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Two players competing head-to-head on the Strike a Light reaction table with red and blue illuminated dome buttons

Interactive & Electronic Game Hire

More than two dozen reaction walls, scoring games and skill challenges, from a £245 Speed of Light arena up to a £695 touchscreen quiz machine. All of it owned and maintained from our 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, branded in-house and delivered on our own vans, since 1999.

Our Interactive Games

The range

The thing that ties this category together is a score. Almost every game here records one - a reaction time, a hit count, a fastest clean run - and a score is what gives you a leaderboard, a tournament, a prize draw and a reason for someone to come back and have another go. You'll see the same sort of kit listed elsewhere as reaction games, electronic games or skill games; it's the same idea whichever label gets used.

The range starts at £245 for the Speed of Light, an enclosed inflatable arena where two players sprint between lit pods, and runs up to £695 for the quiz machine, a Paragon Pro touchscreen kiosk by Games Warehouse with around 24 games on it set to free play. Most of the reaction and skill games sit in the £345 to £495 band - a two-player Strike a Light at £395, a full-size Batak Pro at £495, a Spot On Challenge at £425 that'll push past 100 players an hour. We've been hiring out reaction and event games from Sheffield since 1999, and we own and maintain 95% of what goes out, so the kit turns up tested and ready with one delivery, one invoice and one contact for the whole event.

Types of interactive game we carry

  • Reaction walls

    The Batak Pro at £495 is a 12-target reaction wall designed by Dr D.W. Nelson and made by DN Publications in West Sussex - the same kind of machine F1 teams and Premier League clubs use for training. It has 30-plus programmes and a 30-second sprint that's been the standard competition format on stands for years. The Batak Lite at £395 is the compact 8-target version, better for children and tight spaces, and it can be wall-mounted to drop the depth to 130mm. We carry the largest stock of Batak units available for hire in the UK, so several on one stand or across two venues on the same day is straightforward.

  • Head-to-head reaction games

    Strike a Light at £395 is a two-player tabletop dome game with a 30-second race and a battle mode that sends lights to your opponent's side; the Chaos 4-player version at £395 scatters each player's colour across the whole board, first to 100 wins. The inflatable Reaction Table Game at £275 lays the same idea flat across a waist-height table, and the Speed of Light at £245 is an enclosed arena where two players sprint between planet-shaped pods.

  • Stop-the-light timing games

    The Vault at £425 is a solo game - stop an orbiting light in five red zones inside 30 seconds to crack the vault, across four difficulty levels - and it's one of our most-branded units, done up for Amazon, Hankook and the Cobra Network. Revolution at £425 does the same head-to-head for two players, Spot On Challenge at £425 has you stop a travelling light dead on the centre spot, and the Electronic Wheel of Fortune at £425 is an LED prize-wheel panel where a press of the trigger stops the lights on a numbered segment.

  • Steady-hand and skill games

    Beat the Buzzer at £395 is a tabletop buzz-wire game - 90-second rounds, three lives - also listed as a Mega Wire or Wire Loop Game, and it'll run on its own battery. The Maze Runner at £395 is a 7ft pedestal labyrinth steered by a wheel at the base, the Gold Bar Challenge at £395 asks you to lift a bar from a Perspex case one-handed without touching the base, and the Crack the Code safe at £395 has players guess a 4-digit code to win whatever's locked inside - it doubles as a lead-capture tool on a stand.

  • Prize-grab booths

    The Grab a Grand at £595 is a clear-acrylic cash cube by Game Works Creative in Ipswich, where a blower fires vouchers into a whirlwind and the player grabs as many as they can in 30 seconds. The Ballnado Grabber at £595 uses the same tank filled with foam balls instead - no stray notes drifting under the venue's fire doors - and goes out in a Snow Storm winter theme for Christmas events.

  • Active and sports reaction games

    The Interactive Football Challenge at £345 is a wireless LED target wall you kick or pass at, with a digital leaderboard; the IPS Podium Challenge at £345 scatters ten wireless light-up cones for players to chase. The Interactive Archery Arena at £499 is a two-player inflatable with IPS scoring targets and foam-tipped arrows, and the High Striker at £295 is the traditional test-of-strength tower with a mallet, a bell and a scale from 10 to 100. The digital Whack a Mole at £445 - and its Halloween Whack a Zombie twin at £495 - puts two players head-to-head with foam hammers and self-lighting targets.

