The Gold Bar Challenge is a simple, addictive stunt that pulls crowds. A replica gold bar rests on a cushion inside a glass case, set on a black and gold plinth with a mirrored chrome frame. Reach through the hole, grip the bar and lift it clean out: one hand, 60 seconds on the clock, and you can't touch the base. It sounds simple. Guests queue up to prove it's harder than it looks. It's competitive and highly shareable on social media.
How It Works
- The bar sits inside the case on a cushion.
- One hand only, the other hand stays behind your back.
- No leaning on the case, no dragging. Clean lift, clean pull.
- You get 60 seconds on the clock to get it out.
Where It Works
Exhibition stands and trade shows are its natural home. It also goes down well at brand activations, corporate entertainment events, team building days, weddings, parties and public festivals, indoors or out. Only got a square metre of floor going spare? That's the whole operating area it needs, and at 1.6m tall it fits almost any hall or function room.
Branding
The base takes printed panels on all four sides, produced and fitted by our in-house branding team. We've built versions for exhibitors, including a heating-industry stand that ran the game as a win-a-kitchen-tap prize draw. Full print is £199+VAT and the panels come off after the event.
Why Book From Us
We've supplied exhibition games for over 20 years, with several deliveries a week to the NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London and Manchester Central. Every hire carries £5 million public liability insurance, and we email risk assessments and method statements to you or your venue before the event. The game travels in its own flight cases, sets up fast and is easy for your own staff to run.
Pair It With
The Vault and Crack the Code are natural stablemates if you want a run of safe-cracker style challenges, or browse the wider exhibition game hire range, from the Batak Pro reaction game to the Prize Crane.
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Hire Price
- From £395 plus VAT
- A minimum spend may apply depending on your event location
- Full print to all four sides of the base: £199+VAT
Specifications
- Unit size: 0.6m (W) x 0.6m (D) x 1.6m (H), about 2ft square and 4ft tall
- Operating area needed: 1m x 1m
- Branding panels: four sides, 452mm wide x 942mm high each
- Minimum doorway width: 0.7m
- Suitable indoors and outdoors on any surface, including grass, concrete and wood chip
Please mention any tricky access routes such as stairs, lifts or uneven surfaces when you book.
Branding
We brand the base for you: printed, applied and removed after the event. The print is sticker transfers suited to one hire period, unless you're booking the game for multiple consecutive days or weeks. Send us your artwork and we handle the rest.
What's Included
- Set up and installed on site by our team
- Full operational tutorial and instructions
- 24hr telephone support
- Collection and removal from site
Delivery charges and minimum order values vary with location and hire duration. We may also discount multiple items hired at the same time.
Coverage
We deliver from our base in Rotherham, right next to the A1, M1 and M18. South Yorkshire is our home patch, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester are on the doorstep, and we cover the whole UK, from the North East to London, Birmingham and Wales, with several deliveries a week to the NEC, Manchester Central, Telford and ExCeL London. Exhibition bookings running several days qualify for multi-day rates. We have local pages for exhibition game hire in Sheffield, Manchester and Birmingham if you want venue-specific detail.
| | Floor Space | Height |
| Unit Size: | 2ft x 2ft | 4ft |
| Required Space: | 2ft x 2ft | 6ft |
Suitable For
| Indoors on Artificial Grass |  |
| Indoors on Hard Surface | |
| Outdoors on Concrete | |
| Outdoors on Grass | |
| Outdoors on Grass / Hard Surface Mix | |
| Outdoors on Hard Surface | |
| Outdoors on Wood Chip | |