Carnival Games (update)

OK, so a few months ago, I made a post with some of my recent wood working projects. Some of those were the carnival games I have been building for London and I's block party this fall. Seeing as I am still planning on doing a trial run with my family in just about a month I thought I would give everyone an update on how things are coming along. For all of you who didn't know this, scroll down a few pages and look at what I have down there before reading the rest of this post. Besides, you never know if you might catch some BIG news for the Schade family ;)

So this first picture is actually the finished product of what I had posted a few months ago. Here you can see the many colors of all the PVC pipe. The closer you get to the center the better your chances, but if you can't quite hit the center, then you still have a random chance at getting something. London and I played with this for hours slowly adding more and more colored pipe till we could get at least one color for every three throws of the ping-pong balls. Then after we got the amount of colored pipe we liked we kept playing for hours and hours. What can I say...its fun.

Now this next game didn't take long to build and I am still debating on if I should paint the pipe or not, but I guess I'll listen to suggestions from any and all who are willing to share. I have three identical pieces, but I just took a picture of the one. The point of this game is that there will be ping-pong balls placed on the top of all five pipes. Then with a water gun in hand be the first to shoot off all of your targets. This is one of those games where you will be able to challenge others to see who really is the best. While London and I were testing this game out we placed it in the garage and with all the doors closed, and an organized garage at that, we some how managed to loose one of the balls. We are still wondering how that happened. I do however think that I am going to make one change to this game and that is I am going to add legs so it sits higher off the ground. Seems to make this game a lot enjoyable when it is just below eye level.

This last game is very simple and only took a few days to build...actually, it only took a few hours to build, but took a few days for the painting and trying to decide how to paint it so it didn't look crazy. Not to mention a few spins to try and work the balance of the wheel out. I kind of forgot while I was building it that the knots in the wood make it more dense and made getting the weight just right very difficult. It still isn't perfect, I doubt it ever will be, but it does stop on all the colors with equal opportunity. If you haven't figured it out, it is just a prize wheel. Spin it and see what color it lands on. Simple game, but still fun. Look I even landed on the Yellow...YAY!!!


Now, comes the hard part. I have four games finished right now (Plinko [found on the other post], the Ball Toss, Water Shoot, and Prize Wheel). However, I would like to have eight games by this time next month, I just don't know what games to build. I am open for any suggestions, even if its something I don't have to build, just a fun carnival games that people like to play. One suggestion is the duck pond...which I think I will do. But I still need more. So please HELP. ;)