  • Screen and table games

    The quiz machine at £695 is a Paragon Pro touchscreen kiosk by Games Warehouse with around 24 games on it, from pub quizzes to Deal or No Deal, set to free play with no cash handling. The 9-hole mini golf at £495 is a freestanding themed course that needs no power, and the commercial pool table at £650 is a 7ft slate English table on free play with no coin slot.

Built for leaderboards

A score is what keeps people at a stand. A round takes 30 seconds on most of these games - 90 on the buzz wire - so the queue moves and your team gets a steady stream of people to talk to while they wait, and the day's top score on a leaderboard is what brings them back for another attempt. Our magnetic Top Gear-style leaderboard at £69 sits between two machines and the scores write themselves up as the day goes on; several games - the football challenge, the podium challenge, the reaction tables - carry their own digital scoring on board.

You can run any of them as a one-off bit of fun or tie a few into a tournament across a day or a weekend. Wet & Forget hired the High Striker 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)" - which is the thing a leaderboard does that a static display can't.

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The Vault stop-the-light reaction game with a green LED ring and a 30-second challenge countdown, in play at an event

What's included

  • Delivery, setup and collection

    Delivered in our own vehicles by our own team, set up and tested before your event starts, and collected at the end - so there's no third-party courier between you and the kit when something needs sorting on the day.

  • £5M public liability insurance

    Full £5 million public liability insurance as standard, with indemnity to principal cover when our staff are supplied. Risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event.

  • Trained attendants

    Optional trained event attendants to run each game hands-free, so your own team can stay on conversations rather than explaining how the Batak works for the fortieth time that morning.

  • Power sorted

    Most games run from a single 13A socket. Beat the Buzzer and the Whack a Mole cabinet can run on internal batteries, and the high striker and mini golf need no power at all. If your venue has no mains, we can supply a generator and handle the distribution.

  • In-house branding

    Custom wraps, skirts, panels and button surrounds, all handled by our own team - artwork, print, application and removal. It starts at £49 for a set of Batak button surrounds and goes up to £199 for a full four-sided plinth wrap.

  • Corporate invoicing

    Invoicing with payment terms for corporate bookings - we've supplied reaction and exhibition games to stand builders, marketing agencies and corporate clients since 1999, so the procurement side is familiar ground.

Interactive games in stock
24+
Price range
£245—695
Years trading since 1999
25+
Equipment owned in-house
95%
Public liability insurance
£5M
Google rating, 200+ reviews
5/5

How the games get used

Most bookings are for exhibition stands, trade shows and brand activations, where the game is doing a job - pulling a queue and giving your team a reason to start a conversation. The galleries on the product pages show the sort of clients this kit goes out for: a Batak Pro branded for Amazon's UK FC Batak Challenge and for McVitie's Team GB, a Ballnado wrapped for AWS and Softcat at a tech conference, a Spot On Challenge in Amazon Prime colours, The Vault rebadged as "Crack the Hankook Vault" at a trade show, a Beat the Buzzer on a purpose-built cabinet for SentinelOne at a cyber-security expo, and a Crack the Code safe running a prize draw at SimplyBiz Group events.

Corporate fun days and Christmas parties are the next biggest slice - five or six games in a branded corner with a leaderboard running across the afternoon, and the whole thing booked on one invoice. Freshers fairs and university events tend to go for the reaction and competition games most, because the short rounds keep a long queue manageable; we've branded a Beat the Buzzer for Hallam Students Union's elections campaign at Sheffield Hallam. Schools, charities and community groups book a different mix and need the risk assessments and method statements that get them past their own approvals, which we supply for every booking.

They go out to plenty of private events too. Mrs Bailey, a repeat customer, booked one for a family party and said: "Speed of light was a fantastic family game for all ages." The games suit adults and children, indoors or under cover outdoors, on grass, hard standing or artificial turf.

Branding the games

A branded reaction game reads as part of the stand build rather than a bit of entertainment dropped in the corner. The game draws the crowd, and your branding is all over it when they get there - on the back panel behind a Batak wall, on the cabinet skirt of a tabletop game, on the plinth under a Crack the Code safe.

