How Can We Win Our First Authentic Plush Toy from Toreba?
The human experience comes with a truckload of glitches, and very few of them begin with user manuals or walk through guides. Mostly, we learn through the lens of others and mistakes of our own. We share our respective gameplay and strategies to help each other transcend the ruts of the present and imagine more possibilities for the future. In today’s writing, I will share my personal experience of playing Toreba, accompanied with practical means of actually winning some of your favourite plush toys and figurine boxes. As usual, I come from a place where I walk my talk and not simply talk my talk. By no means am I an expert in the game, but I can safely gauge my win rates to be at least one item per day. Conspicuously, we all know that in order to get better at running, we ought to run often. It is easy to run often, but it is not as easy to improve on running. Similarly, in order to get better at Toreba, we ought to play often. On the same note, it is easy to play often, but it is not as easy to improve on winning.
I believe the gap is in the details and most of us are not willing to dig deep enough to unravel the less exciting bits of what we do.
A little introduction about Toreba — It is a free app that allows you to play claw machine online. You are entitled to 1 free play per day. If you have spent in the game before, you are entitled to 2 free plays per day, along with the privilege to queue after players who are playing. When you win a prize, you simply need to wait for 7 days to cart out and the prize arrives at your doorstep in 2 weeks for free. All prizes are authentic. The average price of a plush soft toy goes between $15 — $30, whereas the average price of a figurine box goes between $20 — 40. The cost of your happiness when you win your favourite plush? Priceless.
As with many things in life, you get nothing but disappointment on a bad day and you get many pleasant surprises on a good day.
1. Figure Out Your Favourite Setup
There are many different setups in Toreba. Some setups require you to poke the item down. Some setups require you to pull the toy to the right / left. Some setup require you to flip the toy over and into the chute. Some setups have big toys with strong claw power with little distance covered to the chute, and some setups have small toys with weak claw power with more distance covered to the chute. Some toys are more rollable, whereas some other toys are wrapped in plastic. Whatever the case may be, we need to bear in mind that different setups have different play styles, and we definitely have certain play styles which we feel most comfortable with. If you’re not confident of a certain play style, even if it is only for a tiny bit, my advice is not to play it. If you’re confident of a certain play style, but you are unsure of the right method to win the prize, you got to study.
The important point here is to understand and acknowledge that different play styles have a fixed specific winning method.
2. Study The Winning Replays
Toreba Prize Watcher is your best friend for the game. If you’re unsure of the right method to win, you got to study the winning replays. Even if you’re sure of the right method to win, you still need to study the winning replays to mark down the tiniest of details you may have missed out on. Yes, your favourite Hello Kitty plush is millimeters from dropping off the edge, but do you know exactly how far off the edge it needs to be so that the next play will be part of the winning replays? We’re not talking about luck or probability of the item falling into the chute. The emphasis here is about having 100% confidence in doing the correct play at the correct time at the correct position to elicit a cause and effect that has occurred in the past 10–20 winning replays you have watched. Watching, scrutinizing and understanding winning replays should be as natural as holding up a pair of tongs and clicking them a couple of times.
Victory is less about if, and more about when.
3. Pay Attention To The Nature Of The Game
Put yourself into the shoes of the physical assistants managing the claw machines. First, they start by introducing a new setup. It may be a new toy or a different style of game play. Chances are, the game play has been tested a couple of times by the admin to deem whether the prizes can be won. Upon a rough estimation, the new setup is introduced. At this point in time, the claw strength is normally too strong or too weak. There are usually little to no winning replays for new machines, hence we need to pay attention to details. Is the claw so strong that it brings the toy a little too far than it should be? Which claw has more strength than the other? Is the toy too big for this setup? Can any components of the setup be potentially leveraged in a manner where the admins have yet to test it out?
If an item is won in only a couple of tries, the admins would naturally increase the difficulty of the setup through various means. They may do things such as lowering the claw strength, putting the toy horizontally instead of vertically, wrap the toy in plastic or change the entire setup totally. The common mistake that new players tend to do is not recognizing that the setup has been nerfed. Sometimes the change can be as little as swapping a different colour/design of the same item (E.g. instead of a Pikachu wearing a hat, the new Pikachu now holds a wand), and the variant may potentially lead to a different method to win the prize. The reason? The two Pikachus weigh differently.
The tiniest detail can make a whole lot of difference.
If you’ve played Toreba on mobile data rather than Wifi, then you should be awfully familiar with how a 0.2 second delay can lead you to the difference between hugging your favourite Sumikko Gurashi and wailing about it. I believe if we can spend time and effort to understand the intricacies of the game of Toreba and have eventual success with it, we can do the same with the game of Life too. Often, it is not the drastic moves that lead us to be a lot more happy, fulfilled or rich. Most of the time, it is the little things that add up to make us want to look forward to tomorrow. It may be a balcony facing the sea, a colleague who is ridiculously hilarious or two toast breads with half-boiled eggs for breakfast. Once we pay attention to the details of our lives, that is when we start to write our very own walk-through guides.
