Ryan O'Rourke
United States
Tobyhanna
Pennsylvania
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I have Sac Noir. This looks like it has a few sac noir pieces on a wood platter, balanced on something.
Any suggestions for making my own Bamboleo with my sac Noir pieces? Can I have some dimensions on the platter, and is it just a piece of wood?
What exactly is holding the platter up?
Thanks,
Ryan
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mrbass
United States
Las Vegas
Nevada
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I own sac noir too but I also own Topple and Bamboleo just looks like a wooden version of the balancing act. I honestly hate gameplay of Topple. Good question though it sure appears it uses similiar pieces.
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Jonathan Takagi
United States
San Marcos
California
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I guess you could make your own. It's just a circular board, balanced on a cork ball. The cork ball sits in a wood piece that you could probably make yourself too. But yeah, all of the Bamboleo pieces are (I think) included in Sac Noir.
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Ryan O'Rourke
United States
Tobyhanna
Pennsylvania
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Do the specific pieces matter? Looks like any of the medium to small sac noir pieces will work.
How tall is the wooden "stand" piece? about 6"? Does it have a pointy tip or rounded? What shape is the cork? How does it rest on the stand piece? Does the platter then just rest on the cork? How much surface area of the cork does the platter rest on?
Somebody else asked a question about the difference between the pizza platter and the butterfly platter. Do the shapes make a difference in how the pieces balance?
Thanks,
Ryan
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Jonathan Takagi
United States
San Marcos
California
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facesnorth wrote: Do the specific pieces matter? Looks like any of the medium to small sac noir pieces will work.
I don't know, I've never played it with other pieces, but it doesn't seem like it would matter too much. If you like, I think there's a picture around here with an inventory of the pieces as well as their respective weights (for scoring purposes, I assume.
facesnorth wrote:
How tall is the wooden "stand" piece? about 6"? Does it have a pointy tip or rounded? What shape is the cork? How does it rest on the stand piece? Does the platter then just rest on the cork? How much surface area of the cork does the platter rest on?
It's about 6 1/2" tall, but the tip is hollowed out, so that the spherical cork ball can sit in it. The platter then has to be balanced on the cork ball, which can be tricky at first. I don't know about surface area, but it isn't very much.
facesnorth wrote:
Somebody else asked a question about the difference between the pizza platter and the butterfly platter. Do the shapes make a difference in how the pieces balance?
That was me, and no one ever responded. It seems like most copies are the pizza edition. The other one is interesting because it seems like there could be some more precarious places for the pieces to be located with a board of that shape.
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Alex Eaton-Salners
United States
San Diego
California
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I believe the first edition was the Kleebat, which came with 2 different sized cork balls. The edition currently sold is Pizza, which only has one cork ball. Also, like Bausack/Sac Noir the pieces in Bamboleo are semi-random.
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mrbass
United States
Las Vegas
Nevada
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So the cork ball is completely round and the base (the black pole sticking up) has is concaved to hold the cork ball correct?
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Paul Dale
Australia
Moggill
Queensland
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You are only as old as you feel. How old is soft and squishy?
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We tried using a set of Bausack pieces with the Bamboleo disc and support and it didn't work out terribly well. Too many too heavy pieces.
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Alex Eaton-Salners
United States
San Diego
California
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mrbass wrote: So the cork ball is completely round and the base (the black pole sticking up) has is concaved to hold the cork ball correct?
Correct.
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Ryan O'Rourke
United States
Tobyhanna
Pennsylvania
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I wonder why? Couldn't you have only used the smaller pieces, as pictured in the images? Are they not the same exact pieces cut and distributed by the same company (Zoch)?
Ryan
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Antonio Chavez
United States
Laredo
Texas
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Wouldn't it be a lot easier to buy Bamboleo and then use the pieces to also play Bausack?
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Dave Pasquantonio
United States
Millis
Massachusetts
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My kids (ages 6 and 4) are playing Bamboleo right now -- I'm thinking of dragging out all of my Carcassonne meeples and balancing them on the board instead of using the Bamboleo pieces.
I also think that the game would work better for little kids by using a bunch of much smaller wooden pieces -- lord knows I have enough tiny scraps of wood in this house, or I could just cut up a bunch of medium sized dowels and 1x1 strips and use those.
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James Sinden
United Kingdom
Egham
Surrey
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I think Bausack and Bamboleo both have the nice concept that the pieces in the box only really provide a starting point. You can add anything you like to the mix; meeples, plastic toys, toothbrush etc... anything so long as it can have a 'set' position. Owning both I'm always on the looking for something to add to the box that would work.
I've not weighed any but I think the standard Bausack pieces are heavier than Bamboleo... but could be wrong.
Ps. and I still can't work out how the yellow pizza balances at all on the cork ball... it just seems fundamentally wrong to me!
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