KerPlunk

KerPlunk is a children's game invented by Eddy Goldfarb with Rene Soriano and first marketed by the Ideal Toy Company in 1967.

The base contains four separate numbered trays; the straws are passed through holes in the middle of the tube to form a lattice.

Players take turns removing a single straw from the tube while trying to minimize the number of marbles that fall through the web and into their trays.

The current UK version – formerly New KerPlunk, although this was changed upon rebranding from Milton Bradley to Hasbro Gaming — uses a red and green colour scheme, with an additional yellow marble dubbed "the golden ball", which can be used for either adding or subtracting five balls from a player's total, or ignored.

The rules are the same, except the marbles that come with the game are colored and, after falling, move around a spiral pathway similar to that of a gumball machine.