Not at all on my first playthrough, I happened to knock it down at a really unfortunate angle. On my second playthrough I was a bit more careful and the game went much more smoothly!
I should probably have an option to restart somehow and made restarting the game after you've played it once skip the opening dialog. I'm glad you had fun with it regardless though. I hope knocking over the bowl was as much fun as getting it right, because that what I was going for :)
