🧸 Claw Machine

How to play Claw Machine

How to play

Claw Machine is an arcade crane grabber. Slide the claw carriage along the top rail until it hovers over the plushie you want, then drop it. If the claw lands on a plushie it closes its grip — then watch the ride up, because wobbly rare prizes can slip free halfway. A successful grab is carried to the prize chute on the left and banks points based on the prize's rarity. You get 8 tokens, and every drop costs one token, so make each grab count. When the tokens run out, your haul is tallied.

Controls

Move the claw with the Left and Right arrow keys (or A/D). Press Space, the Down arrow, or the big DROP button to lower the claw. On touch screens, drag across the machine to slide the claw and tap it to drop. Enter or Space starts the game from the overlay.

Tips

Aim for the plushie's center — the claw grabs whatever is closest under it, and fat legendary prizes like the dragon are worth 150 points, so the risk pays. Grip is never guaranteed: legendaries slip about half the time, so grab two rares instead of gambling everything on one dragon. When a prize does slip, note where it landed — slipped plushies are easy marks on the next drop since nothing moved them away.

Scoring

Common plushies (teddy, frog, pig) score 10 points with a very safe grip. Uncommon plushies (bunny, octopus, fox) score 25. Rare plushies (unicorn, penguin, lion) score 60 but can wriggle free. Legendary dragons score 150 — the claw barely holds them. Missed drops score nothing, so spend your 8 tokens on clear targets.