Epic Win: KerPlunk
Submitted by Matt S
KerPlunk was a lot like Jenga: take turns removing the sticks, but trying not to let the marbles fall. It actually predates Jenga by a decade and a half, though.
Now, does anyone know how to turn it into a drinking game?
Updated: Drinking Game Ideas
retrorter sez:
Here’s how to turn it into a drinking game: every time any marbles drop, you have a shot. Hopefully, the winner will stay sober.
Nekuyo replied:
Better idea. Every time you take a stick out and no marbles fall, everyone else has to take a shot. If marbles fall, you take a shot.
hee hee replied:
I think you should us ‘pick up sticks’ instead of the single color sticks that you see in this commercial (we lost more than a few of those and ended up using pick up sticks anyway) so you could do this game: each different colored stick is a different amount of alcohol (I don’t drink so I can be particularly vicious about drinking games), you pull out a green, a sip of beer, a yellow- 3 sips, a blue- 1 shot, orange 2 shots, RED 3 shots!
And dotdotdot asked:
Am I the only one disturbed by multiple childhood memories being used as drinking games by people on this site?
That’s a fair point.
Would it still be considered a “nostalgic” win if Toys R Us still sells KerPlunk?
If it’s a game you might well have played long ago. Monopoly can be a nostalgic win, even though it’s still sold.
Usually I do my KerPlunking in the toilet.
At least remember to have your unemployed parents wipe your ass when you’re done.
they still sell jenga and whoever makes the marbles drop first takes a shot
Am I the only one disturbed by multiple childhood memories being used as drinking games by people on this site?
No, you’re not the only one. Come on, guys. This is one of the few places on the Internet where we can happily discuss things we miss about our childhoods. Let’s not dirty it up with proclamations of how much alcohol you can ingest while playing this or that game. Honestly.
Lighten up. We are adults now, who do drink. You don’t have to read/reply to those types of posts if you aren’t interested. I’m sure there are enough people commenting without mentioning alcohol; you can discuss the memories with them.
Yes, because so many people made drinking games out of Captain Planet and Curly Shoelaces…
@ Meowth; You just made me choke on my tea. Brilliant reply!
Here’s how to turn it into a drinking game: every time any marbles drop, you have a shot. Hopefully, the winner will stay sober.
Better idea. Every time you take a stick out and no marbles fall, everyone else has to take a shot. If marbles fall, you take a shot.
I think you should us ‘pick up sticks’ instead of the single color sticks that you see in this commercial (we lost more than a few of those and ended up using pick up sticks anyway) so you could do this game: each different colored stick is a different amount of alcohol (I don’t drink so I can be particularly vicious about drinking games), you pull out a green, a sip of beer, a yellow- 3 sips, a blue- 1 shot, orange 2 shots, RED 3 shots!
The true joy in this game was being able to annoy siblings/parents who told you to ‘find something to play’. The final fall of marbles into plastic was always loud.
Oh yes i always ticked off my sister sometimes i would sit right outside her door and instead of trying to win i would do my best to loose fast and then run. I even remember what happened to it one day i wanted to catch grasshoppers and couldn’t find a jar and my Ker-plunk thing was see through and looked kinda like a jar so i used that. I think i was around 5 at the time since i distinctly remember taking it to Kindergarten with me to catch lady bugs in the large clover patch out back during recess.
I was SO bad at this game as a kid… but, like with any other game I sucked at, I absolutely HAD to play it (however, unlike Jenga, with which I recently won a Robin Williams DVD, I never got better).
Luckily for my parents, though, we never owned it. I only played against the other kids in after-school care.
Ta turn it into a drinkin’ game, ye jes’ have whoever dropsa’ marble take a shot.
O’ course, I’m tha only one in me crew who don’t drink. I’m the cap’n. Don’ drink an’ sail.
I think I might have a new hero, and I think it might just be you.
Just sayin’.
Kerplunk is an epic win all the way, but choosing a video from 1993 is an epic fail. The game dates to the late sixties. Add Trouble, Sorry and Mousetrap while you’re at it.
I was about to say that… the one I got to play with was my dad’s originaly. ^^
I loved this game. I got it when I was six as a Christmas present, and being a six-year old, marbles and sticks went everywhere. I liked how noisy it was…I don’t know why. Maybe because it gave my mom a headache…
My Primary School’s library had this game… loved it!
I like this game, still have my old set with all the parts and falling apart box!
I never had this game, but I remember playing a version that my stepmom rigged using a bowl and a wet paper towel, I don’t quite remember how the rest of it was made but it was a lot of fun!
I remember a similar thing, only the paper towel was dry and rubber-banded/ tied over the top of the bowl (tight like a drum), and you dropped wet marbles into it until it got wet enough that the paper towel gave way under the weight of the marbles.
me and my friend were playing this and i said kerplunk and he laughed so hrad he threw up KERPLUNK
I totally just played this game last month.
I win every time.
Please bring back the board game CROSS FIRE.
I never played KerPlunk, nor did I want to. But, I vividly remember this commercial only because I had the sweater the Asian girl is wearing. Yep, totally did, in all it’s polka-dotted neon goodness.
Don’t get on me for not being hardcore, but I have a newer one that’s radioactive purple and translucent. It is one of the best games ever that don’t require a console.
i remember this!
My family still plays this every now and again. It’s a fun game, actually!