SINGAPORE: When it comes to claw machines, most of us have walked away empty-handed more times than we’ve won. And in Hong Kong, where claw machine arcades have become almost ubiquitous, a recent rise ...

A claw machine is a fixture at every arcade. Also called crane games, they demand players to feed in money or tokens to operate a claw-shaped mechanism that grabs a prize, hoists it up, and then ...

Mike Nay bought his first claw machine during the pandemic to pass the time. Once he had the strategy down and arcades reopened, he was winning hundreds of plushies. He learned he could make a profit ...