Spin Wheel is a prize wheel that each guest spins once at your event. The guest presses the button, the wheel spins and stops on a slice; the prize they won is shown on the same screen. You decide how many of each prize will be given out and how likely each prize is to come up. This article walks through the first setup from start to finish: logging in, creating an event, the settings that come ready-made, opening the game to guests and getting back to the settings from the game.
- Sign in with your Activation King account and create an event.
- As soon as you select the event, the wheel comes with a ready-made set of prizes (8 slices). Do not go live without entering your real prizes.
- Set the prizes in Session → Prizes, and the wheel's spin and looks on the Game Screens page.
- Set a 4-digit PIN in the Event Settings → Kiosk tab.
- Press the Run the App button and choose Run as Spin Wheel.
- To get back from the game to the settings, tap the lock icon in the corner of the screen and enter the PIN.
Step by step
Step 1 · Sign in
When you open the app, the login screen appears. Sign in with your Activation King account. You can choose the language on this screen or later from the settings. The language you choose is used both on the settings screens and on the guest screens. The app supports 11 languages: Turkish, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Czech.
After signing in, the Dashboard opens. If you are on a trial, you see the number of remaining days here.
Step 2 · Create an event
All of the game's settings belong to an event; you need an event first. Open the Events page in the left menu and press Create New Event. Give the event a name (required) and, if you like, write a short description. In the How would you like to start? step you can choose to start with an empty event or to take over the settings of an event you prepared earlier with Copy Previous Event.
To bring an event you prepared on another device onto this one, use Import Old Event From Cloud on the same page. If your account has no events at all, the Create Your First Event window that opens on the Dashboard takes you to the same place.
Once the event is created, the Your Event Is Ready page opens. The Run the App button here does the same job as the one in the left menu; Skip the rest returns you to the settings.
When you first select the event, the game is filled with ready-made values:
- The wheel has a ready-made set of 8 slices: Prize 1, Prize 2, Prize 3 and Grand Prize, each twice. These are placeholders; you enter your own prizes in the Prizes tab of Session.
- The ready-made set has no quantity limit and no codes; Grand Prize comes up with the lowest chance.
- The wheel spins for 6 seconds and makes 6 full turns; the prize panel stays on screen for 8 seconds.
- The tick sound, confetti, win sound and the QR on the prize panel are on.
- The survey is on and has a single field asking the player's name; the field's label comes as Name in English. For an event in another language, change the label in Session → Survey.
- The disclaimer (privacy consent, GDPR) is on; the title comes as Privacy notice and the text in English. Write your own text in Session → Disclaimer.
- Design style Frost, color palette Purple Dream, lock icon at the bottom right.
Step 3 · Get to know the settings pages
Once you select the event, the left menu is gathered into three groups:
- Manage → Events (the event list) and Event Settings (Main: name and description; Kiosk: PIN, timeout, sync between devices).
- Design → Game Screens: the Main tab sets the colors, the design style, the logo, the background and the lock icon; the Call to Action and Input tabs set the texts and layout of those screens; the Wheel tab sets the wheel's spin, its sounds, the prize panel and its texts; the Pause tab sets the pause screen.
- Run → Session: the event's data. Tabs: Survey (the details to collect from the guest), Disclaimer (the consent text and checkbox), Prizes (the prizes on the wheel, their quantities and chances) and Winners (who won what).
The White Labeling page only opens on the White Label / Ultimate plan. The details of each page are in the related topics.
Step 4 · Set a PIN code
Type a 4-digit PIN into the Dashboard PIN field. If the PIN is not exactly 4 characters, it is not saved and the warning PIN must be exactly 4 digits. Not saved. appears. If you do not set a PIN, anyone who taps the lock icon in the game goes straight into the settings.
The other settings on the same tab:
- Session Timeout: if the guest screen is not touched for a while, the game returns to the Welcome screen. Type the time in seconds. If you leave it empty or type 0, 300 seconds are used.
- Sync changes while the app is running: when on, settings changes you make to this event on another device also arrive on this device while the game is running.
- Touch to Start and Event Credit Limit have no effect in Spin Wheel: the wheel always starts with the button on the Welcome screen, and the game does not use credits. Run on Startup works on Windows and Mac: when it is on, the app starts by itself when the device is turned on.
Step 5 · Open the game to guests
Press the Run the App button in the left menu. If you have not selected an event, the warning Select an event first to run the app. appears.
The window that opens has two options:
- Run as Spin Wheel: opens the game in full screen with the Welcome screen. From then on, guests play by themselves.
- Show Pause Screen: puts the pause screen on the display while you take a break. Guests cannot play during that time.
If you have not entered any prizes, the wheel opens with the ready-made set and the guest wins a made-up prize such as Prize 1; fill in the Prizes tab of Session before going live. If every prize has run out, the SPIN button does not work.
On Windows the game runs in a locked full screen; it cannot be left with Alt+Tab or Alt+F4.
Step 6 · Get back from the game to the settings
A small lock icon sits in one corner of the guest screens; its default place is the bottom right. Tap the icon. If you set a PIN, enter it in the Operator Access window. After the correct PIN, full screen is left and the settings open. On Windows, and on a Mac with a keyboard attached, the F11 or F12 key does the same job.
You change the icon's place and visibility in Game Screens → Main → Dashboard Icon:
- If you set the visibility to 0%, the icon is invisible but its spot keeps working. Tap that corner 5 times within 3 seconds.
- If you set the position to Off, nothing remains on the screen. In that case you can only exit with F11 or F12 on a keyboard.
The same icon and the same PIN are used while the pause screen is on.
Going into the event without setting a PIN: a guest who taps the lock icon gets into the settings.
Setting the Dashboard Icon to Off on a tablet or phone: without a keyboard you cannot leave the game.
Going live straight away with the ready-made settings: the name field's label is Name and the privacy consent text comes in English; the guest sees them as they are.
Going live without entering prizes: the wheel spins with the ready-made set and the guest wins a prize that is not real.
Related topics
What Does the Guest See? One Game from Start to Finish How to Set Prizes and Winning Chances? How to Set the Wheel Spin and the Prize Panel? How to Collect the Guest's Name and Consent? How to Set the Look of the Game? How to Set Up the Event Settings? PIN, Timeout, Language and Multiple Devices