People call it the claw machine. They’re popular at arcades, restaurants, grocery stores – just about everywhere. In case you’ve never played, it’s a game where you line up a claw over loot locked up ...

HOUSTON -- Have you ever wondered why you played the claw machine 10 times and lose and the next person behind you puts in one quarter and wins? It turns out, those claw machines are likely rigged. A ...

Which mini claw machine is best? Nothing beats the satisfaction of winning a cool prize out of a claw machine. If your kid loves playing claw machines or wants to get better at them, buying a ...

I have been putting money into claw machines since I was a little kid. Although my success rate for actually retrieving anything from these machines is less than stellar, I can't help but be tempted ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) - The "claw machine," in which kids try to drop a claw onto a stuffed animal, is an illegal gambling operation and should be shut down, a woman claims in a class action against Denny's.

The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...

A crane with a claw hand hovers over your desired prize. You're armed with nothing but a joystick to help maneuver it left and right, and a button that drops the claw. It lands as you wait to see if ...

One of the many sacred rituals of childhood includes the annual summer tradition of pumping quarter after quarter into a carnival claw machine game, in an attempt to capture that one elusive toy ...

Cocktail Claw, founded in 2020, is a claw machine rental service that focuses on parties and get-togethers for an adult audience. Cocktail Claw’s unique entry into the amusement machine rental service ...

Kids, young adults and even elderly folks are packing into neon-lit rooms, all focused on the same mission: snagging stuffed animals from finicky claw machines in arcades that are all the rage in ...