A sandy Caribbean street between painted houses. Marbles sit in a chalk ring, with two taws waiting below it.

Your next great shot.

Marbles the way they're played in the yard. Flick a glass taw, knock marbles out of the ring and keep your turn, in Caribbean Taw-and-Ring or European Ringer.

Coming soon to Android and iPhone

Two traditions

Two yards, two sets of rules

Choose the yard before every match. The flick is the same. What counts as a good shot is not.

Caribbean · Taw-and-Ring

Run the ring, or bust

Knock marbles out and every knockout keeps your turn. The other shooter is fair game too. Stop inside the ring, though, and you're a dead shooter: the turn is gone.

European · Ringer

Clear the cross, stay in

Marbles start in a cross on a painted court. Knock one out and keep your taw inside the ring to shoot again. The patient game, where every shot sets up the next.

Opponent: The computer, or a friend on the same phone
Computer: Rookie · Steady · Sharp
Marbles: 2 to 10 each
Who starts: Closest throw to the line

A Caribbean match on a phone: the ring ahead on sandy ground, the spin puck at bottom left and the camera dial at bottom right.

The flick

Pull back, pick your spin, let go

Drag back to aim and set power, then release. The spin puck chooses where you strike the taw. The same pull with the same spin gives the same shot every time, so what you practise is what you get.

DrawStrike low. The taw checks up after the hit instead of following the marble out.
FollowStrike high. The taw rolls on through the hit.
SideStrike left or right to change the angle the taw leaves the hit.

New to marbles? A guided lesson teaches the flick, practice costs nothing, and skill challenges are there when you want a push.

The collection

A taw worth keeping

Sixteen glass taws, from the free Original to swirls, pearls and marbled glass. Finish matches to earn coins and spend them on the ones you love. A finish changes how a taw looks, never how it rolls.