The overall idea and the actual main board you see seems good! However, the back legs are very weak and cause the main board to fall often. We only played THREE games and ended up with FIVE of the eight bags broken and losing sand everywhere! Note that I'm talking about the cheap plastic bags of sand inside the cloth outside bags. As for the lighting, one of the bag lights stopped working on the VERY FIRST throw! Plus, for some reason, everything is divided by blue and green except for the ring lights which were both blue…
All of that said (which is important since that IS what you're paying for!), I'm trying to salvage the game. I still need to design either better back legs or supports to the existing legs, but I had an idea which turned out to make the bags even better than they were originally: I bought a 100-pack of 2"x3" plastic zip-lock bags, then two bags of navy beans. I found one zip-lock held 100 beans perfectly, so I weighed those out and made four zip-lock bags each for all of the cloth bags (32 total, then made some spares). The weight is good and the beans make them feel so much better in your hand! A pain to make, but I think we'll get a good bit more use out the game and wanted to offer the solution as an idea for others.
I think making the base more solid and offering quality bags that you simply have to carry in a separate bag would have been a better approach.
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