Fillable watermelon balls, water skip balls and pool footballs — made by us, shipped from stock.

Deck notes

Everything we get asked at the side of a pool, written down. Three guides: how the game works, how to fill the ball properly, and what to play at which age.

Three-step diagram: toss the ball in, pass it underwater, score on the far wall

The underwater pool ball game, start to finish

This is the game we get asked about most. It takes one ball, a swimming pool and about four minutes of setup. Below is how we play it, plus the variations that groups inv…

Fill and inflate in seconds: attach the hose adapter, fill with water, add a few pumps of air

Filling, inflating and draining

The whole process takes under a minute once you have done it once. The part worth getting right is the air, because that is what decides how the ball plays.…

Two swimmers chasing the ball as it rises toward the surface

Pool games by age, from paddling to competitive

A pool full of mixed ages is a scheduling problem. These are the games that work at each end of the range, and the two or three that work for everyone at once.…