Rock Me Archimedes, Balancing Strategy Puzzle Marbles Family Board Game Retro STEM Learning Educational Toy, for Adults and Kids Ages 8 and up

This is a simple game for the whole family. It's easy to set up and start playing. Nice diversion from the media we all seems to focus on. It's perfect for after dinner or anytime. Doesn't have lots of pieces or rules. Small space is all you need to play. Better than checkers and easier than chess. Kinda like backgammon but simpler. We enjoy playing with the whole family. Worth the price. Last forever.

It's not super difficult to learn or play, so anyone could manage the strategy. Finding a more difficult way to play would be more entertaining. The pieces are nicely carved and sanded, and the game has a good weight to it. Very lovely, even if it is just meant to sit on a shelf.

Super fun game for middle schoolers. WE bought two of these for a strategy game table at our Departments STEAM Family Night. Kids really loved playing it. They are kind of pricey but top notch quality. Completely recommend buying, especially if you are a teacher.

Suitable for all ages, this is a firm favourite in our house of now teenagers. Fun, easy to set up, and great to play, this game will occupy players and challenge them to out-smart their opponent. A game can last minutes or hours, depending on one’s ability to pursue one’s own strategy while all the time interrupting the strategy of one’s opponent. It’s a high quality game so gets even nicer to handle over time.I highly recommend this game!

Fun and beautiful Design

Surprisingly good game. The strategies can change in an instant and the approach you thought would win the game suddenly becomes obsolete if your opponent changes their approach (and vice versa). Makes the luck in this game of strategy a bigger part than usual and keeps it fascinating for adults and kids. Hard to tire of a game that has so many facets. And it doesn't take all day to play (like Monopoly), so it's not hard to convince folks to play.

Beautifully made. Interesting concept. But the play is rather disappointing. The marbles provided are too light in weight. Even with trying to force the play so as to tip the board, it was impossible. You can place all 4 of your marbles in the end zone even with none of your opponent’s marbles in a position to counter balance them. I will be on a hunt for marbles with a more appropriate weight.

Shipped "marbles" does not seem to be made from real marble, but from plastic. They are light and you can easily balance 5 of them by putting one "marble" on the opposite side of the lever (see attached image). Probably, being made from real marble game would be more interesting, as the board would become more sensitive to player moves.Provided printed instructions are not clear, they mention putting marbles in the middle area, but there are 12 marbles of each color and the the darker area in the middle of the board (as in picture) can hold only 6 marbles. Where "middle area" starts and where it ends is an open question.Game essentially boils down to whoever rolls higher numbers wins. Marbles of opposite color can't block opponent moves, so even strategy of placing your marbles on the opposite board area to prevent your opponent from reaching to the his board area does not really work. We've tried playing with metal balls from Gravitrax instead of provided light "marbles" (Gravitrax balls are almost of the same size), thinking that being heavy board will start to rock and it will be challenging to reach to the end, but the opponent always can do the opposite move and all your attempts to block him does not work. At the end he needs to place only 4 balls from 12 in his area, which gives a lot of freedom and a lot of "free" balls for balancing the board while moving 4 of them to his end. And again, balancing is only needed if you use heavy balls, from metal, or from stone, with provided marbles you don't need to balance at all.Game looks more than nice decor than the real game. Also "marbles" are blue and white and not black and white as in product picture.