Can you bring your marbles together just right for the ultimate popping score? Be strategic in your placements in order to make the most of your scoring opportunities!

What Is It?

✨Theme – Abstract / Marbles
🎯The Goal of the game is to score the most points
⚙️Open Drafting – Players will draft a marble card each turn, which will determine what they will put into their tray
⚙️Puzzle / Pattern Building – Whenever a player has a group of 3 or more marbles of the same color, they must “pop” and score them, taking the corresponding score card from the grid for the group’s size and color.

Who Is It For?

👥1 to 4 Players – Solo is a nice little puzzle. Multiplayer is fine at any count
👥Ages 8 & Up – Not too many rules, even with advanced mode. Maybe like a “Welcoming+” game
👥Fans of puzzley games of pattern building

PROS

🟢Aesthetics – Colorful look
🟢Components – The wooden marbles have a nice feel to them
🟢Fun puzzle – It’s not always easy to build up combos, but it’s satisfying when you do
🟢Rules are well written and clear
🟢Turns are pretty snappy
🟢I like that you can earn more bonus tokens if you make larger groups
🟢Advanced Mode gets players extra bonuses/points for popping larger groups, which I think is great because it incentivizes those bigger moves

CONS

🔴I wish there were more star tokens for the advanced mode
🔴I don’t love the scoring because the cards just fill into the grid randomly, so you might get 3 points for a size 5 group, and then next player gets 5 points for the same thing. I thought it should scale for the group size
🔴Replay Value – I don’t feel like the strategy changes much play to play

Final Thoughts

It’s a decent little puzzley game for a few plays. It feels similar to something like Candy Crush or Potion Explosion in some ways, but still does it’s own thing too. I wish the scoring was more about rewarding you for big combos, which the advanced mode helps with a bit, but overall the game works, and it’s alright if you like this style of game in general.

Additional Information:
My Final Rating – 5/10

Designers – Mads Fløe, Kåre Torndahl Kjær
Publisher – KOSMOS
MSRP – $26.95
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*I was provided a copy of this game to do this review*

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