Describing themselves as ‘The UK’s #1 IT consultants’, Pete Sutton and Lloyd Henning are Foxdog Studios, offering a new high-tech version of traditional bingo which the audience play along with on their phones. This futuristic, highly interactive version of the traditional game is called Robo Bingo, and while Sutton and Henning do shows for grown-ups as well, this particular version is specifically aimed at those eight and upwards.

Potential Robo Bingo Kids need a fully charged phone and quick fingers to take part; they’ll be keeping track of bingo numbers as they’re called on their phones, but also controlling a ‘binglet’ avatar on a communal screen, so players need to make sure they build the most distinctive avatar possible. The result is chaotic to watch, but highly amusing to take part in; Foxdog correctly anticipate that given any interactive responsibility, most kids will actively try to destroy the parameters of the game, and that’s exactly what happens.

Many have tried to master technology at the Fringe, but few have succeeded. Robo Bingo Kids is a deliberately ramshackle proposition at times, with simple puppetry, silly side-games and lame prizes. But the climax, in which the audience try to coax a reluctant binglet to dance again by making their avatars cavort en-masse, is uproarious and just lacks a punchy ending to finish on a technology high. Adults will appreciate running jokes (like the IT consultants getting all time-sensitive estimates wildly wrong) but kids will be too busy frantically mashing the buttons to care.

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo Kids, Underbelly Cowgate, until 24 August, 12.55pm; main picture: Matthew Fleming.