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| Brand: Trends Uk Ltd
Category: Toy
List Price: £14.99
Buy New: £11.24
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 45
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 4.9 x 7.1
MPN: 194459
EAN: 5011805194455
ASIN: B0010DKZTW
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Great fun November 16, 2008
WobBally is a sort of updated Kerplunk in reverse; a tower of balls are sandwiched between a number of rings and the object is to take it in turns to poke the balls into the centre without causing total collapse; last player standing is the winner. There are three games to play in the instructions: just poke whatever ball you like into the centre, roll a coloured dice to select the ball colour on your turn, and roll the colour and numbered dice to choose colour and level. The last game is the most fun, but for very young players, we had a three year old playing, the simpler game is best.
Obviously there is a fair chance that the balls are going to gradually disappear - probably into the vacuum cleaner - despite the plastic "wall" that comes with the game and which surrounds the tower during play.
Overall a fun game that even very young children can play.
 Wobbally Party Game November 15, 2008
This is a good quality, well designed toy with an ingenious design and self levelling mechanism. Slightly smaller than I thought - it's only 18cm high but for the price it is still value for money and makes a lovely looking gift. A more interesting present than Lego or Jenga for an individual or family.
I think it's best suited to older children 8+ as it's more difficult than it looks to successfully send a ball flying into the centre of the wobbly tower. My younger children also got frustrated with the time it took to rebuild the tower - 7 levels, counting out 14 balls each and 98 in total. There also seems to be a hide and seek element to this game as you hunt for 2 or 3 missing balls each time. Keeping an eye on 98 marbles isn't easy.
You have to play the game on a hard flat surface which means the balls bounce everywhere when the levels crash down. Playing it on a hard table means the balls gain maximum bounce to all 4 corners of the room. The game doesn't play as smoothly as you'd expect. A lot of the time more than one ball falls out and partial collapses are common. Trying to hit the balls nearer the bottom of the tower seems to help the game last longer.
It is fun and worth a try, especially if you like Jenga. There is no game quite like it on the market and I think anyone would be pleased to recieve it as a novelty gift. I don't think this will be played very often at our house because of the hassle factor of building it versus relatively short game play time but it's a game to try it out on all your friends and relatives if only to giggle at the look of concentration and performance anxiety on their faces.
Balls compared to Jenga November 12, 2008
This is essentially Jenga with balls, which sounds like a compliment but which isnt. This might look better than Jenga before the game begins with its seemingly impossible tower of wobbling balls but it just cant match the originals simple but brilliant gameplay. The set up is too complicated, the capturing collar completely ineffective (meaning you spend most of your time trying to find your balls. A reinvention of the wheel. Poking balls with sticks is just no fun whatever way you look at it!
 More like 'WHY-BALLY?' November 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Parents - avoid this game like ricin poisoning!
Every time we played it those attractive colorful balls went flying across the room. We tried standing the game in a tray but it didn't help. The manufacturers helpfully include 4 spare balls in the box. These will last you approx' 8 minutes.
The game itself is a variant of Jenga with balls instead of wooden blocks. Players poke at said balls with pink sticks until the tower falls over. It sounds like fun. It ain't!
So what's wrong with Wob-Bally (apart from the obvious choking/tripping/lost ball hazards.)? It's far to easy to knock the tower of balls over meaning you spend most of your time rebuilding it. The manufacturers are obviously aware of this too and the instructions recommend that when the tower is knocked down the responsible player is 'out' and the remaining players rebuild the tower and keep going. Unlike in Jenga where the tower has a decent chance of staying up for a good ten minutes minimum (depending on players level of cack-handedness), Wob-Bally does well to stay up for 3 minutes tops.
Credit to the designers, they have developed a very clever mechanism for keeping the tower level, meaning that it can be played on most flat surfaces. But the darn thing just doesn't stay up once you start poking at it with sticks. And good luck finding all the run away balls each time!
Even if you love building things and hunting around floors on your hands and knees, this gets pretty tired pretty quickly.
If this all sounds swell to you, trust me you really are much better off with Jenga, a lego set and a good old fashioned game of 'hunt the thimble'.
You have been warned!
Repetative November 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 8 year old son has played this a few times with friends as well as with me. He was not impressed and neither am I. First, getting the game level is essential otherwise there is a distinct danger the stack of balls will fall without have even started the game. We found it very difficult to get it level despite using the adjustment options that come with the game. Second, the whole tower has to collapse before a player is eliminated. So all but one of the layers of balls could fall at the start of the game but the player who caused this faces no penalty. It all comes down to the bottom tier falling. Third, after each collapse 1 player is eliminated and the tower has to be rebuilt for the next round. So if there were four players the tower would have to be recreated three times. The reconstruction takes far too much time. Fourth, the plastic apron that forms a wall around the game to stop balls going everywhere is useless.
So while this game looked good in prospect in reality it's rather poor. I doubt we will play it much again.
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