Combo Craze — Branded Puzzle Game Hire UK for Events & Campaigns
Three hearts line up, the board clears and the falling pieces set off another match, then another. Ten seconds left, the target bar nearly full. One more swap sets off a colour bomb, the screen lights up with a prize, and the friend watching over their shoulder is already typing in their own email address.
Combo Craze is our new match-3 puzzle game, built in-house by Social Jungle, the team behind fan experiences for Rangers FC and Celtic FC and activations for BAFTA Scotland and British Airways. It’s the swap-and-match format millions of people already play on their phones, rebuilt around your brand, your products and your prizes. It sits alongside the rest of our gamification products.
If you’re looking for branded puzzle game hire in Glasgow, across Scotland or anywhere in the UK, this page covers how Combo Craze works, how it can be branded, how prizes and data capture work, the ways we can deliver it and who it’s for.
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Combo Craze on a touchscreen kiosk at a trade show, reskinned here for a coffee brand.
What Is It?
Combo Craze is a branded puzzle game in the classic match-3 style. Players swap neighbouring pieces to make lines of three or more, racing the clock (and, if you like, a move limit). Four in a row makes a striped piece, an L or T shape makes a blast and five in a row makes a colour bomb. Cascades multiply the points, and a progress bar tracks the target score that wins a prize.
It plays on any device with an internet connection: players swipe or tap on a phone, tablet or touchscreen, and click on a desktop. Hints appear if a player hesitates, and the board reshuffles itself if there are no moves left, so nobody gets stuck.
Every Combo Craze hire includes:
Combo Craze, branded to your event, brand or campaign
Your choice of game length and difficulty
Player registration with your own privacy notice, terms and opt-in wording
Optional prizes with winning odds, stock limits and unique codes
A live leaderboard: daily, weekly, monthly or all-time
An end-screen button sending players to your website
A large touchscreen supplied by us, if you need one
Play the Combo Craze Demo
Have a go yourself. This is our Social Jungle demo, so enter your name and email to play, and we’ll email you your score. There are no real prizes to be won, but it works exactly as a client game would, on your phone, tablet or computer.
What Can It Do?
Match-3 is one of the most played game formats in the world, so nobody needs a tutorial. Everything around it can be shaped to your campaign.
Your Products on the Board
Swap our pieces for your products, packaging, logo or mascot, and make your hero product worth extra points so players go looking for it. Colours, fonts, sounds and every line of text are yours too, plus a “Presented by” spot for a sponsor. It’s brand awareness people choose to spend a minute with.
Prizes That Feel Earned
Players who reach your target score can win a prize. You decide how winners are picked:
Everyone who reaches the target wins
A percentage chance of winning
Winning moments hidden through the day
Every 10th (or Nth) qualifying game wins
No instant prizes: a leaderboard prize or a prize draw at the end instead
Set stock and daily limits for each prize, including a one-off top prize. Winners get a unique code by email. Every score is worked out by our server from the moves played, so it can’t be faked.
Data You Can Use
Players enter their name and email before they play, with your own privacy notice, terms and a marketing opt-in that’s never pre-ticked or required. Every game is recorded with the player’s details, consent, score and any prize, and players can be emailed their result. You can limit games per person per day, and the game switches itself off on your closing date.
A Leaderboard Worth Coming Back For
Scores go onto a live leaderboard that resets daily, weekly or monthly, or runs all-time. Offer a prize for the week’s top scorer and people come back to beat their best. Rude names are filtered out automatically.
Traffic to Your Website
Add a button to the end screen, such as “See our menu” or “Shop the range”, and every player gets a direct route to your website at the moment they’re most engaged.
Two Ways to Deliver It, to Suit Your Budget
We can supply a large touchscreen, set up and ready to play at your stand or venue. In event mode, it resets between players and plays itself behind the start screen to draw people in. Or, for tighter budgets, we simply send you the link: add it to your website, load it on your own tablets or kiosks, or share it by email and social for people to play at home.
No touchscreen needed: players can open Combo Craze from a link and play on their own phone, wherever they are.
Who Is It For?
Brands and Product Launches
Put your new product on the board and make it the piece worth chasing. A branded puzzle game gives you a full minute of a player’s attention, captures opt-in data and sends them to your website at the end. It’s experiential marketing that works on a phone as well as at a stand.
Retail, Hospitality and Shopping Centres
Run a campaign for a week or a month: share it on social, print a QR code on cups, bags or receipts, and give winners a code to redeem in store. Daily limits and stock caps keep your prize budget under control.
Sports Clubs and Fan Engagement
Put your crest, kit and sponsors on the pieces, run it on concourse screens on match day or send it to fans between fixtures, and give the weekly leaderboard to a partner to sponsor. It works alongside our fan experience activations.
Exhibitions, Trade Shows and Corporate Events
A leaderboard brings people back to a stand, and every game is a captured lead. Pair it with Spin to Win for a quick-fire prize moment, or run a department-versus-department competition at a staff event. See our corporate event activations for more.
A football version of Combo Craze on a wall-mounted screen in a stadium concourse, with balls, trophies and shirts as the pieces.
Available Across the UK
Combo Craze is available for hire across Scotland and the whole of the UK. We’re based in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, and regularly deliver in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, as well as throughout England, from Newcastle and Manchester to London.
Because the game can be delivered as a link, it works anywhere: all players need is a device and an internet connection. We’ve delivered fan experiences at the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in Oslo and for British Airways in Riyadh. Want to try it first? Play the demo above, or visit our Experiential Playground showroom in East Kilbride to play it on a touchscreen and talk through how it could look for you.
Frequently Asked Questions About Combo Craze
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Combo Craze plays on any device with an internet connection, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and large touchscreen kiosks. On touchscreens, players swipe or tap to swap pieces. On a computer, they click or use the keyboard. It adapts to portrait and landscape screens, so the same game works on a phone at home and on a touchscreen at your stand.
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Yes. You can replace the game pieces with your own products, packaging, logo or mascot, and make your hero product worth more points. Colours, background, fonts, sound effects, logos and every line of on-screen text can be changed too, and there’s space for a sponsor’s logo. If you don’t have artwork, you can choose from our ready-made pieces instead.
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Players who reach a target score you choose can win a prize. Winners can be everyone who hits the target, a percentage chance, hidden winning moments or every Nth game, and you can set stock and daily limits for each prize. Winners are emailed a unique code. Scores are worked out on our server from the moves played, so they can’t be faked.
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No. We can supply a large touchscreen, set up and ready for players at your event. On a tighter budget, we can send you a link to your branded game to add to your website, load onto your own tablets or kiosks, or share by email and social for people to play at home. The link option works anywhere in the world.
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Players enter their name and email address before they play, with your own privacy notice, terms and an optional marketing opt-in that’s never pre-ticked. Every game is recorded with the player’s details, consent, score and any prize won, and you receive the full list. You can also limit how many games each person can play per day.
Book Combo Craze for Your Next Event
Tell us about your event or campaign, how you’d like to brand the game, what prizes you have in mind and whether you need a touchscreen, and we’ll put together a quote for your branded puzzle game hire. Get in touch through our contact page and we’ll come back to you quickly.
You can also play it in person at our Experiential Playground in East Kilbride, or browse all our digital activations.