Mainstreet Classics 4-in-1 Wooden Game Set

I purchased the shuffleboard for my 2 grandson's. They love it. Great price and was impressed with the construction of the item.

First the negative, one length wise side of the frame was loose in the middle and I have to get some wood glue to set it. Otherwise I am very pleased with this product. The ring-toss/horse shoe pole was actually of a slightly better quality than pictured that also had a black base included, to which I was obviously pleased. I added a separate miniature bowling game I purchased separately into the mix and it is a lot of fun to play that or the shuffle board game that came included. I can't wait to introduce this at a house party with friends sometime, it should be pretty fun.

This is a game set I really really wanted to like. It reminds me of my childhood when I would go to an elderly neighbor's house. He had a bowling table. He'd set up ten pins at one end and then use an angled wooden ramp to send a ball bearing downward toward the pins. Had a lot of fun playing that game. This, unfortunately, is not that game. Yes, you do get four games. The problem is, two of them don't belong. You get this rather large varnished table in which you expect to glide things over its surface. When you play horseshoes and ring toss you're throwing an object over the table. In other words, you don't need a table at all! I've seen home sets of horseshoes and ring toss. They looked fun. Playing them on this table just makes no sense, especially since the hard plastic just bounces right off the table. So really, you're just getting two games that actually use the table, football and shuffleboard. The football game reminds me of my high school study halls back in the 80s when we'd waste time pushing a triangular piece of paper back and forth across a desk. It's not something anyone loved to play. We did it to kill time. Yes, it's all way cooler here with the plastic uprights and a football field painted surface. Just can't imagine wanting to play it. The glowing star here is shuffleboard. Unfortunately, the shuffleboard side of my board had a nickel sized ding in the surface. Hit that spot and the piece veers to the left or right. Can't say I saw the problems mentioned by another reviewer regarding flush corners etc. My board felt solid and sturdy. For me it was the playing surface. I suppose I could sand the spot down/fill as necessary. Won't look pretty, but it would fix the board. I'm mostly just bummed that they put all this effort into creating a double sided board. Varnished it, painted lines, made it look nice . . . and then added two games that don't even use the functionality of the board. The game that belongs here is the one I played as a kid: bowling. I hate dumping on a product like this. I grew up playing these types of games. We need more activities like this in our lives given how video games and cell phones cause us to be detached from those around us, especially our very own families. You have to ask yourself what kind of gamer are you or what kind of games does your family like to play? I think this product might be just fine for some. It didn't really do it for me, however, with one one game I liked.

When I was in high school, a friend and I spent an afternoon playing "football" with a piece of paper folded into a triangle. That simple piece of paper, a table, and our hands in the shape of field goal posts were all we needed to pass an enjoyable afternoon while we waited for the rain to clear. This set codifies that game, providing a full football field, goal posts, and even pre-folded "footballs." Flip the field over, and you have shuffleboard. (Shuffleboard offers another trip down memory lane for people who had those slot hockey games with pucks that had silver ball bearings inside the cylindrical pucks--those same things here are used for shuffleboard.) Use poles instead of goalposts, and you can play horseshoes. Obviously, my review is tinged by nostalgia, but I there's a little more here. It turns out a certain teenage boy, albeit somewhat skeptical at first, found the football game to be tremendous fun. (There are rules included, but we did not consult them. Only later did I look at the rules and find out that the company that produced this anticipated the make-your-own-rules spirit and included a wide variety of rules, including, amazingly, the rules we played by. Well, almost. We simply set up sliding scales for the length of the field goal and allowed for the possibility of 100-yard field goals.) I cannot say that I found the ring toss or the horseshoe games all that interesting, especially the latter. Something about relatively lightweight horseshoes just felt off. But the football and surprisingly the shuffleboard were lots of fun.

This is actually a difficult review to write. This is fun and offers good value. The game rules are a little obscure, and sometimes just lame.....not a problem, we made up our own. Horseshoe toss is the only game that I would toss out (no pun intended). The horseshoes are plastic and too light and easily bounce off and out when another horseshoe lands in the ring. Ring toss is fun, but should have more rings. Football is interesting, and once you get a set of rules together, it is enjoyable. The best, by far, is shuffleboard! Now that is really fun. I played with my kids for quite some time, and with different variations. Unfortunately, the construction is poor. The corners are not flush, with one corner being open by about 3 mm. (.25 inch). This is almost 4 feet long and I somewhat heavy. The problem with that is if you try to pick it up from the middle of the long side you will pull it away from the board and possibly break it....I know, it happened to me. Another negative: there is no way to store all of the parts/pieces. I had to put them in a large ziploc bag. There should be one attached to that open corner or something. Also, the finish had a lot of little "things" sticking up off the surface of the board, it felt like some kind of adhesive. Really, this is 3.5 stars, and while I rarely round up, the Main Stree Classic shuffleboard game deserves a bump. I think you get a lot for your money, especially when you compare this with other games. Just keep in mind that it is big, so stotage may be a problem for some people. I will update if the material doesn't hold up, but so far it is fun for the whole family.

My kids loved the shuffleboard game. They played it for a long time and it was challenging for all ages. The football was a little less interesting but it was similiar to playing "football" at a pizza restaurant when waiting for your pizza The horseshoe and ring toss games were not fun because the plastic parts were too cheap and couldn't really be thrown accurately. If you love the old school shuffleboard, it is a worthwhile purchase but this should really be billed as a two game set, not 4 game. A word of warning - this a a huge, heavy item and belongs in a game room and perhaps stored under a bed. However, the packaging survived shipping without any problem and the board arrived intact.

This set is designed for four different games: shuffleboard on one side, and horseshoes, ring toss, and tabletop football on the other side. The playing surface is a large wooden board that can be flipped over depending on what game you decide to play. The ring toss and football games were an amusing diversion, but I didn't care much for horseshoes because the plastic horseshoes just felt light and flimsy. Horseshoes, to my mind, should feel heavy and solid. That said, we really did enjoy the shuffleboard game on the other side. I had never really played shuffleboard before, but once I got into it, I had a fun time.

So this product sounded appealing to me just based upon just the Flip Football alone. Who doesn't have fond memories of finger football as a kid. But in reality I found while the 4-in-1 games are decent enough on this board - not enough extra fun for me to justify the $40 and the requirement to find a storage space for a big board and a bunch of loose pieces (which I put in a ziplock bag). And to be honest finger football is just as fun on a kitchen table. The mini shuffleboard is probably second best but still way funner at grandma's retirement community. The horseshoes and ringtoss are weak in my opinion - tiny plastic horseshoes flight is too inconsistent - I'll stick with real horseshoes and ringtoss in the backyard (and sets are pretty cheap on amazon). So overall - 3 stars from me for price/value. I guess if you live in an apartment with no outside space or you are snowed in then this may be the best option you've got. But if you've got outside space I would stick to the real thing.