров - сила удержания игрушки и периодичность усиления щупальца - момент, в который вы можете выиграть. Если некоторое время внимательно наблюдать за играющими, то вы сможете заметить, с какой периодичностью срабатывает «сильный» зажим. И вам нужно просто подойти и выиграть вашего зайчика или медвежонка.
Yes, you are.
He probely gets payed for it... But no one would do that in real life...
yes
well wasn't he overly excited for a British bulldog
smash the window works very well