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Get to Know About Avalanche
I remember the first time I set up Avalanche on the kitchen table—those smooth plastic marbles and bright little levers just begged to be flicked. It looked simple at first: each player has their own mountainside grid, and marbles are piled at the top. The goal was straightforward, but once you started pulling those levers and sending marbles cascading down, it turned into a riot of clinks and laughs.
The real fun is in the timing. On your turn, you pick a lever on your mountain wall, which releases a marble (or a handful) down into the slots below. As those marbles shift, sometimes they trigger far more than you expected, sending a wave of marbles toward your opponents. If you’ve got a full row on your side when things spill over, you end up getting stuck with marbles you really don’t want. It’s almost like a race—keep your side clear while watching rival mountains collapse in glorious slow motion.
I’ve found that Avalanche is the perfect little tension-builder for family game nights or casual hangouts. It’s quick to learn, but every flip of the lever can change the score in an instant, which keeps everyone leaning forward. No deep strategy or complex rules—just pure, unpredictable marble mayhem. And whoever’s left with the fewest marbles at the end gets to bask in victory, at least until someone dares them to play again.