Balla Balla
Balla Balla Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Play Material
- 16 foam plastic balls of 3 sizes (4 balls each in red, blue, green and yellow)
- Fold-out perforated board (to be put into the box insert)
- Game instructions
Idea of the Game
Each player must „shoot“ her / his balls with the assigned colour through the perforated plates into the box. Who makes it first, wins the round of the game. Who has the most scores at the end of the game, will be the winner.
Game Preparation
- The fold-out perforated plate is inserted into the box insert (see Figure 1).
- The assembled game is placed in the middle of a sufficiently large table. The players sit in a way that each player has a perforated wall vis-à-vis.
- Each player takes all 4 balls of a certain colour.
- One player is the secretary and gets a pen and paper. She / he records the player's names and the scores of each round. (Pen and paper are not included.) (See Figure 2)
Figures 1 to 3 of the printed rulebook are illustrations and are not reproduced here.
Course of the Game
- Six rounds are played. (Certainly, the number of rounds can be agreed upon before the game starts and can be higher or lower.)
- The youngest player issues the command to start: „3, 2, Balla Balla“. Then, all players play simultaneously.
- All players start simultaneously with the „Balla Balla“-signal and try to throw their balls through the holes into the box.
- Here applies that the ball has to touch the table at least once before it flies through the hole of the perforated plate into the box. (See Figure 3)
- The ball must stay in the box. A ball that jumps out of the box again, must be collected and thrown again. With this, valuable time gets lost...
- A ball that gets into the box from the top (instead through a hole), will not be valid. As soon as a player sees that she/he has thrown a ball into the box from the top, she/he calls loudly „High Flyer“ and the game is stopped for a short time. The player gets this ball out of the box and calling the command „3, 2, Balla Balla“, the funny „Shooting at the holes in the wall“ will continue.
End of the Game and Winner
If a player has shot all her/his balls into the box, she/he shouts „Stop“ and will be the winner of the round of the game.
Now, the scores are evaluated as follows:
- 3 scores for the big ball
- 2 scores for the medium ball
- 1 score for the small ball
The winner of the game round automatically gets 8 scores. (3 + 2 + 2 +1 scores)
Example: Marc's balls all landed in the „Goal“ regularly. He shouts „Stop“. At this time, Kerstin has landed the small and the two medium balls and therefore, she gets 5 scores (1 + 2 + 2 scores).
In the next round, the player to the left of the first Start player begins.
At the end of the 6th round, the scores are added. The player with the highest score number is the winner.
If several players have the same score number, another round is required to determine the winner.
Variants
- „Small players“ only need to throw „small“ balls...
- It is possible to specify a minimum distance: e.g. all players must keep a distance of one metre to the box...
- Right-handers must throw with their left hand – lefthander with their right hand...
- The balls must – without bouncing – be thrown into the box.
- The perforated wall is displaced by 45 degrees, so that the players have to get their balls into the box „across the corner“.
Have fun playing this turbulent game!