Hook a Duck, high strikers, tabletop skill games, giant Connect 4, helter skelters and a four-bay Grand Carnival stall - 42 traditional fairground games from one supplier, in our own warehouse, on our own vans.
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We carry 42 carnival and fairground games under one roof in Rotherham - side stalls, tabletop skill games, giant garden games, inflatable attractions, test-your-strength towers, prize wheels and helter skelters. Prices start at £25 for a tombola drum and go up to £795 for a Grand Carnival four-bay inflatable stall or a helter skelter, with most of the well-known side stalls and tabletop skill games sitting in the £295-£395 band.
It's sometimes called funfair game hire, fairground game hire, side stalls, or fete games - it's the same idea whichever name you know it by. The games that have been turning up at village fetes, seaside piers and travelling fairs for the best part of a century, plus a few that didn't exist ten years ago.
Everything is our own stock, bought outright and maintained in our 25,000 sq ft warehouse, not sourced in through a third party. We've been hiring out carnival games from Sheffield since 1999.
Hook a Duck with 25 prizes and a staffed operator from £495. A four-bay Grand Carnival inflatable stall from £795 - Ring Toss, Fish Bowl, Ball in a Bucket, Tin Can Alley, all in one unit. Plus a darts fun fair game, prize wheel, tombola drum and bingo machine.
Six tabletop carnival games at £325 each: Roller Bowler (the hump game), Flap Attack, King of the Hill, Whip n Skip, Strike Zone (table bowling by Wertz Werkz, Milwaukee) and a 7ft rotating labyrinth Maze Runner. All run without power, brandable, and fit on a 6ft trestle table.
Two versions. The traditional mechanical High Striker from £295 - 10ft tower, 10-100 scale, no power needed, adjustable difficulty. And the Ultimate High Striker from £795 - a King of Hammer 11 arcade unit by Andamiro with a 3.4m LED tower and digital scoring.
Giant Jenga from £40.84, Giant Connect 4 (the Feber Mega 4 in a Line, 42 oversized discs) from £40.83, Giant Operation (life-size Saw Bones), Giant Buzz Wire (Megawire), Giant Labyrinth, Maze Runner and Mega KerPlunk. Several are add-to items that boost a larger order.
An inflatable Connect 4 and Noughts & Crosses two-in-one from £195. The Ultimate Wipeout sweeper game (22ft x 22ft, eight players) from £695. Balloon Bomb Squad, Basketball Inflatable and Ballnado Grabber.
Two PIPA-tested inflatable helter skelters (round and square), 22ft tall, from £645. Whack a Mole, Whack a Zombie and Whack a Snowman arcade units from £445-£495. Plus Plinko, Shuffle Board, 9 Hole Crazy Golf and safe axe throwing.
Most carnival game hires aren't a single item - they're a row of stalls, a set of tabletop games or a mix of both with one or two bigger pieces as centrepieces.
A typical corporate fun day might have a High Striker and an inflatable Connect 4 drawing people across the field, a row of four or five tabletop games in a line - Roller Bowler, Flap Attack, King of the Hill, Whip n Skip and Strike Zone - and a Hook a Duck with a Prize Wheel at the end to hand out the swag.
A smaller charity fete or school fair might just take the Grand Carnival stall with its four built-in games, plus a tombola drum and a bingo machine.
For weddings and garden parties, the giant games - Connect 4 and Jenga - tend to go out together as a lawn-games set, sometimes with a Giant Operation or Giant Buzz Wire to add something competitive.
Everything can be dry hired (we deliver it, set it up, brief you and collect it) or staffed - our team runs the games so yours can focus on the event. Sophie hired a run of our carnival games and said:
We hired a number of pieces of carnival games from DB Entertainment and wow! It was incredible, great value for money, super friendly and punctual staff.
