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A player grabbing vouchers inside the lit Grab a Grand tank under blue and purple stage lighting

Grab a Grand

Hire from £595.

Grab a Grand Cash Cube

You step into the clear tank, the door shuts, and a blower fires a whirlwind of vouchers up around you. The digital timer on top counts down from about thirty seconds while you grab as much as you can out of the air and drop it in the box. Most people will recognise it from the Crystal Dome at the end of the Crystal Maze, and that is more or less the idea, brought down to a size that fits on a stand.

It is a cylindrical booth, around 1.2m across and 2.2m tall, with a polished chrome frame, clear acrylic walls and a hinged door. A colour-change LED ring lights the inside, and we can set it to a single fixed colour to match your branding. The unit is made in the UK by Game Works Creative, and we own and maintain ours in-house, so it turns up tested and ready to run.

You will see it called a cash cube, a cash grabber, a money machine or a money booth. It is the same thing under all those names.

Get a Quote
A player in a hi-vis vest grabbing red and gold vouchers inside the tank, with the red countdown timer overhead
On the clock
30s
Players an hour
30
Public liability cover
£5M
Years in events
25+

What you fill it with, and branding

The draw is whatever is flying around inside, and you decide what that is. You do not have to put real money in, and most people do not. It works better with lightweight printed vouchers or tokens, because you control who wins. You can drop a few winning tokens in among blanks, print your own branded notes, or fill it with gift vouchers so every grab is worth something. Whatever someone catches and drops in the box is theirs.

The tank panel and the leaderboard both take your artwork, printed and applied by our in-house team. We ran it for Amazon's Peak Tour Challenge across their UK sites, wrapped as the "Cash Grabber" with a daily leaderboard chalked up at each one as people came off shift to have a go. There is more on our branding service.

Grab a Grand wrapped as the Amazon Peak Tour Challenge Cash Grabber, with a matching leaderboard alongside

Where it works

  • Exhibition stands and brand activations

  • Staff incentives and employee events

  • Shopping centre and retail promotions

  • Product launches and roadshows

  • Freshers fairs and open days

  • Christmas and seasonal promotions

A queue that does not go down

The tank does the work of pulling a crowd. People stop to watch someone flail about grabbing at vouchers, then they want a go themselves, and that is your queue. If you run a leaderboard next to it our magnetic scoreboard keeps the top scores up where players can see them, which keeps them coming back to beat it.

Such a great idea for our event. The queues for the grabber never went down all night. The branding done for us looked great and service fab from start to finish.

That was Verity Watson, after we branded one up for her event.

  • Players

    1 at a time

  • Round

    ~30 seconds

  • Action

    Whirlwind blower

  • Footprint

    1.2m x 1.2m

  • Power

    13A within 25m

  • Insurance

    £5M PLI

Size

Floor Space Height
Unit Size: 4ft x 4ft 7.26ft
Required Space: 7ft x 6ft 7.6ft

In metres the tank is 1.2m wide by 1.2m deep and 2.2m tall, and it wants an operating area of about 1.8m by 2.0m and 2.3m of height. It sets up by one person and runs from a single 13A socket.

What's included

  • Delivery, setup and collection by our own team
  • An attendant to run it for up to three hours, with the unit also available without staff or for longer periods
  • A run-through for your own staff if you would rather operate it yourselves
  • 24hr telephone support throughout your event
  • £5M public liability insurance as standard
  • Risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event

Delivery charges and minimum order values may apply depending on hire duration and location. Discounts available for multiple items on the same delivery - contact us for a quote.

Suitability

  • Indoors on Artificial Grass
  • Indoors on Hard Surface
  • Indoors in a marquee

It is built for indoor or marquee use only. If you are outdoors, we can send a small instant marquee free of charge to keep it under cover. Suitable for adults and children aged 6 and over, one player at a time.

Branding prices

Panel Price
Tank lower panel £69
Leaderboard header £29
Leaderboard full front wrap £69

Branding is printed sticker transfers for a single hire period. More about our branding service.

