Gem Rush – Exhibition Stand Match-3 Game with QR Lead Capture

Gem Rush: the Match-3 Exhibition Stand Game that Collects Your Leads

A branded match-3 game that visitors play on their own phones at your exhibition stand in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and across the GCC. They scan your QR code, enter their details, chase combo scores for sixty seconds, and climb a live leaderboard. You download every player as a lead.

What Is a Match-3 Exhibition Stand Game?

It is a lead-generation tool shaped like the most familiar game on earth. A QR code on your stand opens a short match-3 round in the visitor's phone browser, branded entirely as yours. Before the first swap, the visitor completes the form you designed: name, email, mobile, company and any question you want answered. They then line up three or more of your icons, chain cascades for combo points, and watch their score land on the leaderboard. Nothing is installed, nothing is shipped, and nothing on the screen says who built it.

Highest score wins. That matters at a busy exhibition: a score-ranked game invites the replay. A visitor who finishes fourth will try again, and again, and each attempt is another sixty seconds in front of your team.

Why a Game Instead of a Fishbowl, a Clipboard or a Badge Scanner?

Because almost nobody wants to fill in a form at a stand, and almost everybody will play for sixty seconds to beat the name above them on a screen. The form becomes the price of playing, so it gets filled in properly.

Fully White Labelled: Your Brand, Your Icons, Your Game

A visitor never sees a supplier name. Everything on the player screens is yours:

• Your logo on the start screen, the game screen, the result screen and the leaderboard.
• Your exact brand colours, set as hex values for the primary, accent, background and text colours, which the gems themselves are drawn from.
• Your game name and tagline, so the game is named after your campaign rather than after a product.
• Your gem icons. The tiles can be replaced with your own icons, product symbols or category artwork, so visitors spend sixty seconds lining up your products instead of generic gems.
• Your prize text, including the time of the draw, so the crowd comes back for it.
• Your form, your consent wording, your privacy link and your own marketing opt-in line.
• Your own clean short link for the QR code, for example /yourbrand.

Custom icon sets, board sizes and difficulty are part of the setup conversation, not a paid add-on module. Send what you have and it is built in.

How It Works at the Stand, Step by Step

• Step 1 – Reserve your exhibition days. Choose the dates of your show and order on this page like any other print order.
• Step 2 – Send your brand kit. A logo, two colours, a game title, a prize line, and the questions you want on the form. Icons and artwork if you want your own gems.
• Step 3 – Receive your game within 24 hours. You get a live link, a print-ready QR code in SVG and PNG, a preview link to test on your own phone, a leaderboard link for a TV, a kiosk link for a stand iPad, and dashboard access.
• Step 4 – Print the QR code. Put it on a roll-up banner, a counter card, a table talker, a backdrop or staff T-shirts. PrintOnline prints all of those, on the same invoice.
• Step 5 – Test before the doors open. Until the start date the public link shows a Coming soon page with a staff password box, so your team can rehearse without polluting the leaderboard. Test plays are never recorded.
• Step 6 – Visitors scan and play. Ten people can play at once on their own phones. No app, no queue, no staff member holding a tablet.
• Step 7 – Watch the leaderboard do the work. It refreshes every six seconds on the stand TV. A visitor who is fourth at 11:00 comes back at 15:00 to reclaim first place, and talks to your team both times.
• Step 8 – Download your leads. Excel, CSV or PDF, as often as you like, from the stand or from the office.

What You Get With Every Reservation

• A branded match-3 game on its own link, set up for the exact dates of your show.
• A print-ready QR code in vector SVG for print and PNG for screens.
• A live leaderboard page for a TV or tablet at the stand, in your colours, which never shows a visitor's email or phone number.
• An iPad kiosk mode that resets between players and wipes the previous visitor's details.
• An exhibitor dashboard with a live funnel from scans to finished games, top players with their contact details, and every lead with a timestamp.
• Excel (.xlsx), CSV and PDF export, unlimited.
• A consent record on every row and a separate, never pre-ticked marketing opt-in.
• Player and dashboard screens in English, Arabic with full right-to-left layout, Spanish and Chinese.
• A pause and resume control, so you can stop the game during a keynote at your stand.

