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Tumball – The Nerve-Racking Bead Stacking Game
Can you keep your cool under pressure?
Tumball is a thrilling dexterity game that challenges players to carefully place beads on a suspended cluster of colorful balls. As the weight increases, the cluster becomes unstable—one wrong move, and everything comes tumbling down!
Gameplay Highlights
- Test Your Dexterity: Carefully place beads using wands, aiming to balance them without triggering a collapse.
- Strategic Stacking: As more beads are added, the structure becomes increasingly unstable—plan your moves wisely!
- Educational Fun: Enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and introduces basic physics concepts through play.
- Family Fun: Simple rules make it accessible for all ages.
- Award-Winning: Recipient of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2024.
Why You'll Love Tumball
- Family-Friendly: Perfect for game nights, parties, or classroom activities.
- Quick Setup: Easy to assemble and play, making it ideal for spontaneous fun.
- Portable Design: Compact components make it easy to take the game on the go.
Ready to take on the challenge?
Add Tumball to your collection and test your stacking skills today!
RickyMFV
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2025
Got this as an addition to family game night. My kids 10 and 13 had fun playing it. It is a bit challenging which is a good thing to keep the game interesting. Set up was very easy and take down after assembly is quick. However the plastic quality isn’t the best. I foresee issues with pieces breaking after some time of assembling and disassembling.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
I remembered how we use to do family game night at least a few times in a given month. I recalled the last time our family played a board game; it was too complex for my daughter to enjoy. The fun of doing our game night drained away, and we put our tradition on the back burner. Only by happenstance I found this game. I ordered it because I wanted to have a bridge back to our fun game nights.It was a breeze to assemble. And I like how short and succinct the single page of instructions is to follow. The balls are light weight and it’s easy to pick them up with the included wands. I liked how simple the game's concept is. Stack all the beads with the wand and you win if none of them ends up falling.Once I had the game assembled I placed the unique looking item on the table next to the marketing box it came in. When I called my daughter over to see what I had been assembling, it was an immediate hit. My daughter had put her electronic device down (a game on the iPad) and we got right into it.• We spent close to an hour playing with it and she forgot all about the iPad game she had put down. Here are the positive things she had to say: “Dad this game is 100% fun!” When I was putting game up for the night, she said, “I’m so glad we got to do that!” And she went on about how other extended family members needs to get this game too. I like that it was an immediate hit, and that she was excited enough she envisioned others enjoying it too. I like the fast paced game play too.• My wife is an educator. She added that this game would work in classrooms and special education classrooms.• There wasn’t anything I disliked about this game. I know that we will be starting with this game next time with my hopes of paving the way to reigniting our game nights again.• An improvement the manufacturer should consider: include a few extra colored balls but make them denser. By making only a couple of the balls heavier, it would be minimal in manufacturing costs. To make their product more versatile, a couple heavier colored balls would allow more white beads to stack. As is, it’s pretty sensitive for two players to get all 6 beads stacked. With four players it becomes that much more difficult due to how light all the colored balls are.
KathleenJB
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
I gave this game to my nephew and his young family. They have had fun playing it with their two older kids, age 5 and 7; it is too hard for the 2 1/2 year old, of course. It keeps their interest as the games are short, and they want to try again over and over. They say it’s a win!
Stacy Harrison
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2025
This is a good game to work on balancing skills. You need a very steady hand to make sure you don't bump anything and make the balls fall down--this may take a lot of practice! You can try starting with a smaller circle and working your way to a larger circle until you get the hang of it.For the family member I got the game for, they didn't really enjoy it very much because they aren't very steady. The slightest movement would make all of the colored balls fall and they'd have to start over, so it became frustrating the more this happened.
Pastor B
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2024
I ordered this for me to play with my grandchildren, but I got far more than I expected! A four-year-old (brilliant, of course), can play this with some obvious need to grow into the game. A five-year-old (again, brilliant, of course) plays this game like a pro – even realizing the need to immediately pick up any balls that roll on to the floor (and they do) so they won’t get lost. But what I hadn’t realized was that my wife and I would leave it out on the table and play it after dinner. It’s fun! Then my son came by and asked what “that” was, and he was hooked, too. So far we’ve managed to keep eleven of the white stacking beads suspended on the colored balls, but hope springs eternal, and we’re trying for more.This is an excellent game to play with children. It’s open to inconspicuous “friendly cheating,” where you can place a ball in just the wrong way to collapse the balls if you happen to be too close to winning. We’ve also changed the rules to make winning just adding one more ball to the stack then we had the previous time. Actually, I like that version of the rules the best. Printed directions for assembly and game play are included.The game is easy to assemble and the plastic parts are sturdy. They can be pulled apart for storage as well. My granddaughter saw the box and asked me, “How do you fit that game in that box?” I thought that a very perceptive question (proud grandfather speaking here).I think this would be an -excellent- game for a Christmas, birthday, whatever present, and I recommend it to you.
MastiffMama
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024
This was a major hit at our holiday party. We had a blast playing it when we were sober and even more once the drinks started flowing. Highly recommend!!
J&S
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2024
RulebookSo easy to understand because the rules are not complex.ComponentsEverything inside the box is very good to excellent. Blue Orange usually makes good quality games and this is no exception. The plastic for the base and hook are sturdy enough to last a while and the balls feel like thick plastic. I wish the box was a standard board game box and not shipping box type of cardboard. It still has art work but it will get worn out fast.GameplayYou put a white ball on a stick and try to lay it on the balls that are hanging from the hook without any white balls falling through. Inevitably, once enough are stacked the weight is too much and they start falling through. The person who runs out of white balls first is the winner. The only downside to the game is that if you are the first person to have a lot of balls fall through then there is no real way to catch up and it becomes obvious on who will win. Not that big of a deal, though, because this is a short and simple kids game. Kids loved it and I would recommend it!
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