Kerplunk

I brought my grandaughter a Ker-Plunk game for Christmas and we got it out yesterday to have a game with my friends little girl. It is a fun game but can be very noisy. Ker-Plunk comes in a box and has to be put together but this is very easy and it is just as easy to dismantle it again at the end of the game. It is one of the very few toys I can think of these days that does not need batteries because Ker-Plunk is just 2 plastic tubes that are joined together with a connecting mesh-like wider tube. You get lots of little plastic sticks which are pointed on each end and before you start playing you have to thread these sticks through the holes in ...  Read the complete review

Kerplunk is a wonderfully simple game and lots of fun to play for all ages, it can be a bit fiddly to set up at first but the rules are really basic and it is a well made game and a long time favourite of mine when I was young. My version is quite old so some of the materials might be a bit different in newer versions, such as mine has marbles whereas I'm sure plastic balls are now used. The main body of the game comes in two parts, there is a circular plastic base which has four sections to it, into this clips a clear vertical tower which in the middle it has a number small holes punched through it. At the top there is an opening through which the marbles can ...  Read the complete review

In this game you have a plastic tube with a base on it . The plastic tube has one hole in it and the base has 4 holes, one for each player but this game can be played with 2, 3 or 4 players. About half way up the tube there are lots of little holes which you have to push the straws through and on top of these straws you put the marbles. At the begining of the game the straws cover the whole of the hole in the tube. Player by player you take it in turns turning the tube so that the hole faces you and then pull out your chosen straw, if any marbles drop down you have to keep these. You do this untill there are no straws left. The player ...  Read the complete review

Oh the hours of fun I used to have with this one! My mum recently had a clear out of her loft so I got to relive the memories before trying to sell it on Ebay for her. The game consists of a plastic tube with a UFO style top. In this little contraption is lots of little holes. In the box you are also provided with lots of coloured sticks that are made of plastic and are thin and long. The idea is that you slot these sticks in the holes until the end is sticking out of the other side. Finally you drop in lots of marbles which are also provided and the game can begin. The idea of the game is to take it in turns to pull one of the sticks out of the ...  Read the complete review

Due to a lack of communication at Christmas I ended up with two kerplunk sets. I must say I was a bit surprised but I think the reason why I got them was because I had mentioned quite regularly that it was my favourite childhood game. The concept of the game is pretty simple - very gently pull the sticks out of the little holes without letting the marbles drop into your section. Easy. The problem is the sticks are very tightly packed together-forming a complicated map of criss crosses where any of the marbles could slip down. A few things I've discovered is that it is perfectly acceptable to very carefully flick a marble with your stick so it ...  Read the complete review