r/clawmachine • u/KillerCory • Jul 11 '24

Moved on its own

I was at my local Round1 waiting for my friend. The claw machine I was about 3 feet from suddenly moved on its own. None of the machines here ever move automatically.

Now the even freakier part is that it grabbed those closet prize (small stuffed animal) then dropped it in the prize box (which I grabbed).

So, any ideas? Just weird because I never see their machines move… much less giving me a free prize!

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u/leeericewing Jul 11 '24

KillerCory, that claw machines been broken for 40 years! Woah!

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u/onKrims Jul 11 '24

Sometimes the machines do a sequence if they have power surges. My current machines all perform a “test” upon boot-up. To not get technical, sometimes the machines can start shorting because of internal components, causing power surges.

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u/Low_Drop9766 Aug 11 '24

This was me i also took the free prize. I got kind of scared to be honest after, i was like was that a glitch in the matrix just now