WOMAN FINDS OUT SECRET TO HOW CLAW MACHINES WORK AFTER BUYING ONE OF HER OWN

If you ever thought that there was an inherently “scammy” element to claw machines, then you’ll be happy (or maybe disappointed) to know that to some extent, you’re right. At least, that’s according to a viral TikTok post uploaded by Katie Clark (@clarkatie).

Clark says she purchased a claw machine for herself and saw that the device came with a manual. While perusing through the booklet, the TikToker came across a pretty damning chapter that blew the myth of the claw machine wide open

—it has less to do with skill and more to do with how sadistic the owner is with its difficulty settings.

According to the manual Clark showed off, the ability to grab an item is a manual setting that can be adjusted by the owner.

So, you know in the claw, like, it’s, it’s not clawing. You know? You can, you can pick it, so I feel like we all suspected this and I’m here to tell the truth to spread the word.”

“I found this, and, how about it, you can change the rate of success,” she says, opening the booklet to show the viewers. “

A viewer in the comments seemed to think that this revelation was common knowledge. “Yeah they just schedule them to payout after a certain number of plays so they get enough revenue per payout,” they claimed.