Inside the New Play Playground at Luxor – Worth a Visit?!

Key Points:

• Play Playground is a 21+ venue with life-sized carnival-style games, puzzles, and boozy concoctions.

• The games are intuitive, easy to understand, and legitimate fun.

• This would be a fun attraction for groups to tackle together, as it’ll drive conversation and get the competitive juices flowing.

Vegas is known for “gaming”, but historically, that term meant risking one’s money on the casino floor.

Fortunately, for those young at heart, carnival and arcade-like attractions like Luxor’s Play Playground have been growing in popularity.

Play Playground offers 20+ carnival games requiring zero skill, prior training, or athletic ability – They’re intuitive.

I recently stopped in to help you determine if it’s worth a slot in your itinerary.

Cost and Ticketing

First, some housekeeping – Tickets to Play Playground come in two distinct flavors:

All-Day Play passes cost $37 and give you access to the facility all day, but only enough credits to play 12 games.

Very Important Player (VIP) passes cost $95 and provide enough credits to play 24 games, a VIP lanyard that grants front-of-line access, a free cocktail, a souvenir cocktail cup, and a hat.

They offer a 20% discount to Nevada locals and members of the military, however, discounted tickets need to be purchased at the front desk.

Inside Play Playground

I could feel a light wave of childish glee coarse through my veins after walking in and surveying the scene.

Games at Play Playground that were generating the largest crowds included:

Bullseye Bounce: Participants strap into a velcro suit, bounce on the trampoline, and then get stuck on the inflatable target wall.

This one was hilarious to stand back and watch.

Poker Parkour: The challenge here is making it through the line of swinging poker chips without being struck and knocked off the beam.

Ringer Run: I hope you have a steady hand. Players earn points by running a metal ring down this wavy monstrosity without touching it.

Doctor! Doctor!: A puzzle of sorts, the patient’s cavities are illuminated with colored lights at the beginning of the game.

Players are then tasked with remembering those colors and putting him “back together” with colorful bones. Only, you need to connect like-colored bones, like in the game of dominoes.

Perfect Popper: The game plays like the board game “Perfection”. Place as many shaped pieces found in the bins below into their corresponding hole in the wall above before time runs out.

Word Up: Follow the on-screen prompt and make as many words as possible using only the letters provided.

While these are a few of the more popular games, there are 15+ more that are just as intuitive and fun to play as these.

Notably, there’s also a spattering of smaller unscored free-to-play games including mazes, handheld puzzles, and more.

There’s even a free photo booth that has props and sayings to pose with.

Another fun freebie was this giant “Lite Brite” board, but guys… you need to chill. Let’s be appropriate going forward.

Around the venue are leaderboards displaying the high scores for individual games and the highest cumulative point earners – A fun feature for those who crave competition.

There’s even a twisty slide that I rode from their second floor down to the main level – At 6′ 5″ though, I think I’ll pass on a second attempt.

There was even a mirrored room full of shiny beach balls, which got old quickly but could make for a fun photo.

I also felt like the employees here were amazing. Everyone I interacted with was happy to explain games, or even demonstrate them. It was a welcoming environment, which helped facilitate fun.

What’s Not To Like?

Drink Pricing

There are 2 bars on the main level, but drinks aren’t exactly a bargain at $15 -$20 per. While that’s pretty standard Vegas pricing nowadays, it’s not exactly a bar I’d choose to belly up to for the night.

Pregame accordingly.

Some Wear and Tear

While this is a new attraction, I could tell that several games already needed some love.

For starters, it looked as though the “Bullseye Bounce”, which tasks the player wearing a velcro suit to jump against a velcro wall, has lost some of its “stickiness”. Bigger men in particular were bouncing right off of it without sticking.

Another game, “High Five” tasks players with slapping as many lights on a clear plexiglass wall as possible during their turn.

That plexiglass wall got pretty nasty with greasy hand smudge marks all over it.

I saw an employee wiping it down when on my way out, but know that it can occasionally get nasty.

Many of the silver balls in the mirrored room mentioned above also had a “crusty” grime on them and could likely stand to be cleaned or replaced.

No Bathroom

If the urge hits, you’ll have to leave and use a bathroom at Luxor. Not a huge deal, but slightly inconvenient.

The Verdict: Is Play Playground Worth a Stop?

This is a worthwhile stop if this is your “type” of attraction – You know who you are.

I feel the cheaper 12-game package is the better deal – It’ll let you play the games you find most interesting and breaks down to a tad over $3 per game played, which seems fair.

This would be a perfect team-building activity for work groups, or any group coming to Vegas together.

The games are competitive, easy to understand, and social in nature – You’re going to have fun.

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