Stephany Falcon couldn’t believe her luck. In just 15 minutes at a Manhattan arcade, the 20-year-old college student and her boyfriend had collected three prizes from the rows of claw machines. After ...

Detroit Klaws is an arcade with only claw machines. There are different ways to play each machine in the arcade. Players can take home prizes such as kawaii plushies or Detroit professional sports ...

Shawn (right) and Rhiannan Carnline play a claw game with 17-month-old Harlow at DUCK! claw arcade in Eagan, Minn., on Jan. 9. When Zhengui “Z” Lin pitched the idea of an arcade filled with 100 claw ...

The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...