The Last Man Standing game has golf tees, similarly shaped pegs or marbles placed in holes/spaces arranged in a triangular pattern. There are 15 holes and 14 game pieces leaving one space empty. A single player must jump each game piece, like checkers, until all but one remains. I was asked to make this game and recalled seeing a template for it using marbles. The template was sold as a set which includes Tic Tac Toe so I decided to make a dual game. Marbles tend to roll off the table and under the couch, just beyond your reach, getting lost and forgotten until your vacuum cleaner rather noisily finds them! The logical solution was to build a box to store the marbles with a lid that serves as the board. I routed a rail on opposing sides to hold marbles for playing Tic Tac Toe, and drilled two holes completely through the lid. It’s much easier to quickly drop the marbles into the box after each jump (or when finished playing either game) than chasing the rolling buggers all over the place. Since the templates are the same size I put a game on each side of the lid.
I made two boxes (one to keep) and now I don’t lose my marbles anymore.. but.. I still flip my lid!
I made two boxes (one to keep) and now I don’t lose my marbles anymore.. but.. I still flip my lid!



