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Reflections on the Claw Game

Reflections on the Claw Game

And how fundraisers often get caught chasing oversized stuffed bananas.

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Brad Smith
May 23, 2022
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If you’ve ever been to an arcade, you’ve seen the claw game. Early versions of the claw game asked the user to maneuver a tiny mechanical steam shovel over a sea of corn kernels and drop the shovel into the corn with the hope of filching out hidden silver dollars. The scheme was so popular - and lucrative - that by the 1950s the US Government considere…

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