I ordered the Sarcastic Ball as a little joke to go with my gypsy/fortune teller Halloween costume. I had a magic 8 ball when I was a kid, so I figured this would be the same, only sarcastic, right? You would think so, but no, apparently not. The liquid inside the ball is sludgy. It's too thick for the message die inside the ball to rotate and come to the surface. In the ball I received, the message never came completely up to the surface of the window, and the liquid is so dark, that it has to be on the window or you can't read it. So, after 10 minutes of shaking the ball and hoping it would begin to get better, I gave up. It's being returned. Also, as a side note, the construction was crappy. The ball has a seam around the middle that was assembled badly and had some glue reside on it. It was just very cheaply and poorly made.