Pickleball Blast Review

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We review Pickleball Blast, a quick playing dexterity game published by Moose Toys. Pickleball Blast is a two player take on the Loopin Louie dexterity game and is surprisingly fun.

The first time I played Pickleball was back in high school. It was fun but didn’t really capture my interest. I felt like I was playing tennis with a ping pong ball. After graduating, the game faded from my memory. Yet, apparently, pickleball has made a massive resurgence. I keep hearing about people playing this sport all the time now. An indoor court has even opened up near me in an old Office Max building. Who knew this would be the newest craze?

What does that have to do with tabletop gaming? Today, we are going to take a peek at Pickleball Blast. A quick-playing dexterity game published by Moose Games.

Not surprisingly, playing Pickleball Blast is relatively easy. The game consists of a freely rotating pickle attached to a pole with a counterweight. Its pivot point is in the center of the “net.” On either side of the board are three “pickle jars” with rotating lids. Your goal is to use the paddle flappers to knock the pickle back to your opponent’s side. If you can hit one of the pickle jars, it will (usually) spin over revealing a color. If you manage to turn 2 out of the 3 jars on your opponent’s side to their color side, you score the point.

The game is then reset and players go another round. The first player to four points is the winner.

At first, I was hesitant to review Pickleball Blast. We get offerings from mass-market publishers all the time, and for the most part, they don’t really resonate with any of us. But after watching a video on how the game is played, I figured the game was probably stupid enough to be fun.

And that was a pretty spot-on assumption. Once I put the game together, it ended up being the kind of silly fun that you’d expect from just a casual glance at the box. You are whacking a pickle (add that to the list of things I never thought I’d say in a