Of the two sets of rules I think the Milton Bradley rules are better. Meanwhile the Milton Bradley version of the game has you pick up all of the pieces you knock off with the ultimate goal of trying to get rid of all of your pieces. The Lakeside Toys version of the game uses the rules where you are eliminated if you knock over the tower. There are some variations on how Tipsy Tower is played because the rules have changed over time. If you read through the how to play section you might have noticed that there are two different ways that the game can be played. I still wouldn’t say that Tipsy Tower would be a good game but it would be significantly shorter and thus wouldn’t drag on for far too long. If the tower actually fell down with some regularity, the game would be quite a bit better. Adults playing the game with young children can also play the game more carelessly in order to give the young children a chance at winning the game. Young children likely won’t balance out the tower as well as adults would and they likely won’t be as careful placing pieces. This is just another example of why I think Tipsy Tower is just for younger children and parents. While a tower that is too unstable is also a problem, a tower that never falls down is very anticlimactic and leads to a dull game. If we wouldn’t have decided to end the game early, we might still be playing the game right now. We were able to add all of the pieces to the tower, take them all off, and then add them back again and the tower didn’t tip over once. As long as you aren’t careless when placing pieces and do a decent job balancing out the weight, I don’t see the tower tipping over. I honestly think we could have played the game for a half hour and it wouldn’t have tipped over once. Maybe it is because the pieces are too light or the tower just doesn’t tilt that much. While different versions of the game might differ slightly, the Lakeside Toys version of the game is just too stable. I think the biggest problem with the game is that it is really hard to knock down the tower. The game just has too little to it which makes the game boring for adults. With there being so little to the game I really can’t recommend the game to adults unless they are playing the game with young children. The only real strategy is to even out the weight when placing pieces to prevent the tower from tipping too far in one direction. The game’s rules are really simple as you just roll/spin and then add a piece to the tower. With some versions having a recommended age of 3+ Tipsy Tower is a game that is mostly meant for children. Just by looking at the box it should be pretty obvious that Tipsy Tower is a children’s game. Having played so many different stacking games, I honestly can’t think of a single mechanic in Tipsy Tower that I haven’t seen in another stacking game. Players take turns adding pieces to the tower trying not to knock over the tower. Basically Tipsy Tower is like every other stacking game. We have looked at quite a few stacking games in the past on Geeky Hobbies and after a while the games truly start to blend together as very few of these games do anything highly original. So I will admit that there really isn’t a lot to say about Tipsy Tower. If you use the rule where you have to pick up all the pieces you knocked off, the player who gets rid of all of their pieces first wins the game. If you use the rule where players are eliminated, the last player remaining wins the game. How the game ends depends on which set of rules you use. If all of the pieces are added to the tower, players roll/spin and remove a figure from the corresponding ring of the tower. Based on what version of the rules that you choose to use, the player who knocked over the tower is either eliminated from the game or they are forced to add all of the pieces they knocked off to their group of pieces. If while a player places a piece they accidentally knock off one of the other pieces, they must roll/spin and add that piece back to the tower. After placing the piece play moves to the next player. The player adds the piece carefully to the ring as to not knock over the tower. If the player rolls/spins “any ring” the player gets to choose which ring to place a piece on. The color rolled/spun determines which ring that the player has to add a playing piece to. On a player’s turn they roll the die/spin the spinner. In other versions all of the pieces are placed next to the tower and no player controls them. In some versions of the game the pieces are evenly divided between all of the players. SetupĪssemble the tower by placing each section of the tower on top of each other (the order of the colors don’t matter) and placing the cap on the top. Various versions of Tipsy Tower have slightly different rules which I will try to point out. How to Play | My Thoughts | Should You Buy? | Comments How to Play Tipsy Tower
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