Frequently Asked Questions
Details to help plan your glowing games quote
Do glow games need the room to be dark?+
They need the room to be dim, not black. In full daylight or a brightly lit ballroom the LEDs disappear and you have rented an ordinary cornhole set. The practical rule for Phoenix is that glow games start working about half an hour after sunset outdoors, and indoors they need the house lights down. If your event runs from 4pm, plan the glow games for the back half of it.
Do glow games work outdoors?+
Outdoors after dark is where they are at their best, because there is no competing light and the games become the only thing visible at that end of the property. Backyard parties, pool decks and resort lawns are the usual settings. Tell us the surface when you order, since a 10ft shuffleboard needs level ground and lawn games do not.
What is the LED swing and see saw?+
Illuminated versions of both, and they are photo pieces as much as they are play pieces. The swing in particular ends up with a queue of guests waiting to be photographed on it rather than to swing. If your brief includes a moment people will post, these do more work than another table game will.
What is a giant lite brite?+
A wall-sized version of the pegboard toy, where guests push colored pegs into a lit board to build an image over the course of the event. We stock a giant and a 4ft. It is the rare game that a crowd contributes to collectively rather than taking turns at, so it holds a room without producing a queue, and it looks different at the end of the night than it did at the start.
How big are the giant games?+
Giant chess, checkers and connect four are floor games with pieces guests pick up and carry, not tabletop sets. The shuffleboard is 10ft, ladder ball comes as a two-ladder set and mini golf is a nine-hole course you lay out across a space. Send us the footprint you have and we will give you exact dimensions before you commit the floor plan.
Which glow games suit a teen or school event?+
Giant connect four, giant checkers, cornhole, ladder ball, tic tac toe and the lite brite. All of them are understood in three seconds with no explanation, all of them work standing up, and none of them require a turn order anyone has to enforce. Skip beer pong for a school event for obvious reasons, and skip anything that seats two people for a long game.
Which glow games suit a corporate after-party?+
Shuffleboard, pool, foosball, darts and giant chess. They read as adult, they give people something to do with their hands during a conversation, and they photograph as a designed space rather than a rec room. The lite brite is the sleeper pick at a corporate event, because senior people who will not play cornhole in front of their staff will absolutely put pegs in a board.
Can the mini golf course go indoors?+
Yes. The nine-hole course lays out across whatever space you give it, which means a ballroom, a warehouse, a covered patio or a lawn all work. Indoors it is easier to control the light, which matters for a glow course. Give us the room dimensions and any pillars or fixed obstacles and we will tell you how the holes lay out.
Do glow games double as photo moments?+
That is half of why people rent them. In a dim room a lit object is the only thing a phone camera can expose properly, so the glow games end up in more photographs than the decor does. The swing, the see saw, the lite brite and giant connect four are the four that get photographed most.
How do glow games compare to arcade machines?+
Glow games are social and need low light. Arcade machines are competitive, work in any lighting, and are loud. A glow game gets a group standing around it talking. An arcade machine gets one or two people concentrating and a queue behind them. Most events that want both put the arcade machines in one room and the glow games outdoors or in the space that goes dark later.