We purchased this game for my son's birthday. Wish I would have read the reviews on here first. We all had quite a bit of fun with the game, but it stopped working after about 1/2 hour of play. I called the manufacturer the next day and they offered to send out a replacement. The person I spoke to on the phone said that I was the first one to call in with this problem. The second one arrived today... Well, my 4 year old was playing with it at the kitchen table while I was cooking supper. It stopped working! UNBELIEVABLE!! Well, my son is now very upset, asking if I still love him, etc. He thinks he broke this thing twice. He was hitting it with the mallet... but isn't that the whole idea? It did not get dropped, thrown or anything like that. I guess we will be returning it and getting a different toy. Too bad, it was pretty fun while it lasted.