Sliding marbles game

Each player takes a turn rolling the marbles down the slope. If the marble lands in a hole the player receives the number of points assigned to the hole. The players keep score of their points. The winner is the player with the most points at the end of the game. Do you have a favourite Worldwide game that you want to share with all our readers? It's easy! All rights and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved This site may receive compensation for some or all referred products.

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I promise to use it only to send you Family Game Newsletter. The following are several of the marble games that are played in Japan:. A marble game similar to " Bounce-eye " only that there is no ring required.

The player puts his heels together, with toes apart and drops his shooter from his eye height. A marble game called " Measuring Worm " which is rather a very primitive game. The players place the target marbles at random on the ground.

They determine who goes first by playing rock-paper-scissors. The winner begins by tossing his shooter into the target marbles.

If, it is within span of his thumb to middle finger to his opponent's marbles, then he wins all of them. The player continues until he fails to span a shot and then it is the next player's turn. First, the players draw a star on the ground with a pitch line in front of the star, and a wavy lag line also the taw line 4 or 5 meters on the other side of the star.

Each player places 5 or 6 marbles into the star. They determine who goes first by pitching their shooter toward the lag line. The player closest to the lag line goes first. The players shoot according to the turn won. They shoot from the taw line trying to hit the marbles out of the star. The player knocking out the most marbles is the winner and keeps all of the remaining marbles left in the star. A marble game similar to " Hoshidashi " but played in a circle like " Ring Taw ".

A marble game called " Heaven or Hell " which is the most popular marble game in Japan and is similar to " Five-Holes ". You make five shallow holes in the ground 1 - 3 meters apart. The players determine turns by playing rock-paper-scissors.

In order of turn the players position themselves on the " Hell " hole and roll towards the " Heaven " hole. If, a player " makes " the " Heaven " hole or is the closest goes first, next turn.