A multiplayer game includes a mobile playing environment defining a water reservoir and a path leading down into the reservoir, a reservoir filling container defining a volume configured to hold a quantity of water for a player to pour into the reservoir to increase a level of water within the reservoir and cause the water level to rise along the path, player tokens movable to and between various positions along the path, and a movement instructor manipulable by a player to generate an unselected movement instruction from a limited set of possible instructions including moving a token downward along the path and adding water to the reservoir.

A board game apparatus has a dented platform, a transparent guiding tube, and an applicator. The dented platform has a plurality of dents. The dents are adapted to receive corresponding game pieces. And each dent is adapted to accommodate a single game piece. The transparent guiding tube and the applicator are adapted for placing the game pieces into desirable dents, or for shifting the position of a game piece between dents.