A traditional target game. The target is a wall with five arches. The arches are worth points if you can roll one of your marbles into the opening. The scores 'on the doors' seems arbitrary; they are, from left to right, 7, 8, 5, 10, 3 . Above each arch is an animal; An elephant, a lion, a sea lion, a tiger, and an ape. The illustrations, that give the...
Imagine a high quality old-school style wooden table game that creates a 4 sided hockey-soccer field with pinball style paddles for each player. This 4 player family/party game is fast. Not just in the speed of play, but in the rapid fluctuations between triumph and anguish that each player endures as they quickly lose or gain Marbles. Be the first player...
Marbles was played by ancient Egyptians, who made them from small balls of clay. In Renaissance Italy, glass blowers made glass "marbles". The game has other names, like Potsie, Forts, Ring Taw, or Bossout. There is a national Marbles tournament that's been held in Wildwood, New Jersey every year since 1922. To participate in the national you must first...
This is a vintage Parker Brothers table game that combines pinball or pachinko with Tic Tac Toe. Judging by the art deco/American "streamline" design, the best guess would be that it dates from the mid-1930s to early 1940s. The playing field consists of a Tic Tac Toe grid with holes in each square surrounded with wooden pegs inserted at various points to...
In December 1932, during the great depression, Don Munro had no money to buy his children Christmas gifts. Instead Munro went into his basement and transformed his wife`s ironing board into a hockey game. This game is a variation of a modern table-top hockey game. Made by Munro Games Ltd. of Toronto, Canada. It uses spring action players and a pinball type...
Maneuver the steel ball through the wooden maze without falling into any of the holes. The surface may have numerous tiny pits and bumps, making the behavior of the ball all the more erratic, but that arguably adds to the challenge. An unplugged precursor to video games. The game was invented in the early 1940s by Sven Bergling in Tranås, Sweden. It was...
A game of marble rolling skill. Each player propels their marbles toward a scoring target area that is separated into point values from five to 25. The higher point areas are smaller and harder to hit than the low point areas. The number of players is limited only to the amount of time a player is willing to wait for their turn. It easily scales in the...