So much fun, but needs better protection against damage.

I would love to give this the full four stars, because it’s a lot of fun, but there is one thing that really bothers me! Giantville need to fix the packaging with this product. Others had problems with it arriving broken, I’m sadly not surprised by this. It’s packaged with only a thin, non-padded sheet of plastic around the parts. As a result, while mine arrived intact, the blue support parts had a lot of ugly scratches from rubbing together on them. A simple padded or even paper surround could save this from happening. When a product is highly priced like this ($299.99 at time of review) I want it to arrive flawlessly, instead of scratched up and looking used.

Apart from that, the set is a fun novelty, clever and great for anytime play, or even parties. It’s suitable for the garden, or the apartment. The set isn’t so noisy that apartment dwellers can’t use it, but be aware that ‘emptying’ the discs is the noisiest part and not suitable for early morning or night. It’s also hard to store in small places. So it definitely suits a yard or garden more. It can be left out too as the plastic is durable and rain shouldn’t affect it badly, though dragging it to a covered area when not playing would keep it good longer.

One clever thing is how the discs are designed to fall in a slight zigzag motion so if a little one sticks their hand through and the other drops a disc on them (good job guys! -_-) no-one gets hurt. The discs are emptied half at a time, by pulling out a red strip at the bottom and there are enough to fill the whole game board. It’s really fun and would make a great game for a party! Because it’s simple, kids pick it up really easy, but it’s designed for two players so they’ll have to team up or wait their turn for big groups.

Assembly is pretty easy, taking less than 15 minutes, there are detailed diagrams and instructions provided.

Overall, it’s a fun game that will delight kids (or yes drunk adults), but could use better packaging to prevent damage to the set.