Excel Vba Slot Machine
Writer's Block, the name of the game, was built entirely in Excel using a combination of conditional formatting, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and images, Lyman tells Mashable. In this case, an Excel Slot Machine! The intriguing RAND function returns a Random Number that is Greater Than or Equal to 0 and Less Than 1. Each time your worksheet recalculates, (by reopening or forced recalculation by pressing F9 ), the RAND function returns a New Random Number.
Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it's not just for spreadsheets anymore.
Believe it or not, you can turn the
This is a digital slot machine created using Excel VBA 365. In this example, start MS Excel and click the Developer tab. Click View Code to enter the Visual Basic editor. Insert a UserForm and design the UI for the slot machine. Insert three labels for displaying the digits, one label to display the 'Slot Machine ' name, two command buttons. Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a Slot Machine type game in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we need a form. I have mine set out as the following.
1. 2048
You may have heard of the addicting game 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli. This is the same exact game, just in Excel format.
In 2048 two tiles of the same number can merge into a new tile that equals the total value of the two. The goal of the game is to have a tile value of 2,048.
The geniuses at Spreadsheet1.com built an Excel version that allows you to play the game, and track your moves to help analyze your strategy. Since the game is made entirely in Excel, you can resume the game at a later time by saving the workbook, and it can be played online or offline. It is available for Excel 2007 or later, and can be downloaded for free here.
But what if you want to play this game and be discrete at work? Reddit user Krzychu81 created a version of 2048 with 'highly advanced cloaking mechanisms to camouflage itself as financial statements.'
To download this sneaky version, click here.
2. Candy Number Crunch Saga
In four days, Canadian accountant Cary Walkin created Candy Number Crunch Saga. The game is a satirical take on the famous Candy Crush Saga game we all know and love, by King.com.
The description states that the game 'takes place in the not too distant future where King.com (KING) has had a successful IPO. The burden is on you, brave stock trader, to invest wisely and become richer beyond your wildest dreams!'
This creative game has more than 35 news events that can realistically affect stock price and includes a real-time stock ticker.
Candy Number Crunch Saga is available on PC Excel versions 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.
3. Monopoly
Tumblr user Andrew Werner was playing the popular board game Monopoly with his wife and friend when he began to think of different strategies for the game.
After 12 to 14 hours of work, he created a Monopoly simulator in Excel using a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The game allows up to four players, and was updated in August 2011 with the option to choose 'human' or 'computer' players.
To download it for free, click here.
4. 3D Maze
Built into an Excel grid, 3D Maze was developed by Jordan Goldmeier from Option Explicit VBA. Goldmeier, a guest author on Walkin's blog, shared a step-by-step tutorial on how to create 3D mazes and posted this game.
Using the arrow buttons in the spreadsheet, you can easily move around the maze. Below the arrows, a map can also help you navigate the maze.
3D Maze is available on PC Excel versions 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.
5. Arena.Xlsm
In addition to Candy Number Crunch Saga, Walkin designed a full-length role-playing game called Arena.Xlsm. The game took five months to make, and was released last March. It features more than 2,000 possible enemies, 1,000 possible item combinations, a storyline with four different endings and 31 spells.
Arena.Xlsm is available on PC versions of Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.
6. Writer's Block
Kevin Lyman, a former Microsoft intern, built an original multiplayer word game that he describes as 'Scrabble meets Battleship.' Writer's Block, the name of the game, was built entirely in Excel using a combination of conditional formatting, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and images, Lyman tells Mashable.
Lyman is currently porting Writer's Block from Excel to mobile platforms, and plans to release it to Android, iOS and Windows Phone this coming November. The Excel version of Writer's Block is not available to the public, but will be once the mobile versions are out.
This is a slot machine that resembles the real slot machines in the casinos. To create the project, you need to insert three image boxes into the form and program them so that they will display a set of three different pictures randomly when the user presses on the spin button. It involves a randomization process. Next, a timer needs to be incorporated into the procedures so that the program can produce animated effects. In addition, you can also insert the Microsoft Multimedia Control so that it can play sounds in synchronization with the spinning of the slot machine as well as when the player hits the jackpot. You can design any interface you like. We have created an interface as shown below:
The Interface
The Video Demo
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The Code for Spin Sub Procedure
The three random variables a, b and c will be randomly assigned the values 1, 2 and 3 using the RND function. Based on these three random numbers, three different pictures will be loaded into the three image boxes randomly using the LoadPicture method. Animated effects are created by putting the above procedure under the control of Timer1, which will call the spin procedure after every interval until it fulfills a certain condition. Sounds are also added using the Microsoft Multimedia Control to make the game more realistic and interesting. The amount won is controlled by the If...Then...End If statements
It is important that you define the correct path for the LoadPicture method, otherwise the program will not be able to run. For example, our path is C:VB programImagesgrape.gif, you need to create the necessary folders and have the necessary image file if you wish to copy the program directly. If you place the image file in a differently folder, you need to modify the path accordingly. For example, if your image file is in D:VB programImagesgrape.gif, then you need to modify the LoadPicture method to LoadPicture('D:VB programImagesgrape.gif').
If you wish to use our image files, you can download from the links below:
sound and the other for the jackpot sound. Below is the video demo of the slot machine simulator.Excel Vba Slot Machine Machines
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