Claw machines, or crane games, are a classic feature of any respectable arcade - they're a blast to play but notoriously tricky to conquer. Typically coin-operated, these machines are manipulated ...

I love taking my son to the arcade, sharing with him the games I grew up playing and the workarounds that can help improve his odds of winning. On one such trip, we spent too much time and money ...

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 ...

Christopher Salazar could not stop with the plush round Kool-Aid Man. The 11-year-old claw machine master had to have more. So, outside a South Side strip mall on a recent early evening, he and his ...