How the Scoring Works, and Why Visitors Replay

Clearing a line of three or more removes those tiles, the board collapses, new tiles fall in, and any new line that forms clears again as a cascade. Each cascade level multiplies the points, so a single well-chosen swap can be worth far more than three ordinary ones. Longer lines pay a bonus of their own.

That is deliberately a skill curve rather than luck. A visitor who scores badly understands exactly why, and wants another sixty seconds to prove it, which is the behaviour that fills a stand.

Difficulty is set per campaign through the number of tile types on the board: four types makes an easy, high-scoring game for consumer shows, seven makes a harder one for a technical audience. The board is eight by eight as standard and can be changed.

Match-3 or Memory? Which Exhibition Game Should You Choose?

Both run on the same platform, with the same branding, the same dashboard and the same price. The difference is how a winner is decided.

If you exhibit several times a year you can run the match-3 game at one show and the memory exhibition stand game at the next; the branding carries over.

Is the Leaderboard Fair? Can Visitors Cheat?

The score is recomputed on our server from the swaps the phone reports, not taken from the visitor's phone, so an edited score is rejected outright. An invalid swap is treated as tampering and the session is flagged. Statistically implausible results, such as a move rate near the mechanical limit, are marked in your dashboard for a human to check before you hand over a prize.

Visitor Data, Consent and UAE Compliance

The leads are yours. Every row carries the consent text the visitor actually saw, the time they agreed and the device they used, plus a separate marketing opt-in that is never pre-ticked, in line with UAE PDPL and GDPR-style practice. Data is held in the UAE, never sold and never shared. It is deleted automatically after the retention period: 90 days after the event, or 365 days once you have exported it. The leaderboard shows first names and initials only. Individual game pages are excluded from search engines, so a visitor's play is never indexed.

Which Exhibitions and Venues Does This Work For?

Any show with mobile coverage, which is every major UAE venue. Games are set up per stand per event, for the exact dates of the show.

• Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) – GITEX Global, Gulfood, Arab Health (WHX Dubai), Big 5 Global, Beautyworld Middle East, WETEX, Intersec, Automechanika Dubai, Airport Show, Najah, ARABLAB, GESS Dubai, SGI Dubai.
• Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo City Dubai (DEC) – Jewellery Gem and Technology (JGT), Dubai Muscle Show, Baby and Kids Expo, The School and Nursery Show.
• ADNEC Abu Dhabi, Expo Centre Sharjah, Dubai Harbour, Festival Arena and hotel conference venues.
• Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, and international events on request.

Confirm your dates with the organiser, then reserve those exact days here.

Who Uses a Match-3 Exhibition Game?

• Exhibitors with a stand at a trade show, consumer expo, conference or product launch, from a 3 by 3 metre shell scheme to a 200 square metre island stand.
• Consumer-show exhibitors at food, beauty, fitness, baby, jewellery and travel exhibitions, where footfall is high and attention is short.
• Marketing teams who have to report a lead count to the business after the show.
• Stand builders and event agencies adding digital engagement to a client's stand without buying a platform licence.
• Retail and mall activations, roadshows, staff events and conference sponsor tables.
• Sponsors who need a measurable result from a branded presence rather than a logo on a wall.

Delivery: Nothing Is Shipped

This is a digital product. There is no courier, no delivery charge and no delivery date to check at checkout. You receive a link, a QR code file and dashboard access by email, normally within 24 hours of your order, set up and supported from Dubai. The one thing worth printing is the QR code, and PrintOnline prints roll-up banners, counter cards, table talkers, backdrops, badges, lanyards and T-shirts to carry it.

Ready to Turn Stand Traffic Into a Spreadsheet?

Reserve your exhibition days on this page, send your logo and two colours, and your branded match-3 game is live within 24 hours. See the rest of the shelf in Exhibition Giveaways & Stand Games. The price on this page is per exhibition day, with no licence, no set-up fee and no charge per lead.