Action / Dexterity

"Ker Plunk is the game where you take your pick and pull a stick. If all the marbles fall, you lose it all! You're only sunk if they go...Ker Plunk!"

This classic game of skill can be learned in seconds, but it offers a fun test of hand-eye coordination that is challenging to people of all ages and skill levels. As a result, Ker Plunk was a popular favorite among skill-game enthusiasts throughout the 1960s and '70s.

The game consists of a clear plastic tube, 30 thin sticks, and 32 marbles. Play begins with the players inserting the sticks through the tube and then pouring the marbles into the top of the tube. The sticks act as a web that block the marbles at the top of the tube. At this point, the players begin to carefully remove the sticks one by one. The goal is to get the stick out without making any of the marbles sitting on top fall through. If any marbles fall through, the person who made them fall collects them. Once the last marble has fallen, players count their collected marbles, and the player with the fewest marbles wins the game.

Ker Plunk was first published by the Ideal Toy Company in 1967, then later by Mattel and finally by Tyco in 1991. Mattel also published a variant of this game called “Super Ker-Plunk!”, which is the very our library carries.

Its a Super Spin on the Classic Marble Game! Offers lights and sounds!

Note: This game is available by request only and requires having a membership to play.
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A fast and lively game of flipping cards and slapping moustaches.

The goal of the game is to collect the most cards. Each player holds a suction-cupped moustache on a stick under their noses. A moustache card is played from the deck face up at the center of the table. If the moustache shown on the card matches the color or shape of your moustaches, slap it! The first player to do so collects the card as a point (or pays a penalty if he slapped the card incorrectly). When the deck runs out, the player with the most cards wins.

"A fleet of ships at your fingertips"

This huge box (88 x 44 x 7 cm) was part of MB's Floor Wars Series. Indeed, it is playable only on a floor --unless you have something large to put it on, like Ping-Pong tables.

This game is an introduction to naval miniatures of sorts; each player has four very large miniatures of WWII vintage ships (a battleship with its three escort ships) which manoeuvre about the large board. The players also have a "torpedo launcher" shaped like a submarine which fires discs that glide along the playing surface. The players aim at specific places along the ship waterlines. There, slots allow the discs to slide under the ship and trip a rubber-band mechanism which sends part of the ship's superstructure (or gun turrets) flying, simulating damage.

Note: This game is available by request only and requires having a membership to play.
See game associate for details.

A "Hide-and-Seek" game for 2 to 6 players.
One player acts as wolf, and gives the other players 5 seconds time to hide their goat in one of seven furniture pieces. The Wolf then can look at 2 pieces and capture all the goats that are present there. The undiscovered goats get points.

Awards

2009 Golden_Ace, French Childrens' Game of the Year

An expansion for A la carte that introduces new gourmet desserts for avid gamers including Spice Dice, Salty Dogs or the fiery Pomitos Frititos.

This expansion contains 4 mini expansions for A la carte and the components necessary to add a fifth player.

Menus

Before the game starts each player receives 3 menus and chooses one. He doesn't let the other players know which menus he/she has. If a player successfully prepares the dishes on the menu, at the end of the game he/she receive extra victory points. Otherwise he/she gets no extra points. For some of the menus the player also needs at least one star.

New Coffee Cups

Two new coffee cups are added to the game
- Trash can: Instead of choosing a dish from the table, a player can choose a dish from the trash can and place the dish in his/her pan.
- Flavor neutralizer: The player chooses a spice (even salt) from his/her pan and removes it from the game.

Salt Dishes

There are 5 different salt dishes. The salt dishes are placed along the other dishes. The dishes are cooked as normal, only salt is needed.

Spice Mixing

This is a new spice bottle that has 5 grains of each of the 4 different spices inside (for a total of 20). There is no salt in this bottle. A player can choose this bottle to add spices to his/her dish.