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A slightly unusual bowling alley is open! Its name is Wonder Bowling. Don't roll the ball here, bang the lane! and hit. Of course, the pins are knocked over, but the important thing is the remaining pins. Because if you kill all of them, it's a penalty, and if you leave only one, it's a strike! The secret to victory is control of the ball stick, neither too strong nor too weak! No bowling experience required! It's an action game that will make you laugh!
Wonder Bowling is a bowling game with a difference. The ball doesn't roll, it hits the lane and knocks down the pins with vibration. The important thing is not "the number of knocked down pins" but "the number of standing pins without falling down". "Strike!" Participants take turns hitting lanes and aim to be the first to clear all their goals.
- Awesome
- Novelty value is fun
- Can be explained in 2 minutes
- Simple enough for anyone to play
- Requires the box to be used as the bowling alley
- Bowling
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dexterity — What you're going to do, you're going to tap the box any which way you want.
- Target Shooting — If pins fall over and you have a token that matches the number of pins that are left standing, then you can turn over one of those tokens.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- So, if your favorite small box banger ain't on this list, that's because A, we ain't played it, or B, we think it's complete and utter dog [ __ ].
- We have got down to three cards with this and it was agonizingly close that we didn't beat the game, but it's [ __ ] awesome.
- The idea of the game is to empty your plits pile before all the other players.
- But with four players, it is absolutely insane.
- And this game really does shine at six players cuz there is more chaos than the aftermath of a Garen air raid.
- This is probably one of the best two-player games that we have going to say ever played.
- So, how they managed to cram so much [ __ ] into this tiny little box is like astonishing.
References (from this video)
- Family-friendly
- High replayability
- Space required
- Flicking to topple pins
- Bowling-themed dexterity
- Family-friendly
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Flicking — Score by leaving pins standing
- Flicking to knock over pins — Score by leaving pins standing
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- You control all cars with one card.
- This is devilishly delightful, Eric. I love it.
- Gloomhaven toss... Frost tossed.
- Devilishly delightful, I love it.