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Spot-A-Shot
- Replay Value (1-10): 1
- Fun Factor (1-10): 1
- Worth Buying (1-10): 4
This game comes with a basketball court, two magnetized baskets (for decoration only), 10 magnetized basketballs, and two six-sided dice. Each dice is labeled with the values A, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3 on its six faces. The goal is to get your five balls from off the court into the basket, by following a path of sixteen spaces on the basketball court. To advance a ball to each space, you have to roll the needed number on a die: A for initial entry, 2 for a 2-point shot, 3 for a 3-point shot, and 1 for the last, seventeenth shot at the foul line.
The webpage for this game proudly proclaims that "as in all games played with dice, there are certain frequencies and law of averages to consider." Well, after my rough calculation of frequencies and law of averages, I calculate that it takes an average of 192 die rolls to win the game. Also, according to the site, games are close, so let's say that the average game has about 380 die rolls.
The inventor of the game has said in an interview that the game lasts about 30 minutes, so we're talking one die roll (and possibly turn) every 4.7 seconds, for those 30 minutes.
Fortunately, the game really can play that fast, because there's no strategy to it: always advance the most advanced ball if you can, unless it pushes it into
an existing ball, in which case advance some other ball. It only takes a
little bit more brainpower to watch a basketball game, I think. My favorite part of all the advertising jargon is the amount of pride that goes into the amazingly inventive idea of not numbering the dice from 1 to 6. Wow.
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