Marble drop is a fun, interesting and challenging game that stretches even the brightest player and can make anyone think.
The aim of marble drop is to guide differently coloured marbles into their colour-coded bins. Sounds easy enough, but once you start playing, a series of springs, cannons, teleports, tunnels, triggers, hammers, shoots and the occasional flame, that insists on reducing your well-earned marble into a lovely pile of glop, that have a way of getting in your road.
Whilst playing the game, you work your way through 50 levels, each named after a famous (and usually Greek) mathematician or all-round smart person ( like Archimedes) .
Marble drop is a fun, interesting and challenging game that stretches even the brightest player and can make anyone think.
The aim of marble drop is to guide differently coloured marbles into their colour-coded bins. Sounds easy enough, but once you start playing, a series of springs, cannons, teleports, tunnels, triggers, hammers, shoots and the occasional flame, that insists on reducing your well-earned marble into a lovely pile of glop, that have a way of getting in your road.
Whilst playing the game, you work your way through 50 levels, each named after a famous (and usually Greek) mathematician or all-round smart person ( like Archimedes) . You get a score for how well you went at that level. You gain points by running your marbles through certain obstacles
and you loose points by dissolving or losing your marble over an unseen ravine, forcing you to “buy” new marbles.
If a marble of a certain colour goes into a different coloured bin (for example, if a green marble goes into a red bin), a saw comes out and destroys your marble. If you “buy” a grey marble, it gets destroyed if it goes into any bins, but is useful, because it can be used to change the way mechanisms are facing, etc. and they only “cost” 50 points (opposed to the 100 for coloured marbles). Black marbles are also particularly useful, but very expensive. They cost 500 points (from memory!) but, when they land in a bin, they change their colour to conform to whatever coloured bin it lands in.
Marble drop is a fun game for all ages. It opens the mind in a fascinating and exciting way. Many of my younger friends have been mesmerized by its bright colours and interesting sound effects. There is cute music playing in the background which, in my opinion, helps to stimulate the mind.
I would certainly recommend this program to teenagers and middle aged or older children. It is handy for singles and could be used for school computers as an after-you-have-finished-your-work game. It is entertaining and forces you to think ahead and work out where things are going to go, what is going to happen if this goes there and that sort of future planning.
This is a wonderful game, recommended for all. This game is worth playing!
