FLATBOY for pubs

The table everyone
crowds around.

90 × 42 cm of walnut, only 5.7 cm thin, with a 27-inch screen between two players: it sits on any table in your pub. One scan with Vipps and they're playing, while half the pub shouts at the big screen. You don't lift a finger, and the table pays its way.

Bring FLATBOY to your pub See what it earns
  • kr 20a session
  • 8 minof play
  • 2players, one scan
  • 0coins, cash or staff
The FLATBOY pub edition: walnut under a clear acrylic top, a football match on the screen with a Vipps code in the middle and Scan to play turned to each end

How a session goes

Scan. Play. Get your name on the wall.

  1. The table seen from one end: a match plays under a Vipps code, Scan to play turned to each player

    One scan, both play

    The table plays itself until someone walks up. The Vipps code sits in the middle of the screen: one scan, kr 20, and both ends are in. The other one just sits down.

  2. A FLATLEAGUE match on the table with the players' names in place of the teams and the session clock

    Eight minutes of trouble

    Pick a game and it starts at once: no menus, no settings. Your team carries your name. The clock runs eight minutes across as many games as you like, and the last goal always counts.

  3. Full time on the table: KARI_K wins 3–2, second best tonight at the pub, a code to keep the result

    Full time, and a rematch

    The winner gets the card, tonight's place and a code to keep it. The loser gets "another 8 minutes?" in big letters. Most of them say yes.

The big screen

The whole pub watches the match.

Your TV shows the table's screen standing, top to bottom, with the score, the names, the clock and tonight's results beside it in big type. Between matches it runs the night's board and a code: challenge the winner. It works on the TV you already have.

  • Live, at the same speed as the table
  • Names, score and clock you can read from the bar
  • Tonight's results and the week's best between matches
  • "Challenge the winner": the queue forms by itself
The pub's TV: the table's FLATLEAGUE match standing on the left, KARI_K 1–0 OLA_B in large type on the right, the clock and tonight's results below

For the pub

A table that brings them in, and keeps them there.

Another round

A rematch takes eight minutes and a scan. People who play stay for the next one, and the next drink with it.

A till that runs itself

Guests pay with Vipps on their own phone. No coins to empty, no cash to count, nothing for the staff to do.

Something to come back for

Tonight's best, the week's best, the pub champion. Names on your TV and on flatboy.no bring them back on Thursday.

Event nights, ready made

Start a tournament from your phone: sign-up on the guests' phones, the bracket on your TV, a pub champion by closing time.

Pub against pub

Your best five against the pub down the street. A city league with a season and a final night.

Nothing to look after

Games and updates arrive by themselves. Prices, opening hours and volume are a few switches on your phone.

The money

Pick the deal that suits your pub.

The way pool tables and jukeboxes have always worked in pubs: we place the table and look after it, and you share what it takes. Or keep every krone, with a fixed fee or by owning it.

Most pubs

Share

50 / 50

No cost to start. We bring the table, set it up and look after it. The takings are split down the middle, every month.

  • Delivered, installed, serviced
  • Vipps pays out to you, we invoice our half
  • Games and updates included

Lease

100 %

A fixed monthly fee, and every krone the table takes is yours. For pubs that know it will be busy.

  • Delivered, installed, serviced
  • All takings to your Vipps
  • Games and updates included

Own

100 %

Buy the pub edition outright. The table and the takings are yours; we keep the games coming.

  • The pub edition, yours to keep
  • All takings to your Vipps
  • Games and updates included

What it takes in your pub

One session is kr 20 for 8 minutes: a busy hour is 7.5 sessions, kr 150. Amounts before Vipps' fee.

Sessions a month
390
The table takes, a month
kr 7 794
Your half, with Share
kr 3 897
Yours with Lease or Own, before the fee
kr 7 794

The pub games

Short, loud, face to face.

Every pub game starts in one press, plays two against each other (or one against the table), and fits eight minutes.

FLATLEAGUE box front FLATLEAGUE Football, team against team. Your team carries your name. FLATRALLY box front FLATRALLY Three short races, side by side. The best time goes on the board. FLATDERBY box front FLATDERBY Four cars, one arena. The last car running wins. FLATCURE box front FLATCURE Four in a row, send them the mess. Best of three.

The real thing

Real walnut. Real sticks. Real buttons.

Photographed, not drawn: the table as it stands, before the clear top goes on for the pub.

Photo of the real table from one end: walnut top, a black ball-top stick and six black buttons, the screen behind them
Photo of the stick and six arcade buttons on the walnut
Photo of a rounded walnut corner over the black body
Photo of the walnut grain along the edge of the screen
Photo of the screen set into the walnut, the stick in front of it

The pub edition

A clear top for loud nights.

Close up along the edge of the pub edition: a clear acrylic sheet lies on top of the walnut, its cut edge catching the light, the buttons coming up through it and mirrored in its surface

Glass over the walnut

Three millimetres of clear acrylic cover the whole top, edge to edge. You see every bit of the walnut, and none of the evening touches it.

Pints welcome

A glass set down, an elbow leaned on, a fist on the table after a last-minute winner. Wipe it with a cloth and it's ready for the next two.

Cut to fit

Every stick, button and spinner comes up through its own hole, cut to fit. The screen sits under the same clear sheet.

Close up of one end of the pub edition: the stick and six buttons coming up through the clear acrylic over the walnut

The pub edition

Made for a Friday night.

  • Clear acrylic over the walnut. The whole top under one clear sheet: glasses, elbows and Friday nights welcome.
  • Locked to the pub. Guests see the four games and nothing else: no settings, no menus, no way out of the session.
  • Paid straight to you. Every scan is a Vipps payment to the pub's own Vipps account.
  • A game, not a gamble. You pay to play and win glory: names, titles, the board. No prizes, no licence.
  • Your hours, your volume. The table follows your opening hours and turns itself down when you say so.
  • Looked after from here. New games, updates and help arrive over your Wi-Fi.

Pre-order for pubs

Reserve a table for your pub.

The first tables go to pubs in Norway. Tell us about yours and the deal you'd like, and we'll come by with the table, set it up with your Vipps and your TV, and play the first match with your regulars.

  • No payment now
  • Share, Lease or Own: you choose when we meet
  • One table or a row of them
The deal you're thinking of

Questions from the bar

Is this gambling?
No. Guests pay to play a game, the way they pay for a pool table. Nobody wins money or anything of value: the prize is the name on the board.
Where does the money go?
Every scan is a Vipps payment to your pub's own Vipps account. With Share we send an invoice for our half once a month.
What does it need?
A sturdy table to stand on, a power socket and your Wi-Fi. For the big screen, the TV you already have.
Do guests need an app or an account?
No. Vipps is the only app, and almost everyone in Norway has it. A profile for the boards is optional and takes one tap.
What if something breaks?
With Share and Lease we fix or swap it. Most things we can see and sort from here before you've noticed.
Can we run our own nights?
Yes. Start a tournament or a free-play evening from your phone, and set a happy-hour price for the table.