Tagline: The Shaking, Quaking Action Game - Race Up the Beanstalk to Grab the Gold! Once Upon A Time there was a little boy called Jack... One day Jack planted a magic bean, which grew so high that it disappeared into the clouds. Jack climbed up from branch to branch. He climbed higher and higher, right up to the clouds - where he found a fearsome Giant...
A dexterity game from Milton Bradley's "T.H.I.N.G.S." line of games. Knock all of the wood slices from the rotating tree before the timer runs out. From the box: Can you chop down the stump before time runs out? Fit stump into base, then stack stump pieces onto buzzard post, facing target pegs in any direction. Fit post into stump hole and you're ready for...
An action cricket game. One player is the batsman, the other the bowler. The two, rather scary, figures have handles so that their arm can be pulled back and then released forward. The bowler's arm will launch a ball at the batsman. He, in reply, will try to swing his bat and connect with the ball. The player who scores the most runs (i.e. hits) will win....
A pile of plastic or wood objects (axes, rifles, brooms, crutches etc.) are dumped on the table. Players use metal hooks to extract an object from the pile, without moving any other items. If they succeed they keep the item and try again. If they move any object other than the one they attempt to pull out, their turn is over, and then it is the next...
A variation on the classic game of jacks for any number of players, Jacknak substitutes 10 cubes with a letter on each side for the jacks. The game includes a wide variety of ideas for "plays", or specific word/letter-oriented goals to be achieved while picking up the cubes or simply re-arranging them on the table. There is also pretty much infinite...
Five Stones is an ancient game played in various forms in most countries throughout the world. The rules vary slightly but typically they involve 5 to 10 stones or tokens of some type. The modern game of Jacks, using metal caltrops and a ball, is a descendant of this game. Unlike Jacks, Five Stones games require only pebbles or tokens. The game may also...
Played with 10 "jacks" and a small rubber ball. Players take turns. On a player's turn, he must first throw the jacks onto the floor. If any of the jacks land so that they are stacked on top of each other, he forfeits his turn. Otherwise, he begins to pick the jacks up in groups. He throws the ball up in the air, and must pick up a group and catch the ball...
Background: This game is a forerunner of many "dice" games and the game younger children play today which is known as Jacks. The game was "old" by the time it was played in Ancient Rome, since it had been played in Greece and other parts of the ancient world before it found its way to Rome. The game has many counterparts throughout the Middle East and...
Jackwagon A PARTY GAME FOR THE DERANGED is a tabletop party game. Players take turns drawing cards from a card deck and perform challenges to earn Badonka Dollars (play money. But BEWARE of the Jacked Up cards! With a Jacked Up card, the player then draws a Jackwagon card and ANYTHING goes with a Jackwagon challenge! If a player draws a challenge card they...