Clawee is a claw machine game, played online on real arcade machines controlled remotely through video streaming via a mobile app or computer. The game was invented by the

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i company Gigantic, which operates the machines in a warehouse in

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, Israel.Hacohen, Hagai (April 20, 2021)
Clawee: The arcade machines in Israel you can play anywhere in the world
Jerusalem Post. The name derives from claw machine games, in which players utilize a handle to maneuver a claw trying to catch items.Blum, Brian (February 17, 2021)
Missing arcade games? There’s an app for that
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The company

Gigantic was established in 2017 by Ron Brightman, its CEO, and Oded Frommer. The company has 60 employees, with offices in

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.Orbach, Meir (December 7, 2020)
Gigantic raises $7 million to expand online transformation of real-world arcade games

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. It has a warehouse in

where 250 arcade machines are stored and being operated 24 hours a day, each day throughout the year. The machines are handled by a team of employees, who fill them and check for errors. The company built its own machines and added

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s, sensors and

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s enabling the players to have a real-time view and control of the machines. Gigantic has raised $9 million, the main investor being Union Tech Ventures and NFX, whose general partner is Gigi Levy-Weiss.

The app

Clawee can be played in fourteen countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. According to Sensor Tower, in October 2020, Clawee had over 100,000 downloads with aggregate revenue of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Approximately 70 percent of the players are women. In each moment, there are around 200,000 players on the site, and twofold that number are watching. As of February 2021, the app has been

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ed 8 million times. The company ships over 100,000 prizes each month from its warehouses in the United States and China. Clawee won the Samsung Galaxy Store 2020 award in the category of Best Indie Game of the Year. According to the

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ger PatahrakPlays, “This is probably the best game if you are looking to do a lot of wins. In my experience, this game is all about skill and timing… it’s a pretty straightforward game, to be honest, the more you play it, the better you get an idea about its mechanics, and it does seem pretty fair… This game has been a game I have been looking for a long time since it’s a perpetual simulation of playing claw machines.”

The game

Users install the app for free from

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, or login from the desktop to Clawee's website. They buy tokens, choose an arcade machine and start to play. Each machine has a different prize with different cost. As beginners, they play simple games for cheap prizes.(11 November 2020)
Meet Clawee: The app that lets you play real claw machines
Female First. When players catch a prize, they can claim it and the prize will be delivered to their home, or they can exchange it for coins to play more games. They can get coins by inviting friends or if they log in on a daily basis.Wilson, Glenn (May 13, 2020)
Clawee is a real-life claw machine that you can play at home for prizes
Gamezebo. Players can become VIP members for 4 dollars and then they will have free shipping for all their wins and the ability to play on the VIP machines, with more expensive prizes and unlock a daily

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. Players can navigate the claw only in two directions: sideways or toward the cabinet's hindpart and try to drop the prize above the chute hole. They can watch the game from one of the two cameras located in separate angles: one in the front, and the other on the side. They can watch others play and view the last winning video of each machine. The prizes include dolls, jewelry, gadgets, plushies, games, home appliances, makeup, masks, memorabilia, accessories,

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and stuffed toys. Besides claw machines, there are also football, basketball and golf machines and a machine in which a toy gun shoots plastic clowns.Ben ishay, Matan (March 24, 2021)
Meet Calwee
Sports Channel (Israel).

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External links

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