How much fun can you have with 94 pompoms and a plastic pint glass?
Written by David Aspall - Jul 08 2022
At its core that's all the Fuzzies is, yet it is so much more! What seems a simple Jenga clone quickly evolves into a sleek and hilarious dexterity game. This is the kind of game that gets pulled out at a party and quickly attracts the whole room, be they spectators or Fuzzy wrangling competitors.
Set up is simple, Fuzzies in the cup, squidge them down a few times then flip the whole thing over and gently remove the cup. Now stands before you a tower of Fuzzy fun. A deck of cards slots out from the games base, each one depicting a different coloured Fuzzy. This card is now your mission. Retrieve a Fuzzy of that colour (with either your fingers or the included tweezers) and place it anywhere on the tower higher than where you took it from, sides or top, anything goes.
But soon disaster shall strike when retrieving your Fuzzy. Did another Fuzzy fall and land upon the table? Well, first off, shame on you! They trusted you! Secondly, carry on placing your original Fuzzy, thirdly, comes the hilarity. Take as many cards as dropped Fuzzies and flip them over. Each one will will have a technique you must adopt on your next go, and they stack. So if you have a bad go you may end up playing as a one eyed, left handed, elephant armed Fuzzy wrangler.
That simple mechanic is what elevates this game in my opinion. With those additions of how to remove your next Fuzzy this game becomes playable in any situation. I played with my 4 year old daughter and her friends and they loved it. I played with my Wife and a bottle of wine and we loved it. I took it to the pub with some mates and although we lost a Fuzzy to a beery death, everyone there loved it.
The game continues until 10 or more Fuzzies fall, the instructions tell you 'You'll know it when you see it' and they're not wrong! The person who toppled the tower loses. But you'll hardly care as you'll be setting up for another game immediately.
The only downside with this game is that the Fuzzies fall on the floor often and are very good at picking up hairs and fluff. Overall we loved it and I know it will come out on many occasions.