those doll catching machines in arcade is all rigged?

• Mengna Lisha

  27 Apr 08, 20:26

  http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=20024

   read about it... no wonder so hard to catch. the kiap kiap thing always like never grip strong enough, then the doll just slip out of its grasp. i wasted quite a bit of money on this last time. now i know its rigged. sometimes if u lucky the arm grip is strong, then u can catch. sometimes its weak, then cant catch... depend on luck one, doesnt mean ur skill good can catch. wahkao

   see this video too, it explains all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JejiJ-RgLVc

  

   

  

• FireIce

  27 Apr 08, 20:28

  wow! stomp!!!!

• ChoCoChips

  27 Apr 08, 20:31

  of cuz rigged la.

  1 doll more than 1 dollar leh.

  u think they so nice give u catch meh?

  i think is after a certain amout of times, say 150,

  den the grips becomes stronger and u got chance to catch one.

  they are nt charity leh, haha

• FireIce

  27 Apr 08, 20:32

  this one not liu xing oredi lah
  
  tt time liu xing the sweep sweets one
  u can get one whole black zhua long (for rubbish type) of sweets
  then the ultimate prize is some lan pi soft toy or dunno wat kiddy cartoon handbag tt kind of thing

• eagle

  27 Apr 08, 20:34

  Taiwan ones and Genting ones, my sis can do almost 100% hit rate leh... Heh heh

• ChoCoChips

  27 Apr 08, 20:34

  my friend last time tio a handphone.

  sibeh lucky leh

• FireIce

  27 Apr 08, 20:35

  go genting play catch doll so waste time leh
  
  i spents 3 days 3 nights like an auntie, hogging the slots machines

• Mengna Lisha

  27 Apr 08, 20:37

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  go genting play catch doll so waste time leh
  
  i spents 3 days 3 nights like an auntie, hogging the slots machines

  u are auntie in the first place wat

• maurizio13

  27 Apr 08, 20:38

   

  now then you know it's rigged, a bit slow right.

• alwaysdisturbed

  27 Apr 08, 20:52

  Originally posted by maurizio13:

   

  now then you know it's rigged, a bit slow right.

  
  never too late to know.

  anyway they adjusts the speed of the arms retracting upwards or the speed of the 'ufo' to the dropoff point. for the arms, if you realise, the faster it goes, when the arms are retracting, the harder it'll hit at the top, hence causing the 'captured' soft toy to fall out. for the ufo, it will move faster and the arms will start swinging causing the soft toy to fall off too.

• faith07

  27 Apr 08, 21:24

  So sad to know it is rigged..

  But nevertheless, i still like to try my luck only when it looks very easy then i will play. or else i don play liao.. can really waste alot of money catching those little dolls..

• cuddles

  27 Apr 08, 21:43

  Originally posted by eagle:

  Taiwan ones and Genting ones, my sis can do almost 100% hit rate leh... Heh heh

  ya! taiwan ones very good.. guarantee win somemore after 5 catch if you don't get any. each try S$0.50 but those in ximending ones are kind of like singapore's one.. grip very loose..

  their toys are better quality than here at least for S$0.50 and the sure win guarantee.

• alleggerita

  27 Apr 08, 21:53

  If they don't rig it, they lose money leh. You think arcade companies are stupid? 

• Cowbaycowboo

  27 Apr 08, 21:56

  hmmm......*looking at my 2 cupboard full of dolls*

• ORIGAMIST

  27 Apr 08, 22:17

  Originally posted by Mengna Lisha:

  http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=20024

   read about it... no wonder so hard to catch. the kiap kiap thing always like never grip strong enough, then the doll just slip out of its grasp. i wasted quite a bit of money on this last time. now i know its rigged. sometimes if u lucky the arm grip is strong, then u can catch. sometimes its weak, then cant catch... depend on luck one, doesnt mean ur skill good can catch. wahkao

   see this video too, it explains all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JejiJ-RgLVc

  

   

  

  There is a scientific show called " Brainiac " that explore all thing scientific.  One of the episode talk about this kind of machine.  There is a way to beat the odd.  You need to study by watching other play with it first.  Count the nos of tries it take before a catch can be done.  Then you wait with till that count and you go for it, sure to win one.  Reason, the arm of the catch is "strengthen " after a specified numbers of tries..  The operator had set the "quota" one....

• brokenluv

  27 Apr 08, 22:27

  i went tokyo and they have arcades with many many machines that require different tactics, somemore the prizes are more tempting.

• wonderamazement

  27 Apr 08, 22:35

  oh course la, otherwise how to earn money... got watch brainiac before?

• n0x

  27 Apr 08, 22:37

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  go genting play catch doll so waste time leh
  
  i spents 3 days 3 nights like an auntie, hogging the slots machines

  
  and the slots machine is also a high class form of the doll catching machine

  due to pay out only after a certain number of tries..

  so u mean go genting must get conned by higher class machines ah?? haha

• wonderamazement

  27 Apr 08, 22:39

  Originally posted by n0x:

  
  and the slots machine is also a high class form of the doll catching machine

  due to pay out only after a certain number of tries..

  so u mean go genting must get conned by higher class machines ah?? haha

  
  in a sense... i dun think can be called "conned", should be gambling.

• BeRt^.^

  27 Apr 08, 22:40

  nothing is free

• mrwonderful

  28 Apr 08, 06:01

  should go casino play european roulette. its fun and probability of winning $ is fixed.

• xaih

  28 Apr 08, 10:31

  it was rigged all along.

  can see what,the grips sooooo loose!

  cheater machine.

• noahnoah

  28 Apr 08, 10:35

   

  of course need to cheat lar

  or else how to earn money

  everyone cheating one another in this world de

• meltz

  28 Apr 08, 10:48

  watch brainiaic and u will know how the whole thing work .. is all set in the mahchine how many doll will be caught in a day

• aHGer^83

  28 Apr 08, 11:58

  i tink it's all abt skill bah....

  if u got the skill, no matter how bad the grip is, u still can catch toys mah...

  last week at AMK hub, the arcade there.. this guy very skillful lor... everyone standing ard the machine can see that the grip is not closed one.. got some gap n it's very lose type one.. but he $1 catch 1 toy...