Corporate games

Choosing the right personalised games for the occasion

The occasion sets the personalised game type before any logo goes on. A family fun day on a lawn wants giant connect-four and a tumble tower people can see across a field. A hospitality table wants a neat chess or dominoes set in a wooden box.

A pub-quiz night or a roadshow leans on printed trivia packs and top-trumps-style decks, because they pack flat, post cheaply and play in any room. A children's brand giving away its first toy reaches for a small wooden game that parents are happy to leave on a shelf.

Match the unit cost to the headcount too. A 2,000-strong festival giveaway needs a low-cost printed game or a pocket dice set, whereas a board-of-directors gift can carry a hardwood chess set with felt-lined storage.

Corporate-event planners often run several of these crowd-pullers together, and a mixed table of personalised games covers more guests at once. Corporate Gift Boxes let you pair a small wooden game with other items in one branded presentation box for a team welcome kit.

Tumble towers and eco wooden games for stacking

A tumble tower is the Jenga-style stack of roughly 54 wooden blocks that draws a crowd at any open-air event. Branding sits on the natural pine or hardwood blocks by laser engraving, screen print or pad print. A logo can run along one face of every block or across the printed storage box.

Tabletop towers stand about 30cm at the start and grow as players build. A giant garden tower begins near knee height and can climb above head height before it topples. The giant format is the showpiece for a family day, since a falling tower of branded blocks is the moment everyone photographs.

Laser engraving is the choice for a premium hardwood tower, because the burnt mark never rubs off and ages with the wood. Screen print carries full-colour brand artwork better, so a marketing giveaway with a bright logo usually prints rather than engraves.

Block count and timber both affect play. A standard 54-block set in smooth-sanded pine is light and quick to restack, while a heavier hardwood set feels more substantial as a hospitality or boardroom piece. Edges are chamfered so the blocks slide without catching mid-pull.

Dominoes, dice and dice cups as printed games

A domino set turns each tile into brandable space. A double-six set has 28 tiles and a double-nine has 55. A logo can sit on the spacer pin, the tile backs or the lid of the wooden storage box. Standard pips keep the set playable while the branding rides alongside.

Dice and dice cups suit the cheapest, highest-volume giveaways. A custom dice can replace one pip face with a tiny logo, or carry brand colours on the body. A leatherette dice cup prints or debosses a logo on its side for a pub or casino-night promotion.

Material decides the feel and the price. Wooden dominoes feel like a keepsake and engrave cleanly. Plastic or resin tiles take full-colour print and survive damp outdoor use, while a printed-card domino set ships flat for a mass mailing. The set you pick follows whether it is a desk gift or a 5,000-unit handout.

Dominoes also work as a structured brand object. These printed games can carry a different product, branch or milestone on each tile back, so the personalised game doubles as a quiet catalogue that someone shuffles through while they play.

Chess, draughts and classic custom games

A chess or draughts set is the heritage end of the range and reads as a considered gift. Branding is restrained here: a logo engraved into the board border, etched on a wooden storage box, or laid into the felt base rather than splashed across the playing surface.

Draughts and backgammon share the same folding-board format, so one wooden case can hold a reversible board and two sets of counters. That makes a single boxed set cover several games, which suits a hospitality lounge or a long-stay hotel room.

Hardwood, bamboo and printed-card boards span the budget. A solid-wood inlaid board is a multi-year desk piece. A bamboo set leans on its renewable-timber story, while a folding printed board keeps a travel or giveaway edition light and affordable.

Pieces matter as much as the board. Weighted chess pieces with felted bases sit firmly and feel premium in the hand, while moulded or printed counters keep a draughts giveaway low in cost. A boxed set storing both the board and pieces protects the gift in transit and on a shelf.

Top-trumps decks and quiz packs as printed games

A top-trumps-style game is a different brief from a standard deck: each card carries a character, product or stat block, and players compare ratings rather than play poker. A brand builds its own theme onto roughly 30 to 33 cards, so these bespoke decks, true custom games, turn a fleet or a product range into the playable line-up.

Pub-quiz and trivia packs print as a boxed set of question cards with an answer booklet. They are ideal for a roadshow or a staff social, because they pack flat, post in a small parcel and need no board to play around a table.

For a fuller deck of conventional playing cards rather than a stat-comparison game, the dedicated Personalised playing cards page covers card stock, cores and box formats in detail. The top-trumps and quiz route here is about bespoke rules and question content, not the 52-card grid.

Card stock for custom games that last

Card weight still counts on these packs. A trivia or top-trumps set on roughly 300gsm stock survives a personalised games-night without softening. A linen or matte finish keeps the cards fanning cleanly when several players hold a hand.

Content build is the real work on a quiz pack. Writing 100 or more questions and laying out each card to one template takes longer than the print itself. The question content is the part to lock down early.

Puzzles and jigsaws as personalised games

A custom jigsaw turns any image into a personalised game, so a brand photo, a product shot or a team illustration becomes the puzzle. Piece count sets the audience. A 24 to 100-piece puzzle suits a children's brand or a quick desk gift, while a 500 to 1,000-piece jigsaw is a serious leisure giveaway for adults.

Take a heritage estate selling a 1,000-piece puzzle of its house in the gift shop. The image has to be originated at full print resolution, near 300dpi across the finished 480 by 340mm board, or the die-cut edges blur the picture. A retail run like that usually sits at a higher minimum, often several hundred boxes, because the cutting forme is set up once per piece pattern.

The bespoke-image origination is the real cost, not the cardboard. A supplied phone snap rarely holds up enlarged to puzzle size, so the artwork is reshot or rebuilt before any board is cut. The piece count then locks the forme, and changing it later means a fresh setup.