Common Questions

Do we put real money in it?

You can, but most people do not. The blower throws lightweight printed vouchers or tokens around the tank, and you decide what counts as a win. It is more common to salt a few winning tokens in among blanks, or to fill it with gift vouchers or your own branded notes, so you keep control of the prizes rather than handing out cash at random.

Is it the same machine as the Ballnado?

It is the same tank from the same maker, Game Works Creative. Grab a Grand is filled with paper vouchers or tokens, and the Ballnado is the same booth filled with soft foam balls instead. If you would rather not hand out vouchers, the Ballnado gives you the same whirlwind without anything to give away.

Can it go outside?

The tank is for indoor or marquee use only. If your event is outdoors we can send a small instant marquee free of charge to keep it under cover, so just let us know the setting when you enquire.

How many people can have a go?

One person plays at a time, and a round runs about thirty seconds on the countdown timer, so you can get through up to around thirty players an hour once you factor in swapping people in and out. An attendant keeps that moving on a busy stand.

See Grab a Grand in action, and for more of our hires head over to our YouTube channel.

Gallery

  • Amazon Peak Tour Challenge "Cash Grabber" branded tank with its matching leaderboard in an office breakout area

  • A player grabbing vouchers inside the lit tank under blue and purple stage lighting

  • Two tanks running side by side in a stone-arched hall, both players mid-grab

  • A player in a hi-vis vest grabbing red and tan vouchers, leaderboard alongside

  • A player crouching to scoop vouchers off the tank floor at an Amazon office event

  • A DB attendant running the tank for a player at an Amazon office event

  • A player grabbing red and gold vouchers, the red countdown timer overhead

  • Reaching up for the swirling vouchers as the timer counts down

  • A player in a flat cap grabbing tokens, fairy lights strung inside the dome

  • Wide view of the tank in an Amazon office, attendant watching, leaderboard at right

  • The tank set up in a shopping centre, a player in hi-vis grabbing vouchers

  • A festive shopping-centre setup beside a Christmas tree and scoreboard

  • The tank with an overhead camera feed on the screen and the leaderboard plinth alongside

  • A handwritten leaderboard of top scores beside the tank at a festive event

  • A DB attendant beside the tank with a Christmas promotional poster on the front

  • The two-tier cylindrical construction, with vouchers scattered in the base

  • The Amazon Peak Tour Challenge "Cash Grabber" wrap with a blank leaderboard ready to fill

  • Close-up of the Amazon Peak Tour Challenge branding and the control handset

  • The branded Cash Grabber tank in a corporate lobby with its matching pull-up banner

  • Vouchers tumbling inside the tank under green LED in a parquet-floored hall

  • Setting up in a shopping centre, attendant checking the tank before play

  • An attendant inside the tank gathering vouchers, a foosball table behind

  • Close-up of vouchers caught mid-air in the whirlwind under green LED

  • A player inside the tank in a shopping centre, blue LED ring overhead

Venues we deliver to

We hire from a 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18, so most of the UK is within easy reach. We deliver to the big exhibition halls including NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central, Harrogate Convention Centre and Leeds First Direct Arena, and we are out at Amazon fulfilment centres, shopping centres and corporate offices around the country with this one. Europe-wide delivery is available for larger packages.

We have been hiring out exhibition and interactive games since 1999 and own 95% of the kit we send out, with one delivery, one invoice and one contact for the whole booking. Amazon are a good example of how that tends to go, as Anais from Amazon put it:

We have used them for years here at Amazon events. Very reliable.

Related Products

Grab a Grand is one of our crowd-draw games, the sort that pulls a queue and gives your team a reason to start a conversation. The Ballnado is the same tank filled with foam balls if you would rather not give vouchers away, and the other prize and brand-activation games below pair well with it on a stand. Want a hand putting a set together? Get in touch and we will suggest a mix.

Hire Grab a Grand

Send your dates, venue and rough audience size and we'll come back with a quote. If you want the tank branded for a campaign, or filled with branded vouchers, mention it in your message and we'll cover off the prep.

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