A while ago the Dopers were magnificently useful when I was trying to remember what Capsela was, so here’s another one.
This toy was a wooden box perhaps 14 inches square and four inches high. The top of the box (the 14-inch square) had a maze made out of raised wooden walls, maybe a quarter inch high. At various points along the maze were holes leading to the inside of the box. The box had two knobs that let you adjust the tilt of the top maze plane in both dimensions. The object was to place a steel ball-bearing at the beginning of the maze, and, by adjusting the tilt of the maze, roll it through to the end while avoiding the holes.
If a ball fell through a hole to the inside of the box, the bottom of the box was slightly tilted so it delivered the ball to a holder on the outside.
I had one and it was called Labyrinth. It has been a long time since I used, or even saw, it, but I have fond memories of it.
ETA - I must have some sort of a time delay going on or something today.
Scroll down to the “people who looked at this also looked at that” bit. There are several that are very similar. The one I linked to sounds a bit shoddy, in fact.
Oh yeah. Once upon a time I was rather good at this.
For a serious contest, the idea was to take the ball forward through the maze, then back to the start, then repeat. Four or 5 cycles was competitive. Making a race of it added to the pressure.
I recall running into a guy who was seriously good - he could do it with crossed hands, bare feet, and even backward (looking in a mirror). I think he was actually getting fairly good with two balls simultaneously.
I used to be very good at this as a child. There’s probably still a Labyrinth in my mother’s storage room. The one we had had a set of different mazes that could be inserted, including one with no baffles.
There’s a commercial, I believe a car commercial playing a lot now. Lots of shots pf a car (maybe a couple) racing all over downtown while things fall in the way…
At the end of the commercial, it turns out that the cars are in a giant version of this game.
If there were Labyrinth halls, I could have been a Labyrinth shark. I could get through the whole thing in about 30 seconds. Then I found you could actually flip up the floor fast enough to pop the ball over the maze walls, and my time got below 10 seconds.