I spotted your credit in the Endless WML, Mr. O, and attempted to couch my language to point any barbs only at Endless. I bought an opened copy for $9.99 and was glad I didn't pay more. I knew it was a copy of the Lowell, but didn't know they just put in a list of occupations, as compared to the clever printing of the occupations on the photo cards, where an occasional good shuffle would create interesting mixes of people and professions. Even updating the jobs and printing them on the photo cards wouldn't be that tough. There might be better ways, but the "pick a job at random" was a cheap way out. That said, there could be a couple of ways to attempt a low-budget "plinko" board - either make it the only plastic molded item in the game shrunk to scale and use small bearings or marbles to drop down from the top ( a potential hazard, however, around kids under 3)- or, print a replica like the other PIR game boards and make each of the bounce points the equivalent of a space. Think of a chinese checker board with the tiny black lines connecting each hole horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Either the roll of a die or the draw of a card could tell you how to move the marker from the top to the bottom of the Plinko board card with the money amounts...move down two spaces diagonal LEFT - move 2 spaces horizontal RIGHT - making moves until you hit a space on the bottom row and you land in the amount directly below it. Someone in a previous post mentioned playing it with cards. Whatever. And I'd wager a small sum that there will be very little or no internal supports in the packaging, in the "just dump the parts in the box" style of Password Jr. and Beat The Clock. Gotta make it cheap enough to make the corporate buyers at TRU and Wal-Mart happy...
