Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
If you’ve spent any time in a bowling alley or an arcade (or countless hours like some of us), you know all about the dreaded claw machine. People pump their hard-earned money into them day in and day out, but how many have you actually seen win a prize from one?
You’ve probably seen someone almost get a huge stuffed animal or something similar to the promised land and then loses it at the last minute though. So what gives?
Claw machines are an exercise in frustration, and, if you didn’t already realize it, they’re RIGGED.
But this is nothing new. In fact, goes all the way back to the 1930s during the height of Depression when down-on-their-luck people were enticed by the prospect of winning something, anything. The machines were marketed as very profitable for business owners, so they became very popular.
In the 1950s, the government got wise to the scam, and claw machines were classified as gambling devices. However, in 1974, regulations relaxed once more. That’s when claw machines started to boom in a big way, which explains why today we can see them all over the place — in malls, arcades, bowling alleys, movie theaters, etc.
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