Ring Toss Game

Our class was given the assignment to create an arcade or table top game. So, I made the most memorable carnival games that I've played, the Ring Toss Game. Although Ring Toss isn't traditionally table top, I decided to make it work.

For this project you will need to have:

1. A computer with inkscape and inventor
2. A 3D printer
3. A Laser Cutter
4. Filament
5. MDF

The first thing that I did was make the rings for the Ring Toss Game.

At first, I went with a donut shaped design by making a sketch on Inventor and having the sketch be an 1in from the centerline and making a sphere with the width of an 1in.

I changed this afterward to a disc shaped design to better match the traditional ring Toss design and made that design by doing a sketch just like the last design but increasing the inside diameter to 3in. and narrowing down the circle to be half of the circle and making it more of an oval shape (specifically eyeshaped).

I then created the Pegs of the Ring Toss Game pegs.

At first, I created these by making a cylinder in Inventor with the width of 10cm with a filet at the top so that the pegs had a rounded off top. I printed this design but I quickly came to the realization that the pegs weren't thick enough.

This is why I changed the ring toss pegs to be 19 centimeters in diameter.

I came to the problem that I needed a based that would have enough space between pegs that the rings wouldn't bounce between the pegs too much and that the holes would have to fit for those same pegs.

With this I made a 9 and 15/16 in base with 4.5 inch spaces between each peg spaces center. I then made the spaces a diameter of 19mm to be able to precisely fit and hole the pegs without glue. I then cut out the middle of the square to minimize wasted space and material.

Due to the precise fit of the peg spaces on the base, all that is needed in the assembly is to push the pegs into the peg spaces and check on the bottom to make sure the peg bottoms are flush with the bottom of the base.

Just play with and have fun with it some to make sure that it is at your desired size, if not scale everything to an equal amount till satisfied.