Carnival Midway Planner | mysimulator.uk

Build on the Midway

Click an empty grid cell to place the selected attraction. Toggle Erase Mode, then click a booth to remove it.

Crowd & Time

Visitor arrival rate 40/min

Simulation speed 1.0×

Live Readouts

Visitors on site

Avg. queue wait

0.0 s

Revenue collected

Legend

Walking to a choice Waiting in queue Being served Leaving the lot

How it works

Each visitor who enters chooses an attraction using a simplified Huff gravity model, the same class of formula used in retail-location and pedestrian-flow research: an option's pull grows with its own drawing power and shrinks with distance and how crowded it already looks.

score(i) = pull(i) / distance(i)^1.4 / (1 + congestion(i) × 1.5)
P(choose i) = score(i) / Σ score(j)   over all placed attractions j

Once a visitor arrives, the booth behaves like a small multi-server queue (an M/c-style system): up to capacity visitors are served at once with a randomised service time around each booth's mean; anyone beyond capacity waits in line and is served in arrival order. Every completed visit pays the booth's ticket price into revenue.

Ride — highest pull and price, long service time, capacity 8. Draws crowds from across the lot but queues fastest if it's the only big attraction.
Food Stall — moderate pull, short service, capacity 3.
Game Booth — lowest pull, capacity 2 — cheap to run but easily overwhelmed if placed alone.

Spreading capacity across several booths lowers average wait more than piling all capacity into one giant attraction — the congestion term in the score is what makes visitors route themselves around a backed-up queue, just as real crowds do.

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