I’m not sure how I’ve lived 6 decades without ever hearing of this game.🤪 I bought it for my grandson yesterday and we played it tonight. It’s a GREAT game and we will be playing often. Your directions are CLEAR & wonderful! I was running out of patience reading the tiny print on the supplied directions. Your video simplified matters. Thanks!
I created this game while floating in my bathtub, looking at a Fieldcrest shower curtain, with silver and copper curve and straight members, that inspired the game. Ideas ca come from anywhere.
This used to be my favorite game when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, the pipe materials are copper and lead (crazy that we used to use lead pipes, I know).
"The only plumbing-themed game that I have". Well, when it comes to plumbing-themed games, one may be enough. Great review by the way, and yes I can see how it can be more challenging than it looks on the surface. I will definitely get it if I come across it.
+Board Game Museum, nice review, thumbs up. The game's 70s origin shows as now a days plumbers use PVC/ABS/etc plastic piping (a modern game version would be interesting). Back then it was more labor intensive copper or iron/steel piping, while lead piping drove the Ancient Romans crazy. Believe the game rules refer to non-leaky copper piping and leaky lead piping rather than bronze (which is about 90% copper, and so similar looking to copper). In your sample game your opponent could cap off your pipe with a leaky cap (rotate the cap card 180 degrees), thereby causing an extra problem, 2 problems, a leak to fix, and a wrong direction. As well your opponent could drop the leaking lead pipe on top of your pipe instead of extending your pipe length for you. All in all a fun game without the traditional playing board games had back then.
+Board Game Museum, the rules state that leaky pipes can be played on top of an opponent's last card in a pipeline (our house rule was any lead pipe in an opponent's pipeline was game, like in real life any lead pipe can leak not just the last one) OR extend that pipeline. You extended the pipeline while creating a leak, a valid move, but a better move would have been to just create a leak on the last pipe and not help your opponent by extending their pipeline. As mentioned in my last post, turning the cap card 180 degrees would cap the opponent's pipeline with a leaky cap that had to be fixed, and send it in a the wrong direction, 2 problems with 1 card. The rules only allow good pipe/caps to be placed by you on your own pipeline, and only leaky pipes/caps to be placed by you on your opponent's pipeline.
+Board Game Museum, you know in just a few short weeks or at most a few months you'll hit a 1000 subscribers. That's a milestone. You're at 812 as of right now, January 18 2017. Might want to plan a special 1000 sub video to mark the occasion which will creep up on you faster than you think. Just a suggestion.
+Board Game Museum, you can search UA-cam for "1000 subs" "board games" etc to see what others have done. Basically, thank your subs for this great milestone, optional name some of your regular dialogers, and then just summarize your journey, from account creation, and it's evolution into your various video series, then end with an interesting montage from each series of videos, just music soundtrack, no original dialog. You could copy the montage and post it again but on it's own as a channel ad as well. My last post was 12 hours ago, and you've gained 3 more subs, or about 5 new subs a day, and so in about a month you'll hit 1000. You're also at 346111 views, maybe a special video is in order when you hit a half million views? Great channel. Kudos. Keep up the great work.
+Board Game Museum, it's been 3 weeks (today is February 9th), and you've gained 47 subs, or about 15 per week. At that rate you'll hit 1000 total in May. For some reason your video views DROPPED about 9000 from 345111 to 335346. Weird. Then again UA-cam has been known for messing with the stats, Unsubscribing subs etc. Please do consider making a special 1000 sub video and a half million view video.
Picked this beauty up at a Thrift store today. The box is trashed, but all the components are fine(even all the little wrenches are accounted for, which was very surprising). The pipe art on the cards is unnecessarily good. The gameplay itself reminds me of a game called Bombs Away that came along much later.
I just found a deck of these cards in my attic, but I remember my wrenches (which are now lost unfortunately) were made of paper just like the cards. Also the back of the cards has a different design. Is my edition different?
As avid players of Waterworks, we modified the rules and created variations of play using what we termed as Advanced Rules, Power Rules, Advanced Power Rules, and a theoretical 3-D set of Super Advanced Power Rules. These included: spouts played on a separate turn; all cards dealt; players may leak themselves (usually after 6 beers); looping a player; adding to an unused cap; spout used as a leak.
5:13 - A good pipe cannot be played on an opponents pipe line for any reason. The correct action would have been to use the leaky side of the cap on the opponent, not the good side.
Blessings in an abundance of the faith. I salute you. 😘🙏Grace and peace be unto you and to this place. Thank you. God bless you. 😊Will you believe and receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal saviour??? I do. 😊
I’m not sure how I’ve lived 6 decades without ever hearing of this game.🤪 I bought it for my grandson yesterday and we played it tonight. It’s a GREAT game and we will be playing often. Your directions are CLEAR & wonderful! I was running out of patience reading the tiny print on the supplied directions. Your video simplified matters. Thanks!
Oh you're very welcome! I love some of those older games. Thanks so much for sharing
I see this game all the time and always wondered what it was about. Thanks for the review Norm!
