How Golden Ball works
The globe is filled with 5,000 colourful balls, one of which is golden. Finding it decides the prize.
It is a search mechanic, so tension builds inside the globe rather than at the door. It suits a single significant prize, a spend-and-win qualification, or a campaign where one memorable winner is worth more than many small ones.
How Cash Grabber works
The guest steps in and grabs swirling tickets, vouchers or printed notes in a session timed to suit the campaign.
It is a race mechanic, and it is loud in the best sense: the queue watches, the session is over quickly, and everybody leaves with something. It suits many smaller wins — vouchers redeemable with tenants, discount codes, or branded prize slips.
- ❄Cash Grabber is primarily a promotional and engagement attraction, and its game mechanic can be customised around your campaign provided the proposed operation can be run safely
- ❄It can use paper tickets, foil tickets, vouchers or other suitable campaign materials
- ❄Game format and session timing are adapted to the campaign rather than fixed to one compulsory duration
Which suits which campaign
Choose Golden Ball for one headline prize and a story; Cash Grabber for volume, energy and voucher redemption.
- ❄Retail spend-and-win with a flagship prize — Golden Ball
- ❄Driving redemption with tenants or partners — Cash Grabber
- ❄Long queue you want kept entertained — Cash Grabber
- ❄Single winner announcement, PR or social moment — Golden Ball
Prizes, vouchers and fairness
Both mechanics depend on the prize content you supply and the rules you publish beside the entrance.
Whoever runs the campaign owns the prize pool and the terms. Publishing the rules on a board next to the queue removes almost every dispute before it starts.
- ❄The client normally provides its own prizes, vouchers and promotional content
- ❄We can help with sourcing these on request
- ❄What goes inside the globe has to be something the crew can operate safely, which is agreed before the campaign is signed off
Throughput and branding
Both run the same crewed cycle — roughly 20 groups an hour — and both can be dressed to your campaign.
The surround is printed to your brand guidelines in either case, so the mechanic changes but the branded photo outcome does not. The brand activation guide covers artwork and measurement in more detail.