We do all of it in-house - artwork, print, application and removal - so there's no back-and-forth with an outside printer when a deadline's coming up. A set of Batak button surrounds starts at £49, a back panel from £69, a printed game skirt at £149, a Chaos top fascia at £175, and a full four-sided plinth at £199. Most games take branding on more than one surface, so there's usually a way to get your logo where it'll be seen.

We've built branded versions of most of the range over the years. A Chaos Strike a Light rebadged as "Whack-a-Waste" for Bywaters' recycling campaign, a Batak Lite relabelled as a "Frustrations Challenge" for MRC and in Northern's rail livery, a Maze Runner for Vanguard and Gallagher - the list is long enough that most requests are a variation on something we've already done.

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Crack the Code acrylic safe on a branded SimplyBiz Group plinth, stocked with prizes

The games

  • Batak Pro 12-target reaction wall branded for Amazon's UK FC Batak Challenge, with a national leaderboard alongside

  • Strike a Light two-player reaction table with illuminated red and blue dome buttons and a central digital score display

  • Ballnado Grabber branded for AWS and Softcat with a city-skyline wrap

  • The Vault stop-the-light game with a green LED ring and 30-second countdown

  • Whack a Mole digital cabinet branded for Specsavers with a leaderboard stand

  • Beat the Buzzer tabletop buzz-wire game with looping wire courses and a 90-second timer

  • Crack the Code acrylic safe on a lit branded plinth, stocked with prizes

  • High Striker test-of-strength tower with mallet, bell and a scale from 10 to 100

A repeat supplier, and where we deliver

We're a repeat supplier for Amazon - we've run reaction and prize games at their events and delivered to their sites across the UK on an ongoing basis, and they've had Batak walls, The Vault, Spot On, Revolution and the Grab a Grand among the rest. The same games go out to Specsavers' schools careers events, to SimplyBiz, McVitie's, Hankook, Bywaters, SentinelOne and Wavin, and to a fair spread of councils, schools and charities who need vetted suppliers with the paperwork in place.

From our warehouse in Rotherham we're five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18, which puts the major venues within reach without much lead time. We deliver regularly to NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central, Olympia London, Harrogate Convention Centre, ACC Liverpool, SEC Glasgow and Telford International Centre, and the same games work just as well at a freshers fair at Sheffield Hallam Sports Park or a charity event at the Penistone Showground. Europe-wide delivery is available for larger packages.

If you're building a wider event, these games sit alongside our exhibition games, arcade games, carnival games and sports games, so a games corner with a bit of everything goes on one booking.

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Whack a Mole digital cabinet branded for Specsavers with self-lighting targets, foam hammers and a leaderboard stand

Common questions

What's the difference between the Batak Lite and the Batak Pro?

The Batak Pro has 12 LED targets across a larger frame (about 2.08m wide) and over 30 programmes; the Batak Lite has 8 targets in a more compact unit (about 1.14m wide) with 7 programmes. The Lite's targets are closer together and easier to reach, which makes it the better choice when children are playing or floor space is tight, and it can be wall-mounted to drop the depth to 130mm. The Pro stretches players further and gives you more to escalate with across a multi-day event.

Which games keep a queue moving on a busy stand?

Almost all of them run a 30-second round - Strike a Light, the Batak walls, The Vault, Revolution, Spot On, the Whack a Mole - so each turn is over quickly and the line doesn't back up. The Spot On Challenge will handle past 100 players an hour. Beat the Buzzer runs a little longer at 90 seconds with three lives, but it still turns over fast enough for an exhibition stand. If you're expecting heavy footfall, the short-round reaction games are the ones to pick.

Can the games be branded and run as a leaderboard competition?

Yes to both. We wrap the games in your branding in-house - button surrounds from £49, a printed skirt at £149, a full plinth at £199 - and most units take branding on more than one surface. For a competition, a magnetic Top Gear-style leaderboard at £69 sits between two machines and the day's top scores get written up as they come in, which is what brings people back for another go. Several games carry their own on-board digital scoring as well.

Do the games need mains power?

Most run from a single standard 13A socket, which is deliberate - exhibition organisers don't hand out heavy supplies as standard. Beat the Buzzer and the Whack a Mole cabinet can run on internal batteries, and the high striker and the 9-hole mini golf need no power at all. If your venue has no mains where you need it, we can bring a generator and sort the distribution - just mention it when you enquire.