Arcade game with RFID reader

A crane-style arcade game comprising:

• a housing;
• an enclosed prize chamber in the housing including a floor for supporting prizes, wherein the prizes comprise RFID tags with assigned point values;
• a grabber mechanism suspended above the floor;
• a controller located externally on the housing having a connection to the grabber mechanism to permit a player to control a position of the grabber mechanism above the floor whereby the player attempts to capture a prize from the prize chamber with the grabber mechanism and move the prize into an opening in the floor;
• a captured-prize storage area below the floor;
• a delivery passage within the housing in communication between the opening in the floor and the captured-prize storage area;
• an RFID reader adapted to read the RFID tag on a captured prize as the captured prize is moved past the RFID reader;
• a rotary unit within the delivery passage, said rotary unit positioned in communication with the opening in the floor to move the captured prize past the RFID reader towards the captured-prize storage area, whereby the rotary unit is positioned close enough to the RFID reader such that the RFID reader reads the RFID tag on the captured prize as the rotary unit rotates the captured prize past the RFID reader;
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• a recording device connected to the RFID reader to record the assigned point values of the RFID tags of captured prizes read by the RFID reader.