Drumond Park’s brand new table-top game, Crazy Claw, brings the never-forgotten thrills of the gaming arcade to youngsters aged 5 and up! Crazy Claw (rrp £22.99, for 2-4 players) is a colourful, action packed game of boiling, bouncing balls and a grabbing claw, operated by each child in turn.
We were sent a copy of the game to try out, and one lucky In The Playroom winner will have a chance to win a Crazy Claw game for their own family too! (Enter via the Gleam widget at the end of this post)
My kids are always interested in claw arcade machines when we see them out and about, at service stations or in the arcades at bowling, so it’s a really fun and different idea to have a game based on this at home!
To play the game, first you need to set up the Crazy Claw machine, and put the tokens into each of the balls.
You fold down the claw machine each time to store it back in the box, but the rest of this set up is one time only.
Once everything is set up, each player takes one of the four cards which show the three tokens you need to collect from the Crazy Claw machine:
Each player takes turns with the claw, while the other players jiggle around the contents of the machine using the levers at the sides. Once the player manages to grab a ball, they open it up and see if the token matches one of their pictures on their card.
If it does, they get to keep this token, but if not then they have to put it back and try again next time.
The claw is quite easy to use. My 5 year old managed it without any frustration. I would say the recommended age of 5+ is about right, and he really enjoyed the game.
One small improvement I would suggest is that we would have liked there to be more of the cards included for a bit more variety while playing. However, I think there’s quite a lot of potential to make up your own ideas with this game. I am planning to print out some cards of my own for different topics like sight words, Arabic letters, or anything I want to learn with the kids in a fun way – you can easily put your own things inside the balls and play the game in the same way, so it might be a handy one to make learning fun – as well as playing it just as it comes.
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my daughter would have so much fun with htis!
I can imagine lots of laughs & fun with this game, my grandsons would love it!
My 2 girls would love this for christmas
This looks like great fun!!!!!
All my four would love this!
This looks like good fun!
Looks like great fun – reminds me of the arcade games on holiday xx
Another fun game for all the family.
I would love to win this for my son, as I know he would love it. It closely resembles the egg machines that half of my salary seems to go on lol
This looks like so much fun!
looks great fingers crossed x
This game looks fantastic! To me it reminds me of all the seaside holidays I had as a child and hours in the arcades looking into the grabber machines wishing of the soft toys in them! I’d have loved this when I was younger – I think i’d love to play it now in fact!
This looks like a lot of fun, my daughter has seen it advertised and really likes the look of it 🙂
Looks fun, my girls would enjoy this, they enjoy going to the arcades
this lokks like the kids would have great fun with it
looks a great game
i love this game it reminds me of the ones at the arcade! My friend at school, her dad used to have to go and fix them sometimes and he used to tighten the grips on all the claws so everyone would win! 😉
the girls would love to play this – but I bags first go
this looks fun! ideal for our little Grandson
This looks like a really fun game!
looks a fun game
Looks like lots of fun
It looks fab, thanks for the chance.
Looks a great game, my Grandchildren would enjoy playing.
My girls would love this Crazy Claw game!
Looks like a fun game to play with my nephews
This looks really fun and entertaining
very novel and looks good fun for the kids
Looks so much fun. I would happily play it with my son…
My nieces would have hours of fun playing with this.
looks fantastic- the kids will love it
It looks great fun. My friends’ children would love it
My daughter would love this she loves the claw games at the arcade.
This looks like a lot of fun xx
This looks good! My little boy would have so much fun with this x
My Daughter Isla would love this..so would I!
My boys always want to play the claw at arcades – I can see this being on their Xmas lists!
This looks like a fun game – the claw games at the arcade always look like they’re impossible to win.
This would be great for my girls, they are 13, 8 and 5 and my eldest always gloats about winning. It’s nice that there is no unfair advantage and all have a chance to win despite their age.
My son would love this!
looks like great fun
my kids cant wait to play this they think it looks brill it is on their xmas list
I would love to play this with my Grandson, lots of fun
This looks like great.fun!
What a cool game!
Sounds like great fun …
Can’t wait to play this with the kids
This looks right up my sons street
serious fun for the family
The claw machines are always so frustrating, this looks a lot better!
Looks like great fun, doubt my son would let anyone else have a go!
I think my 7 year old would really enjoy this x
It looks good fun! We love the teddy claw machines at the beach.
Seems like a game which would entertain the children. They can be quite competitive.
I love this game, it is great for eye – hand coordination
My children love the grab machine at the seaside – so this would be fab x
looks like a un game for all family
Would be great to play with my grandkids when they visit
this reminds me of the grabbers for teddies when we were little x
My grandsons would love this fun looking game
heck my daughter would think this is the best game ever
my little nephew would love this
This looks great fun, wish they would make a coin pusher game too 🙂
I like how we could play together when my nieces visit on Sundays.
Seeing it so many times advertised on tv lately. Look such a wonderful game to play as a family and have fun.
This game looks amazing! My girls love grabber machines.
Looks great fun
Looks fun and might have better luck with this game ha
Looks like fun. I think I would put sweets inside the balls for an extra surprise
This game looks like so much fun!!
