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Roll-a-ball is a simple yet challenging game that requires coordination, fast reflexes, and a delicate touch. Players must maneuver levers skillfully to guide a marble through pivoting parallel bars from the starting position to the base below without it falling off. Even for those who master getting the ball through, they then must reverse the pitch of the bars at just the right moment to send the caught ball in a new direction. The game provides plain fun with an emphasis on coordination rather than education.

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RollaBallGame PDF

Roll-a-ball is a simple yet challenging game that requires coordination, fast reflexes, and a delicate touch. Players must maneuver levers skillfully to guide a marble through pivoting parallel bars from the starting position to the base below without it falling off. Even for those who master getting the ball through, they then must reverse the pitch of the bars at just the right moment to send the caught ball in a new direction. The game provides plain fun with an emphasis on coordination rather than education.

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Roll-a-ball

Here's a game for both children and adults that YOUNGSTERS worn out by the "creative" toys
provides a real challenge to coordination, and push-button monsters they got for Christmas
fast reflexes and a delicate touch will find this game a welcome relief. It's plain fun,
with emphasis on coordination, not education.
By C. L. WIDDICOMBE
It's as simple to construct (mostly from
scraps) as it is to play. The principle is to zigzag
a large marble or steel ball from the starting
position shown above through the pivoting paral-
lel bars to the base. You've got to manipulate the
levers skillfully to avoid inclining the bars so
much that the marble shoots past the projecting
catch-end of the next-lower bar. And even when
you master this, you must reverse the pitch at
just the right moment to send the caught ball in
a new direction. If you seesaw the bars too
much, the ball just rocks back and forth at the
center. When you've mastered this, add a second
ball at the top when the first is halfway down.
To protect the pivoting mechanism, the panel
on which the bars are mounted is set in a grooved
frame. Softwood can be used for this frame and
Assemble the activating linkage with steel wash- for all base members, but the bars, pivot strips,
ers between all moving parts and under the levers and linkage should be cut from maple.
peened-over bolts. Keep contact points waxed Finishing of the bars is important, since the ball
must roll freely. Apply linseed oil, then two coats playing tip: When you grasp the levers, keep the
of shellac, rubbing each with steel wool. Then cams in constant pressure against the lower ends
brush on flat varnish and rub it smooth when dry. of the pivot strips. Apply wax to these contact
When you fasten the bars to the back panel, points to cut down friction and make the parts
place washers between them and the plywood— move freely.
and don't draw the screws snug. The screw holes
in the plywood should let them turn freely. At-
tach the pivot strips so the entire assembly will
respond freely to any movement of the cams. A

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