Can you use regular marbles for this run?
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Marbles come in many sizes; very big and very small ones won't work, but "normal" ones are fine.
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I suppose you can, but, overall, it is pretty flimsy and tends to fall apart. My grandson found it frustrating.
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Some of our regular marbles work fine. Some are ever so slightly too big. They will roll part way, then get stuck. Ours that are transparent with a small flame-like design in the middle would get stuck, but most of our solid colored ones worked nicely. These are old marbles from about 1980-ish. Overall, half of our old marbles worked.
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Yes you can. The corner edges go a specific way so it may confuse you at first, but they are universal tiles.
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Are different colors available? I need uniform colors in quantity for a demonstration, but I also need different colors to present the contrast. There is too much variety in mixed marble packages for my purpose.
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These are the smallest marbles I could find. I needed them for a race and didn't want them to get stuck. They are 1/2 inch
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My seven year old finds it hard to assemble. She loves the marble run concept but this one has kind of lightweight pieces that aren't easy for her to maneuver. Hope that helps.
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going out on Amazon, type in " glass marbles" or "ceramic marbles", figure out the diameter of the marbles needed as replacements first. Then you may decide if replacements are economically feasible for you.
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It depends on what size they are. We have some 'regular' marbles that are too large and get stuck. It seems the ones that work are the ones that are a little smaller than what I generally think of as 'regular' marbles. The set comes with about 8.
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The ones provided are not weirdly small. They are a common marble on the smaller side, if that makes sense. It comes with about 14 marbles, I think. It does not layout different track styles in a booklet. You don't really need one, the possibilities are endless. I promise you will be fine. I think you should buy the one box but know that it is way cooler with two. So if you see the love for it get ready to buy another box! We still love this toy.
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My kindergarten students could not figure out how to put it together, so the other teacher in the classroom helped out. She found it difficult to assemble and unsturdy as well. I think there are better marble runs available than this one.
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No it does not. I got this and the marbelous translucent marble run set together and the marbelous set came with 4 different run instructions. It is nice for the kids to have something to start with, but after a while they just do it on their own anyways.
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I haven't used it on marble only flagstone. I love the results. Also use on kitchen linoleum. Super.
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We gave the game to our grandson for Christmas two years ago and he and his brother and friends played with it so much, they wore it out that year. He asked us to get him the same thing for his Christmas last year...it is still running. As far as we can remember you can use real coins in it. We don't have the instructions here, but I seem to remember reading that in the instructions.
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You definitely can! You're just racing your own brain instead of others. You can play one-player versions on their website: http://www.setgame.com/set/daily_puzzle or through the NY Times website as well.
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Just build a pen that will corral the marbles. I usually use the longer pieces that are left over from a project and they will contain the marbles. Good question. John
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ABSOLUTELY NOT. they are all made up and cannot be played when others are using the mah jongg league's rules. I threw it in the garbage. it is useless = do not waste your money. yvette
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I don't know. I have the marble run set from Mindware. I can tell you this accessory set is high quality. It works wonderful with the set I have. I cannot not tell the difference between the two different sets.
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yes you can add up to 4 take n plays to the great quarry climb. my son has bendy track he adds between take n plays.