I love how different it is compared to other games! Very challenging.
This game looks great fun. xx
This game looks rally fun, my kids would love it
This would remind the girls of their fantastic holidays in Devon
Crazy Claw looks like a fun game for all the family!
My son pretends he is a grab machine (too frequently!), he is obsessed. he would love this game.
My nephew would love this game
This looks a great game, It reminds me of the fun arcade games at the seaside my children play in the summer
This game looks lots of fun – I’m sure my son would LOVE it
my grandaughter would love this x
It looks fun and different to other games
My nephew saw this advertised on TV and has been begging for it ever since.
wow this is top on our christmas list we always try to add onto our game collection at christmas time and this looks like it would fast become a firm family favourite.
this looks like alot of fun !
I think I might be fighting the grandchildren off to have a go myself on this game
This game looks like so much fun for all the family.
This game looks so much fun, I know my little boy would love it.
My kids would love playing this game as they like them at the arcades
Looks like great fun, I’m sure my son will want to add other things to the balls and make up his own game.
This looks like a fun game
Looks a lot of fun especially for the boys
This looks like great fun
Need the same sort of skills as Operation
I know my grandchildren would have a lot of fun with this game.
The twins and their cousins would have great fun playing this.
Looks so much fun
my daughter would love playing this at christmas
Sounds like this game will provide children hours of fun.
My boys love these type of arcade games so think this would be a big hit
It looks a good game for over christmas
This looks great fun.x
My son would love this
this game looks like great fun, i would give this to my daughter
Looks fun my kids would love this
looks like great fun, and a little easier than the real arcade game 😉
It’s on my boys Christmas list, he’s craving a go at it haha
It looks like a great game which would be suitable for all ages to be able to play together.
This looks like a fun game.
My daughter would love this
Great family fun 🙂
Looks like a great fun game!
I would love to try it out! My daughter would love it too 🙂
This game looks like so much fun!
Looks like it would be a fun game
My son would love this
my kids would love to play this together x
Great game – reminds me of fun days at the seaside arcades when I was a child!
It looks like hours of fun fab!!
A great game to play with my 4 year old & 7 year old – looks like we would have lots of laughs.
I think the whole family would enjoy this but I can see the balls being swapped for other goodies during use? 😉
This game looks like brilliant fun to play
My grandchildren and I would have fun playing this 🙂
The game looks like it would be fun for all the family x
this looks like so much fun
Looks like a fun arcade game to play at home
It looks like so much fun
Looks like a fun game to play together
Would love to win for my daughter please.
Looks like a fun family game…thanks for the chance! :0
Our family always play games at Christmas and this one would be perfect for us!
This looks like good fun!
looks like fun
This looks such great fun
Oh wow this looks like so much fun 😀 I’m sure my 4 munchkins would love this x
This looks like great fun for all ages
looks like the perfect game to play over christmas with the kids
Fabulous Game for Christmas presents, boys or girls , takes me back to holidays by the sea.
This looks like great fun! My nephew would love it.
This looks like so much fun, I think the kids (and me) would love it
This game looks lots of fun my grandsons would love it x
This looks like great fun!
This game looks so much fun
this looks so much fun and I know my lot would love this , (it says I haven’t tweeted but I definitely have x
This looks like great fun to play during the Christmas holidays!
My girls would love this game. Looks a lot of fun x
My 2 boys would love this. Perfect for Xmas day ????
My grandchildren would love to play this over the festive period
My 2 girls would absolutely love this game! It looks like so much fun! It’s the perfect family game to play at Christmas time!
Looks like great fun 🙂
great prize
my children love board games and we do like to play as a family this games looks like lots of fun
I just showed this to 1 of the girls at work – she has nieces and nephews the same age as mine – we both said how much fun it looks – can see my nephew really getting stuck in to this.
what a cool game
this looks so much fun would love to play it with my daughter 🙂
This looks so much fun, a good game to get out on Christmas Day. I think it would keep all of the family amused, adults and children!
This looks like a lot of fun for everyone!
My kids love games like this, looks heaps of fun
Looks really fun to play
Be nice to keep trying till I win something rather than running out of coins like when I’m at the seaside
my son loves this type of game!
Brings back memories of old arcade games,……didn’t have a lot of success on them to be honest. Perfect game to play with my grandson!
My boy and me would have loads of fun playing this fingers crossed x
it looks like a lots of fun filled hours
this looks like hours of fun
This looks infuriating yet fun!
I’d love this game for my 5 year old nephew for Christmas, I know he’d be thrilled!
My children would love to play this. It looks great fun.
this looks like great fun love arcade games
this looks like it could be a lot of fun
my daughter would love to play this x
my kids love the grab machines inside pubs and on holiday,
so this is such a fab idea!
LOVE BOARD GAMES
this looks so much fun 🙂
Both my sons have this on their xmas list
This looks really fun. My son would love it!
This game looks awesome!! Arcade claws are a lot of hard work but this looks really fun 🙂
Fun prize, thanks for the chance x