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Cassado

rolling marble, skidding disc

Marbles roll down chutes and are meant to push a wooden disc into the diagonally opposite target zone. Each hit in the target zone scores one point.

The board measures 71 x 71 cm and is equipped with four chutes in four colors in its corners. Two wooden bars with pegs are used for scoring – if you achieve a hit and score a point, you take a peg from the bar and put it next to your chute. In a game for two players you can use the bars for boundaries to fence of parts of the board so that only two chutes with opposing target zones remain available.  

All players take their first metal ball in hand and on a signal let it roll down their chute into the playing fields. The chutes can be rotated and thus can precisely target  the disc. When the first marble is in play, players can use their four remaining ones and, of course, adjust the chute after each marble. When all five marbles are in the field, you can pick them up again, but can never use more than five marbles. If you are first to score five points, you win.

If you want to vary the level of difficulty you can use two wooden rings for target objects and you can also play a team version.

Cassado is offering a very simple game mechanism that is lots of fun to play and at the same time offers exercising a lot of abilities – action/reaction, motor skills, hand-eye-coordination, counting and also assessing the influence of speed on the consequences of marble hitting disc. Cassado also works well for a family game and is well worth its price due to its high-quality wooden material and its size and also the variability it offers.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 180 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2016

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Dexterity 

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

High-value components

Very big

To be played on the table or on the floor

Compares to:

All marble rolling games with moving interim target

Other editions:

Currently none

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