Players race to grab flying bills at Chiayi night market

Players race to grab flying bills at Chiayi night market

2026-03-02

A claw machine shop at Chiayi’s Wenhua Road Night Market has set up a new game. While inside a transparent booth, the player has 15 seconds to grab as many NT$100 bills as they can. But they can only catch bills that are flying around in the air while the machine blows them up from the floor. Players give it their all, seeing how much money they can walk away with.

Money flies around inside the machine as a player tries to catch as many bills as they can before time runs out.

The boss cheers for the players, who get to keep all the cash they can grab.

- When the bills start flying, you need to pay attention and grab them, then hold onto the money.

- How does it feel to have money flying around you?
- It’s my first time being smacked in the face by money.

Getting smacked in the face by money is a novel experience. The rules of the game are simple: After customers have won six items from claw machines, they get a ticket.

Staff pick one of these tickets from a box, and that person gets 15 seconds inside the machine to grab as much money as they can.

Staff
Arcade
After getting six items of any kind, people can participate in the money-grab game for free. They get to take home all six items they got too.

Chiayi’s Wenhua Road Night Market is already popular for its delicious street food, and now more people are coming to see how just much money they can grab.

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鈔票滿天飛! 嘉義文化夜市"15秒抓錢樂" 體驗被錢打臉

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嘉義的文化夜市娃機店，推出新花招，真人可以在大型透明罩的機台裡面，抓百元大鈔，限時15秒，抓多少給多少，不過只有限時15秒，而且，只能抓快速飄盪在空中的現鈔，不能撈掉在底下的現鈔，玩家都奮力一搏，增添逛夜市的趣味性。

人在裡面，鈔票漫天飛舞，恨不得可以像八爪章魚一樣，把不斷往上噴的現鈔，都網羅到手。

老闆不斷喊加油，抓到的現金，通通帶回家。

- 飛起來的時候，注意看，然後要直接用抓的，然後後面用抱的，把錢抱住

- 那個錢飛在你身邊的感覺怎麼樣
- 我第一次被錢打臉

被錢給打臉，可是全新的感受。遊戲規很簡單，先要夾到6樣商品，就可領一張摸彩券。

工作人員再從摸彩盒抽出一位民眾，限時15秒開抓。

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“夾滿六樣，任夾六樣就可以來參加，免費的抓現金，然後夾到的六樣商品，照樣帶回家”

嘉義文化路觀光夜市，美食就已經很吸引人了，現在遊戲玩法推陳出新，發財夢，大家都有興趣。

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