Customer Reviews

Doubles Wild

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This game plays beautifully and looks great. It's really quite a simple game to learn, you are trying to get 3 or more in a row of your color marbles. You roll the red and blue dice and start at the intersection of the numbers that you rolled (numbers in red and blue are printed along the edges of the board). You can then place your marble into that pocket or take a second roll and adjust the row (red) or column (blue) to manoeuver for a better pocket.

The manufacturer has produced a gorgeous solid wood board with colorful solid glass marbles and even nickel-plated scoring pegs. The game comes with a clear (wow!) lid so you can see the beautiful board and marbles. There are even rules in English and French (why?).

Two caveats: the game is quite heavy, so if you are mailing it as a gift, you might prefer to have toysrus.com mail it directly. Also, there are many small marbles, so if you have very little kids at home keep this away from them.

This is a fun, simple, thinking game. A nice change from the noisy mindless electronic stuff.

Doubles Wild is a fun strategy game. Good for all ages. We have enjoyed playing it with our teenage children. It is a great educational game involving strategy and statistics.

This is a wonderful game for mixed ages to play. The level of concentration is very high which developes a keen eye for strategy and an excellent lesson in respect for other players. The combination of physical and mental stimulation is comparable with a good game of chess only a bit faster paced. The plotting of variable points makes it a good primer in map reading and navitation.

We had an earlier cardboard and plastic version and unfortunately lost so many of the colored markers that we couldn't play it anymore. Couldn't find it in the stores but did find it via the internet and bought it again. It's good because of the skills you use while playing it, risk assessment, strategizing your marker placement, etc. And it's not too long. I hate long games (Parcheesi makes my head feel like it's going to explode).