Jokers and Marbles

Description

UPDATE: There is still enough of the dark gray to make several games.
So, I have been looking for other colors to work with and I just found a new darker brown pattern. Currently, therefore, there are four color patterns to choose from: dark brown, gray (while it lasts), light blue gray and light brown.
The light blue gray and light brown have textured patterns.

Your custom game comes with eight (8) interlocking, personalized game paddles, 40 marbles in a bag (5 each of eight colors), 8 instruction cards in a white storage box, and 4 decks of cards. If you want more paddles just message me.

Hi, and welcome to the Marble game. This fun game has several names, such as Jokers and Marbles or Pegs and Jokers. It is a bit similar to the game of Sorry, with a few fun differences: your marbles don’t get sent back to the start as often, and the team play towards the end of the game really speeds things up. The number of players can be 2-8, and you connect as many paddles as you have players; so the layout of the game is flexible and changes each time you play. Playing as teams is optional and works like this: when a player gets all marbles safely into the home position, the game is not over! Instead this player becomes a teammate with the person two places to the left and will now help move that person’s marbles. The way this works seems obvious when there are an even number of players, but with an odd number of players, it gets really wacky and fun.
You use decks of standard playing cards to determine how to move around the game paddles. Each player will typically have at least a half deck of cards. You can also use full decks each, if you don’t want to shuffle the discard pile as often.
If you want to play a quicker version of the game, just start with fewer marbles; this lets you tailor the game to the number of players and any time constraints you may have. Try it with just 1 marble each for a rapid, laughing game.
The paddles can be made with or without text carved into them. Typically this would be names, but could be other text as well – let’s talk about how you would like to personalize your game.
The paddles are made from melamine. After adding any desired text to the design, toolpaths are created and finally the carving is done with a cnc machine, as shown in one of the attached pictures.

WARNING! This game contains marbles which could be a choking hazard for children.