My grandson loves to watch all the marbles in this complex marble run. The young man has a scoring system (his own or a regular kid’s game?) that I just can’t figure out. He gives sort of an explanation in the beginning but I can’t make hear it very well and cannot figure out the logic.
He starts with 4 bowls of marbles set on the scoring board. Then he dumps one bowl of marbles in the maze, they all eventually come out the same place, but he sorts them as they emerge into 2 bowls. He then takes one bowl and places it up on his scoring board, which has interconnected circles with “10” or “20” assigned. Sometimes he just places the bowl on the board, other times he dumps the marbles into an existing bowl of marbles (I think). One of the bowls on the scoring board gets placed in the machine and re-run and re-sorted. Eventually there is a winner. It all seems kind of mystic.
It’s not a scoring board. The numbers indicate how many marbles will be raced in that round. The first 5 marbles that come out in the first 4 rounds all get placed into the middle bucket so there are 20 of them. Then they get raced, and the first 10 marbles that come out get put into the bowl labeled 10. Then those 10 marbles are raced, and the first one out wins.
