Strange Question

[MarkM]

Had a conversation in the pub last week and I had described to me an old game machine, the concept was that you had several drums like the buddist prayer wheels on a spindle that you spin to show a cow, pig whatever and then you attempt to spin the next drum to show the next part of the picture, same concept as a fruit machine but vertical and pictures of animals or people. My question is what would you call this game/machine. I want one, now I could make one but the construction would be rather complicated if you did it correctly, IE stainless steel shaft, roller bearings, decent bracket to hold the spindle etc etc, even going a simpler route with cutting the drums with a router and using marbles or similar as a built in ball race is still a complicated method of making it and rather time consuming for something that I will only use occasionally. So anyone know what the hell I am talking about?
I have had it suggested that is was a far east thing with a Monkey/Elephant/Tiger for the pictures but anything can be adapted but I need the correct name of the game/machine to be able to go any further with this.

[Altimas]

this it?

[MarkM]

No, think of a cylinder in the vertical postion, but divided into 3 pieces

This is a prayer wheel and I think this is a two part one

[behemoth]

::edit:: guess not.

[bofh]

same concept as a fruit machine

I think you lost a lot of people right there.

I'm lost a bit too, is it like a vertical fruit (slot) machine? Do you win? Or is like a children's toy? Is it a pub game? Is it an historical game?

[rkjunior303]

silly brit's and your wacked toys

[MarkM]

A fruit machine is what we call , well a fruit machine that you see in bars and clubs and casino's all work on several drums laid horizontally trying to match the symbols. What I am looking for is the same thing but vertically instead of symbols you have a picture split into 3, the idea being that you are attempting to spin the 3 body parts. It exists as a card game version and I am sure that I have seen something very similar in the machine form I want.
It is simply an old game but in machine form it would still be old but not quite as old as the card version. That said perhaps a victorian version is what I am thinking of having seen. many 'games' etc are based on victorian originals.

[thecavemankevin]

Take a week to rethink your humour MarkM

[SCpoloRicker]

[Lohman446]

A fruit machine is what we call , well a fruit machine that you see in bars and clubs and casino's all work on several drums laid horizontally trying to match the symbols. What I am looking for is the same thing but vertically instead of symbols you have a picture split into 3, the idea being that you are attempting to spin the 3 body parts. It exists as a card game version and I am sure that I have seen something very similar in the machine form I want.
It is simply an old game but in machine form it would still be old but not quite as old as the card version. That said perhaps a victorian version is what I am thinking of having seen. many 'games' etc are based on victorian originals.

Slot machine in America. Don't get too high on the "victorian" originality there Mark, I am betting ou should look towards the orient for that original idea? Hehe, it took me a long time to figure out what you were talking about.

[Army]

Slot machine, One armed bandit, Mechanical Pick-pocket. In Las Vegas terms, it's known simply as a "slot"

[tropical_fishy]

No no, he's not talking about a slot machine. He's talking about those little toys that you get at like, the aquarium, that are 3-D octagons. Each side has a different animal, and you can make little mutant animals by turning different sections. Kind of like a rubics cube for the stupid kids.

[MarkM]

No no, he's not talking about a slot machine. He's talking about those little toys that you get at like, the aquarium, that are 3-D octagons. Each side has a different animal, and you can make little mutant animals by turning different sections. Kind of like a rubics cube for the stupid kids.

That's as a good a description as I have seen and I have been searching online stores for special needs toys, the pictures I will change for a more adult theme but to date no joy in finding anything.
Lohman, quite possible it is the Orient that had the original concept after all where do the prayer wheels come from, but the Victorian era would have been the time for conversion to a 'game', no way am I buying an orginal as a modern version will do nicely. Different cultures have different toys, in 50/60's America (if TV and movies are to be believed) had children wearing caps with propellers on the top pulling small wheeled barrows but that never happened here, so the hope is it is an america toy I had seen that never really took off here.

[billybob_81067]

the pictures I will change for a more adult theme

Ohhhhh.... we didn't need to hear that! Remember this is a PG 13 forum!

[SCpoloRicker]

I have seen and I have been searching online stores for special needs toys, the pictures I will change for a more adult theme but to date no joy in finding anything.

He's a witch! Burn him!

/various other MP references