Mr. Bucket is a children's tabletop game built around a battery powered plastic bucket shaped like a smiling face, which periodically opens its mouth and spits colored balls out onto the floor. Each of two to four players is given a small shovel matching one of the ball colors, and races to scoop up every ball of that color and drop it back into the bucket before the bucket ejects more balls or an opponent finishes first. The winner is whichever player is the first to get all of their own colored balls inside the bucket at the same time. Designed by Wayne Kuna, the game was originally published by Milton Bradley in 1991, went out of print for a period, and was reissued in 2007 before Pressman Toy Corporation took over its publication in 2017. Aimed at children around four years old and up, a typical round lasts about ten minutes and is marketed chiefly as a hand eye coordination exercise disguised as a fast, silly party game.
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Mr. Bucket is a tabletop game and toy published by Milton Bradley and released in 1991.
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Mr. Bucket is a children's tabletop game built around a battery powered plastic bucket shaped like a smiling face, which periodically opens its mouth and spits colored balls out onto the floor. Each of two to four players is given a small shovel matching one of the ball colors, and races to scoop up every ball of that color and drop it back into the bucket before the bucket ejects more b
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