Every time I pick up a random game from a thrift store I come here. It’s always here. Thanks!
I created this game while floating in my bathtub, looking at a Fieldcrest shower curtain, with silver and copper curve and straight members, that inspired the game. Ideas ca come from anywhere.
If this is really Mattiene, I'd love a copy of Miss America! It's pretty much impossible to find!
This used to be my favorite game when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, the pipe materials are copper and lead (crazy that we used to use lead pipes, I know).
"The only plumbing-themed game that I have". Well, when it comes to plumbing-themed games, one may be enough. Great review by the way, and yes I can see how it can be more challenging than it looks on the surface. I will definitely get it if I come across it.
My fave childhood game. I still have 2 copies.
+Board Game Museum, nice review, thumbs up. The game's 70s origin shows as now a days plumbers use PVC/ABS/etc plastic piping (a modern game version would be interesting). Back then it was more labor intensive copper or iron/steel piping, while lead piping drove the Ancient Romans crazy. Believe the game rules refer to non-leaky copper piping and leaky lead piping rather than bronze (which is about 90% copper, and so similar looking to copper). In your sample game your opponent could cap off your pipe with a leaky cap (rotate the cap card 180 degrees), thereby causing an extra problem, 2 problems, a leak to fix, and a wrong direction. As well your opponent could drop the leaking lead pipe on top of your pipe instead of extending your pipe length for you. All in all a fun game without the traditional playing board games had back then.
+Board Game Museum, the rules state that leaky pipes can be played on top of an opponent's last card in a pipeline (our house rule was any lead pipe in an opponent's pipeline was game, like in real life any lead pipe can leak not just the last one) OR extend that pipeline. You extended the pipeline while creating a leak, a valid move, but a better move would have been to just create a leak on the last pipe and not help your opponent by extending their pipeline. As mentioned in my last post, turning the cap card 180 degrees would cap the opponent's pipeline with a leaky cap that had to be fixed, and send it in a the wrong direction, 2 problems with 1 card. The rules only allow good pipe/caps to be placed by you on your own pipeline, and only leaky pipes/caps to be placed by you on your opponent's pipeline.
+Board Game Museum, you know in just a few short weeks or at most a few months you'll hit a 1000 subscribers. That's a milestone. You're at 812 as of right now, January 18 2017. Might want to plan a special 1000 sub video to mark the occasion which will creep up on you faster than you think. Just a suggestion.
+Board Game Museum, you can search UA-cam for "1000 subs" "board games" etc to see what others have done. Basically, thank your subs for this great milestone, optional name some of your regular dialogers, and then just summarize your journey, from account creation, and it's evolution into your various video series, then end with an interesting montage from each series of videos, just music soundtrack, no original dialog. You could copy the montage and post it again but on it's own as a channel ad as well. My last post was 12 hours ago, and you've gained 3 more subs, or about 5 new subs a day, and so in about a month you'll hit 1000. You're also at 346111 views, maybe a special video is in order when you hit a half million views? Great channel. Kudos. Keep up the great work.
+Board Game Museum, it's been 3 weeks (today is February 9th), and you've gained 47 subs, or about 15 per week. At that rate you'll hit 1000 total in May. For some reason your video views DROPPED about 9000 from 345111 to 335346. Weird. Then again UA-cam has been known for messing with the stats, Unsubscribing subs etc. Please do consider making a special 1000 sub video and a half million view video.
Picked this beauty up at a Thrift store today. The box is trashed, but all the components are fine(even all the little wrenches are accounted for, which was very surprising). The pipe art on the cards is unnecessarily good. The gameplay itself reminds me of a game called Bombs Away that came along much later.
Oh yes I love this game. It's a lot of fun
This looks like a fun game gonna try it sometime
nice review of how to play, i have it but have to play
Created by Mattiene Moustakas in 1972, Denton Texas
interesting card game. I cant help but think wha tother theme could be made out of that idea. nice star wars sweatshirt MTFBWY
I just found a deck of these cards in my attic, but I remember my wrenches (which are now lost unfortunately) were made of paper just like the cards. Also the back of the cards has a different design. Is my edition different?
Probably. They made a few versions if I remember
As avid players of Waterworks, we modified the rules and created variations of play using what we termed as Advanced Rules, Power Rules, Advanced Power Rules, and a theoretical 3-D set of Super Advanced Power Rules. These included: spouts played on a separate turn; all cards dealt; players may leak themselves (usually after 6 beers); looping a player; adding to an unused cap; spout used as a leak.
Have you posted this to Board Game Geek? They have a place to put variants. Give others a chance to try your take. I’d try.
5:13 - A good pipe cannot be played on an opponents pipe line for any reason. The correct action would have been to use the leaky side of the cap on the opponent, not the good side.
That's the same version I got , complete, for free at a thrift store with a store coupon. Tough to beat that price.
Just found for 99cents
Blessings in an abundance of the faith. I salute you. 😘🙏Grace and peace be unto you and to this place. Thank you. God bless you. 😊Will you believe and receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal saviour??? I do. 😊