{"id":51374,"date":"2015-06-05T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/the-attack-of-the-claw-machine.html"},"modified":"2015-06-05T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:23:18","slug":"the-attack-of-the-claw-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/the-attack-of-the-claw-machine.html","title":{"rendered":"The Attack of the Claw (Machine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only are they rigged, but they&#39;re designed to be easy to rig.<\/p>\n<p>Why they&#39;re not classified as &quot;games of chance&quot; is beyond me. Lining up the claw over a given tchotchke sounds like it&#39;s the <i>least<\/i> important determiner of whether the claw successfully brings it back to you.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/4\/3\/8339999\/claw-machines-rigged'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3TDLLnFX4fB-Z9GkgbIT7FH6brHVes4JcUuDpK_ALdohH5r1gWplManay9WkyyuvPav1nO5sHDcNxOUDYvQVTwsv-ws1US4TfZ73euB3P6ZSxWw9SZOB4rrLcszIG29wTRABVAHA6Anr-K5Pl7nralKjpxibABaPzNjFe7-0OzXGov9yTVOHKmH_z4_IKrkabnnWUxWU2sV-76iLIMOplq5nRWsu_vI0txc=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/4\/3\/8339999\/claw-machines-rigged'>Claw machines are rigged &mdash; here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so hard to grab that stuffed animal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWant a nice stuffed animal? If you&#8217;re using a claw machine, be careful: the system is rigged.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7zxznGArs5x'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only are they rigged, but they&#39;re designed to be easy to rig. Why they&#39;re not classified as &quot;games of chance&quot; is beyond me. Lining up the claw over a given tchotchke sounds like it&#39;s the least important determiner of whether the claw successfully brings it back to you. (h\/t +Les Jenkins) Claw machines are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/the-attack-of-the-claw-machine.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Attack of the Claw (Machine)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48532,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/doing-write-nano-red-in-tooth-and-claw.html","url_meta":{"origin":51374,"position":0},"title":"Doing Write:  NaNo Red in Tooth and Claw","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Nov-14 9:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Doing Write: NaNo Red in Tooth and Claw http:\/\/bit.ly\/1uU66mc #NaNoWriMo View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1877,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/13\/desperation_tim.html","url_meta":{"origin":51374,"position":1},"title":"Desperation time","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Apr-02 1:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kmart is in the tank at the moment, and desperate to claw back from bankruptcy. 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