Bigger Game Wheel

If you aren't interested in building your own Game Wheel, here's a couple you can purchase already built from Amazon:

WinSpin 18-inch Round Tabletop Color Prize Wheel

WinSpin 24" Tabletop Spinning Prize Wheel

WinSpin™ 30" Editable Color Prize Wheel

For VBS 2016, my wife decided she wanted a new / bigger wheel game. Bigger is always better, right?

So I made a bigger one. It is currently August 2017 and I made this about a year and a half ago, so I don't have a great memory of the design aspects of this build. But I did take some pics. So I'll post those and If I can think of any notes, I'll throw them in...

We didn't want words on this one. We made 4 other games. Each day a kid would spin the wheel to see which color it landed on . That decided the game we would play for the day...

I ordered the Lazy Susan part from Amazon: Lazy Susan



Split the 4X4 sheet of plywood into sections. First this allows me to find the center point, but it also will give me my painting lines later on.



Then I want to draw the circle.



test fit before cutting out the wood.





Use the same method as drawing the line, but this time with a Jigsaw... Here's a link to a better jig saw: Jig Saw

I really dislike the jig saw I have. I'm planning to upgrade soon.



added the bolts just to see what I was working with. I liked it.



Removed the bolts and started painting. Not hard. Just tape off the sections you aren't painting and use spray paint. The painting part is easy. the taping part is the pain in the butt..



building the frame to hold the wheel...





building the arrow...





Kinda assembled. Latest pic I have anyway...

Other People's Connect 4.

My Connect 4 post has had a lot of interest.  I get a lot of questions on measurements/cost/...   Anyway, one reader just made his own.  It is a little smaller.  It uses 5" checkers.  He also had the great idea of adding a chalk board/lego wall on the back.  That was very smart.  I wanted to post the pictures he sent me...

  

Nice Job Phillip!!

Pictures from a Cowboy Church's Rodeo Fest

A reader (Mike) who happened on my blog said he had some pics of a Rodeo Fest they did at a Cowboy Church.  He didn't have a place to post them and asked if I would.  I was more than happy to post them.

The following pics are all from Mike.  I especially love the milking cows.  We did something similar at a fall festival a few years ago.  I'll have to try to find some pics.  There's also some really good ideas for future games...

 





 







 

Thanks for the Pics Mike.  Anyone else have any they would like to share?  I'll be happy to host them.

Thanks,

Doug

Guess That Picture - Animated ProPresenter 5 Game

So after using the game from my previous post, we decided we needed smaller boxes.  This would make it harder to guess the picture.  So we decided to go with a 8 by 8 grid.  Problem is that's 64 boxes to remove.  if we have the kids come up one by one and remove a pic it would take forever.  So we decided to make it automatically remove the boxes. So I made a video in PremierePro that contains alpha channel.  So you have your picture as the background and the disappearing boxes as the foreground...   Anyway, the ProPresenter 5 exported bundle is below:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycjls2k5rsorzzy/GuessThatPicGame.pro5x?dl=0

 

 

This is a larger file because it contains the MOV video.  Since it is MOV, I'm not sure how it will work in a Windows version of ProPresenter.  We no longer have one.  We upgrade our Kid's Church computer to a Mac Mini...

 

Soon, I'll post a YouTube video on how to download/install/run the game in ProPresenter...

 

Here's a pic from the game in ProPresenter 5.

 



 

Let me know if you have problems or good feedback.

 

Thanks,

Doug