From the box: "EXCITING ACTION - INDOORS OR OUT! magic bucket pops out a shower of balls - players scramble to retrieve them." A plastic bucket about 8" high & 8" in diameter with a spring-loaded platform is filled with plastic colored balls. A knob is turned, releasing a timer which, in due course, activates the platform. The plastic balls are propelled in all directions. Players attempt to be the first to retrieve all balls of their chosen color one-at-a-time and place them in their correspondingly colored plastic container tube. Game gets very hectic.