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Tip Tops

TIP TOPS by Bioviva is a fun game to spin across the Universe!


Number of players
From 2 to 5 players
Age
From 6 years
Duration
Less than 30 minutes
Author(s)
Roberto Fraga
Illustrator
Unknown
Editor
Bioviva

Description

Take a look at your color scheme and stack the right stars on the spinning tops as quickly as possible. You will have to be agile and strategic to be the first!

TIP TOPS is the reissue of TOPS released in 2002 by Ravensburger.

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How did I create the game?

In November 1996, I was trying on black plastic spinning tops in a Nature & Découvertes store in Rennes. I am surprised by their exceptional rotation and decide to buy 3.

Back at the FRAGALAB in Saint-Malo, I keep spinning them, completely hypnotized by their mad rush. The same evening I saw, in quick succession, a TV report on the Dervish Tourneurs (Turkish Dancers), then the dancers of Hula Hoop (Hoops).

I immediately got the idea of ​​making a game where you have to place colored discs on spinning tops, according to specific objectives. The prototype will be called GYRO and will be awarded at the Concours de Créateurs de Boulogne-Billancourt in 1997 (THE GOLDEN DICE).