Pick The Pocket, Finders Keepers

Pick The Pocket is the name given to a new amusement arcade game. It works on the same principle as those glass enclosed machines where you manoeuvre a mechanical grab into place and try to pick up an object of value.

The difference here is that instead of the grab, there is a mechanical hand which you must control using the same very basic controls of left, right, forwards, backwards, lower, grip, raise. The other difference is that there is a pocket into which you must lower the hand to try and steal an item by closing the fingers and thumb on it and lifting it out. To prevent this being easily achieved, the pocket has sensors which cause an alarm to sound if the hand is detected at any stage of its journey of theft, so careful delicate control is required.

The Finders Keepers rewards are easier to get by trying to pick up one of the items on the floor of the machine, but every game also contains the big win trouser pocket holding a protruding wallet stuffed with cash, which is a real challenge as it can slip from the grasp very easily and is also hard to pull out.