Roll and Bowl Racing Derby Hire

Manufacturer/supplier: Game Works Creation.

The Roll and Bowl Racing Derby, branded as the Grand National and best described as a tabletop version of the fairground roll-a-ball horse race, is a two-player cabinet where you roll balls up a lit lane and through numbered holes to move your horse along the track on the backboard. First to nineteen lights on the scoreboard takes the race. Each player gets three balls a go, red against blue, and the holes are marked one, two and three points, so there is a bit of aim in it rather than pure luck.

The cabinet comes with built-in LED lane lighting, automated sound effects, spoken instructions and a digital timer, so it explains itself to new players and keeps the races moving. It is a compact unit, which is why it turns up anywhere from a front room to a trade stand.

Equipment details

• Two players head to head, red versus blue, three balls each per go
• Numbered scoring holes worth 1, 2 and 3 points, first to nineteen lights wins
• Built-in LED lighting, sound effects, audio instructions and digital timer
• Equipment dimensions 1.1m wide x 1.2m high (3.6ft x 3.9ft)
• Operational area 2m x 2m (6.5ft x 6.5ft)
• Indoor or marquee use only
• One standard 13amp 240V socket
• Around 80 players an hour can cycle through
• Operated by our trained staff throughout the hire

The unit can also be vinyl-wrapped with a company logo, which is why it goes out to product launches, exhibitions and promotions as well as parties.

Works well at

Corporate events and office parties, product launches, university balls and freshers weeks, birthday parties, Christmas dos, and race-day themed evenings, where the horse-racing format does half the theming for you. It sits happily next to the Atari Pong table, the arcade games and the rest of the electronic games range, and it is a regular alongside photo booth hire on evening events.

Roll and Bowl hire across Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and London

We've run Monster Event Hire from our unit in Havant since 2002, and the cabinet is ours, so the member of staff who runs it is one of our own, first-aid trained and enhanced-DBS registered, not an agency hand. The electrics are PAT-tested every year, we carry £10 million public liability insurance with additional licensed-premises cover, and the certificate and risk assessment are available on request. We deliver, set up, supervise and take down across Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and into London, including Portsmouth, Southampton, Guildford and London.

Tell us the date, the venue and what else you are booking, and we will come back with a quote.