IDEAL | Tipping Point game: with electronic Tipping Point Machine and all new questions | Family TV Show Board Game | For 3+ Players or teams | Ages 10+

I bought it as a birthday present for my twin grandchildren. They told me it is fun. It is playful, easy to set up. One of the twins told me he won the gold during play. As long as it keeps them occupied and happy, grandma is also happy.

Despite mixed reviews, I bought this for Christmas and it’s been a hit. The machine mechanism works well and isn’t noisy as stated in one review. The actual game play is a bit flawed (no obvious advantage in ‘winning’ the first round and it would have been a simple job to make tiered difficulty questions for each category as per the actual tv show) but it’s fun. The questions are suitably pitched for families- some easy , some on the tricky side. Overall, a good buy.

After our first game we were pretty impressed. After a quick delivery, it took a reasonable amount of time to set up. The machine requires 2 AA batteries (alkaline preferred for top performance) and the canopy must be unscrewed beforehand. We found this to be no problem at all. When switched on, a circular mechanism rotates to move the red sliding tray (it really isn't loud at all). The counters are made of cardboard, but despite this material, they do slide and push each other very nicely. They may occasionally get stuck in the vertical wall but a little knock on the side of the machine will get them fling down again. Once all the counters are punched out of the cardboard tray and the machine is assembled, all that's left are stickers to decorate the machine. I didn't stick them on terribly well but they look pretty cool. I'd say a pretty well-designed machine, even though I found I had to make sure the vertical wall was pushed down fully to prevent the counters from sliding underneath it. There were also occasions where the tray stop moving due to the rotator getting caught, but it only took a few seconds to get it going again; just switch it off, remove the tray and give the blue shelf a little sweep (make sure there's no debris on it throughout for fun gameplay). A couple of blips but it works more than well enough of the time to keep the game flowing nicely. The game requires a least 3 players or teams and everyone takes it in turns being the question master. When playing by the rules correctly, everyone would have answered the same number of questions (unless in Round 2 players have passed a question to an opponent of if a 'Freeze' counter emerges from the machine, which is a loss of the next answering turn). This worked very well. Counters won by an individual player or team should be stacked in a separate pile to prevent them from being mixed with the draw pile or the three counters given in Round 1. There is no round where players have 30 seconds to answer questions, but you can easily slot that round in if you fancy a longer game. The player with the most counters goes on to try and eject the jackpot counter out of the machine. I found I needed buzzers for Round 1 (they're not included in the game, unfortunately). I use a multiple buzzer app om my tablet to add to the fun so that we know who buzzed first and that no one needs to slam their hands on the table. There are over 650 questions in total and are in blue and red piles (the red are optional choice and are used for the final round) I would've liked more to improve the mix, considering The Chase board game has over 1,000, and we had a slight overdose of fashion and soap questions... we didn't get enough Sports ones!! But that's just us and we still prefer random questions rather than just picking them. Each question has a category attached so you have an idea what might be good, and what might be impossible to answer, for your friends and family. There are 6 on each card. More questions and a few adjustments to the machine to improve reliability would be nice, but this is definitely a game for everyone to play. Recommended!

Had great fun with this game

It's a good idea, but in reality a little poor. Eventually swapped the counters for one pence pieces, which works a lot better. A draw back I would say as well is the fact the game does not come with any form of organiser, that you would normally find in a board game box. Instead, you're forced to just pop all the items inside the box and hope nothing falls on your head when lifting it off a shelf! I would also say this game is not suitable for children, as the questions are rather difficult!

Love this. One person reviewing it here (negatively) hasn't realised that the drop down part needs to be firmly pressed down into the platform, otherwise the tokens on the moving platform will slide under the vertical wall. Set it up right, and it works brilliant. Lots of fun.

I have a habit of buying something and then the price instantly drops, grrr! My Mum and Dad love watching this on TV so I bought this as part of Dad's birthday pressies for a bit of fun. It seemed to work better with four teams as it says in the instructions. When one of the teenagers got a bit bored she decided to be quizmaster and read the questions - that worked really well. I found when I put the little cardboard coins in they occasionally got stuck. (We added a new word to the list of "wedgie" LOL) We easily solved this problem by replacing the cardboard coins with pennies. I don't watch the Tipping Point program so I don't know why you would need grey tokens and black tokens - if this is a problem with using pennies you could always put a spot of coloured nail varnish on them or something. It's much more satisfying with real money! We had a lot of fun playing it and I would buy it again.

5***** for sure!!! We didn’t expect such success with this present from Santa! We bought this game as our son loved watching and playing tipping point with his coins. He opened the wrapping and almost started crying sayin The best present ever! So sweet! Since then I had my breakfast, dessert and watch an hour tv show and he is still playing rejecting to go outside and try riding his new scooter and gocart. The game itself looks much better than on the picture. The shelf moves forward and back. It has double counter, mistery and, of course, jackpot counter. I would definitely recommend this fun for kids who like the show.

Bought this for my son, who is an avid fan of the show. He loves playing with it, pretending to win real money :)

Very nice as shown and super fun

Our Grand children (aged 6 to 8) loved playing this game with us. We changed the rules slightly and wrote some of our own questions as well as the ones that come with it to make it easier for everyone to play. The game itself works very well, not as large as you might expect but still lots of fun. Great buy.

Very small.

Our family loved playing this.