Most of the games can carry your logo or campaign artwork - the tabletop games take a printed bottom board from £95, a scoreboard top for £29 and a full front wrap for £69. The Giant Buzz Wire takes a full-height swappable vinyl panel, which we've done for Lenovo, Collect+, Red Nose Day and Locta Ltd (on their stand at an identity verification industry conference). The Prize Wheel is built to be fully wrapped - most clients run it in their own colours rather than the standard circus red and white. The Ultimate High Striker takes back panel branding from £99. For Plinko, the backboard print starts at £125.
Everything is printed, applied and removed by our in-house branding team, so there's no outside print supplier to coordinate with. More about our branding service.
A few games that get more attention than the rest:
The High Striker is still the one that draws the biggest crowd. It's mechanical, so it doesn't even need a socket - someone just picks up the mallet and has a go. We've got more than one, so you can run head-to-head across two towers. Wet & Forget hired one for a work event and said it was "a brilliant game to get everyone in the competitive mood and get everyone laughing together (and at each other)."
Strike Zone is an American tabletop bowling game made by Wertz Werkz in Milwaukee - three pucks, one lane, and the aim is to flip every pin on the rack with your three shots. It plays the same for a child as it does for an adult and the rules take about ten seconds.
The Grand Carnival stall is a full inflatable fairground facade with LED bulb lights, four game bays inside and RPII certification (Test ID 2354). It's the closest thing to a one-stop carnival in a single item.
And at the smaller end, Giant Connect 4 at £40.83 and Giant Jenga at £40.84 are add-to items that give an event something guests can wander up to without explanation. Kate Fletcher hired both for her wedding and said the games "were of great quality and delivery and collection was as advised and very straight forward", adding that they "really helped make our wedding the fun, relaxed day we wanted."
Branding costs: - Tabletop game bottom board: £95 - Scoreboard top: £29 - Full front wrap: £69 - Plinko backboard: from £125 - Ultimate High Striker back panel: from £99 - Prize Wheel full wrap: call for pricing - Giant Buzz Wire front panel: call for pricing
Delivery charges and minimum order values may apply. Multiple items on one delivery brings the per-item cost down.
From our 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18, we deliver carnival games across the UK. South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, the East Midlands and the North East are all standard runs.
We deliver regularly to NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central, Olympia London, Harrogate Convention Centre, SEC Glasgow, Leeds First Direct Arena and ACC Liverpool.
Closer to home, we're a regular at Barnsley Metrodome, Penistone Showground, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Newark Showground and the Yorkshire Event Centre.
Europe-wide delivery is available for larger packages. If you're building a multi-game package, one delivery covers the lot.
Most of the tabletop games and side stalls don't need it. The High Striker, Roller Bowler, Flap Attack, King of the Hill, Whip n Skip, Strike Zone, Giant Jenga, Giant Connect 4 and Giant Operation all run without a socket or a generator. The Giant Buzz Wire runs from an internal battery - light only or light and buzzer, whichever suits your venue. The inflatables - Ultimate Wipeout, Helter Skelter, Grand Carnival, Inflatable Connect 4 - need a blower, and we can supply a generator alongside if your venue doesn't have mains nearby. The Ultimate High Striker runs off a standard 13A socket.
The standard High Striker is the traditional mechanical version - painted 10-100 scale, a real bell at the top, 10ft tower, from £295, no power needed. The Ultimate High Striker is an arcade unit - a King of Hammer 11 by Andamiro, 3.4m LED tower with digital scoring, runs off a 13A socket, from £795. Both have adjustable difficulty so children and adults can play on the same unit.
Most of the tabletop and garden games can be dry hired - we deliver them, set them up, show your team how they work and collect them afterwards. The inflatables and higher-value items like the Grand Carnival, Ultimate Wipeout and Helter Skelter come staff-operated as standard. If you want an operator on a particular game that doesn't include one by default, just ask when you enquire.
For a corporate fun day with a few hundred guests over an afternoon, six to eight games spread across side stalls, tabletop skill games and one or two bigger pieces works well - say a High Striker, Hook a Duck, a Prize Wheel and four or five tabletop games. For a village fete or school fair with a steady flow all day, a Grand Carnival stall (four games in one) plus three or four extras is about right. Tell us your numbers and the space you've got and we'll recommend what tends to work.