Board weight on personalised games as jigsaws

Board thickness governs how a jigsaw feels and lasts. A greyboard-backed puzzle of roughly 1.5 to 2mm holds its shape and snaps together cleanly, while a thinner promotional puzzle keeps a mass mailing light and cheap to post.

Packaging carries the brand as much as the picture. A printed puzzle box shows the finished image as a reference and brands every face. A smaller foil or tin box lifts a puzzle from a giveaway into a keepsake on a shelf.

Puzzles travel well in a wider seasonal range. A branded jigsaw sits naturally beside Personalised Christmas gifts in a December mailing, since a family puzzle is a gift people open together over the holidays.

Giant garden and lawn promotional games for outdoor events

Giant lawn personalised games are the headline of any outdoor activation. Giant connect-four stands about a metre tall, and a giant tumble tower climbs above head height in play. Quoits, skittles and giant noughts-and-crosses round out a field of branded stations a crowd moves between.

Branding outdoors has to survive weather and handling. A logo etched on skittle bases or screen-printed on the connect-four frame takes sun and damp far better than a stuck-on vinyl label. The label lifts at the edges outdoors, so the durable methods win for reuse.

Scale is the whole point of these oversized crowd-pullers. A metre-high set of personalised games on a festival lawn reads from across the site and pulls people in from a distance. That visibility is why event teams pick the giant format when footfall is the goal.

Storage and transport matter for a hire-and-reuse set. A giant tumble tower needs a wheeled trolley or a sturdy bag, and a folding connect-four packs down for a van. The carry case is part of the spec for any team running the same games across a season of events.

Eco wooden games and responsible materials

Wood is the natural home for a low-impact game, and bamboo or FSC-sourced timber lets a brand lead on its eco story. A laser-engraved finish suits these eco wooden games because it adds no ink or plastic film, leaving the timber to be the message.

Material claims sit on each personalised game's own paperwork. The FSC certificate and the exact timber source are printed on that line's product spec sheet. A recycled-board figure is given per puzzle or per quiz pack on its data sheet, and the wood a tumble tower uses is named on its own listing.

Plastic-free packaging extends the story past the game itself. A kraft box, a cotton drawstring bag or a paper-banded set keeps a wooden game free of shrink-wrap. That matters to a brand that has chosen the eco route on purpose.

Durability is part of sustainability here. A solid hardwood chess set or a well-sanded tumble tower takes years of regular handling. One quality game stays in use across many events rather than being replaced each season.

Print and engraving methods across printed games

Each game surface wants a different method. Laser engraving burns a permanent mark into wood and is the durable choice for tumble blocks, chess boxes and skittle bases. It carries no colour, but the finish never wears off.

Screen and pad printing carry brand colour onto wood, resin and plastic, so a giveaway tumble tower or a custom dice can show a full logo in brand shades. Full-colour digital and litho handle the photographic work on jigsaws, quiz cards and top-trumps decks.

Method also follows quantity. A short run of engraved hardwood sets suits a one-off digital process, while several thousand printed quiz packs move to litho for a better per-unit rate. The count nudges the method as much as the material does.

Ask for a sample of our personalised games before you commit, free of charge, and you can feel the timber grain and read the engraving depth on an actual block in your hand. With a range this varied, holding one finished set settles a material choice faster than any swatch chart.

Artwork setup and lead times for custom games

Artwork prep differs by game. A tumble tower needs a single small tile repeated across the blocks, and a jigsaw needs one high-resolution image at print size. A quiz pack needs every card laid to the same template with consistent type and safe margins.

Engraving files want clean vector line art, since a fine gradient or a soft shadow does not burn cleanly into wood. Full-colour print on cards and puzzles wants the image built to bleed, with logos held inside a safe margin so the trim never clips them.

Lead time tracks the game type and the count. A printed quiz or top-trumps run clears faster than a hardwood chess set with engraved storage box, and most orders are delivered in three weeks once artwork is approved.

Reorders run smoothly because the setup is stored. A games-night pack such as Custom stickers used to seal a quiz box can be reprinted from the same file, so a repeat batch matches the first run.

Send print-ready files and our studio signs off the layout inside 24 hours. The check calls out any block face, quiz card or puzzle edge that sits too close to the cut before the run begins.

• Tumble tower for high-visibility outdoor crowds
• Wooden dominoes set as a desk keepsake
• Custom dice and dice cup for casino nights
• Top-trumps deck built around your product range
• Quiz pack that posts flat for roadshows
• Custom jigsaw turning a brand image into a gift

Packaging, kitting and gift presentation for custom games

Packaging on personalised games is mostly about holding the pieces still. A die-cut foam insert seats each chess piece, domino tile or counter in its own recess, so nothing rattles loose in transit and no token goes missing from the set. The insert is cut to the exact piece shapes before the box is made.

A card or tile game chooses between a tuck box and a rigid two-piece box. A tuck box with a fold-in flap keeps a top-trumps deck or a small domino set light and cheap to post. A rigid two-piece lidded box reads as a keepsake and survives reshelving on a desk.

A hire-set or giant game ships with its own storage built into the spec. Giant connect-four packs into a wheeled trolley, a giant tumble tower drops into a heavy drawstring bag, and a lawn skittles set rides in a sturdy holdall. That carry case is sized to the game, not bought separately.

For a children's brand, Personalised soft toys kit beside a junior jigsaw in one boxed bundle parents keep on a shelf. The small wooden game and the toy share a recessed tray so neither slides during the post.

Keeping shared promotional games clean

Hygiene shapes the wrap on a shared game. A pub or bar tumble tower that many hands touch can ship shrink-wrapped per set, so it reaches the venue sealed and clean. The seal is broken once on site rather than in transit.

Weight still rules the giveaway table. A pocket dice game travels well next to Personalised keyrings, so a stand hands out something playful by the hundred without the bulk of a boxed set or its insert.