1970 Marble Mountain by Transogram, New York, U.S.A.

Description

“The Game of Dexterity and Suspense”

Here’s an excellent vintage dexterity game in very good order.  This rare game has survived in remarkable condition for its age, being well over 50 years old!  The game doesn’t appear to have had much use.  Made in the U.S. by Transogram Company Inc., 200 Fifth Avenue, New York.  Includes the original Instruction sheet.  All corners of the box are still intact.  Not sure how it made its way to this side of the pond, as I doubt it was ever retailed in the U.K.

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Description from the boardgamegeek site…

Marble Mountain is a children’s dexterity game.

The object of the game is to be the player who fills the most circles on his playing field by picking the appropriate color marbles off of the plastic mountain with the tweezers and setting them into the matching circles on his board, without causing an avalanche of marbles to cascade down the sides of the plastic mountain, and also without knocking any marbles out of their depressions on his playing field. The first child to cause an avalanche or knock over her marbles loses. In the event that none of the players create an avalanche or knock off marbles, then the first player to fill up all of the circles on her board wins.

Players must start at the base of their own mountain playing field and fill in the entire bottom row with marbles before ascending to the next row up. Since each playing field has a unique distribution of colors, players will need different colors of marbles at different points in the game. This means a layer of strategy can be added by trying to remove not only the color of marble you need next, but by selecting a specific marble of that color from the marble mountain that leaves your opponent with more difficult and avalanche-prone choices.