This is a straightforward 1–100 racing game, at least as present in Love's version, which features "adapted" rules (his term, unexplained). Players roll and move as expected, picking up 1 token if they are the first to reach or pass each of the 18 holes. (It is not clear if these successful players are supposed to pause at each hole and allow others to...
Based on the popular 1970's UK TV show, this game gave families the chance to audition and star in their own show in the comfort of their own home! The aim of the game was to get your act through an audition for the "New Faces" TV show, and then move on to the Star Circuit. The winner is the first player to accumulate £20,000, after safely negotiating all...
Join the New Fantastic Four in their battle with Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom has captured Herbie the Robot and is holding him prisoner in his Research Lab. Make your way through Doctor Doom's domain, rescue Herbie, and be the first to bring him safely home. Be the first player to reach "Mission Complete" to win the game. The game is for Ages 7 - 12. Contents...
A game where the players follow different orbis with the aim to reach the centre of the board. Players all contribute a number of counters to the Pool before the game starts Movement is by the roll of one die. When you land on certain spaces you will probably be told to add or take some counters from the Pool The intention was that this game would educate...
Following one of three trade routes, use a steamship to deliver British goods to colonial ports while picking up goods from the colonies to bring back to London. As each player arrives back in London they total the points earned for the goods picked up during the voyage (amount for each type of good varies) and they deduct 2 points for each of the nine...
Busy Bees is a children's game played on a honeycombed (hex) board with flowers on each outer edge. Each players starts with a bee in the center position and then rolls two dice. The hex space has numbers at the outer edge and the player must move through a line that matches the number thrown on on of the dice. This is then repeated for the number shown on...
The game uses a squared board for play, and involves moving a square of card around the board. Holes punched into the square reveal the designs on the squares of the board below. The idea is to use the card square to reveal coins (which are then matched by examples from the pot) with the intention of arriving at pre-determined sums. The winner is the...
A race game of Moral Improvement. From No 1 Turnpike Gate to No 66, "Virtue is its Own Reward"! It was marketed as a morality game designed to lead children to admire and adopt the virtues of Obedience, Truth, Honesty, Gentleness, Industry, Frugality, Forgiveness, Carefulness, Mercy, and Humility; and to view in their real colours the opposite vices of...
"Being the most agreeable & rational recreation ever invented for youth of both sexes." A roll-and-move racing game with 84 space illustrating different stages of a man's life, broken down into 12 ages - boyhood, youth, young man, the prime of life, the sedate man, the old man, and decrepitude. The players race to reach the ending space, depicting The...
A race game based on Paul Pry (1825), a farcical comedy, written by the English playwright John Poole. It premiered in London on 1825-09-13 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran 114 performances. The play continued to be popular until the early 1870s. Description from Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days by Francis Reginald Beaman Whitehouse: "PAUL PRY....
The game is a simple race game somewhat similar to the better known Chutes and Ladders game. To play you'd need two dice (or a tee totem according to the rules...), a distinct marker for each player, and the game sheet. Presumably only the game sheet was sold and the player would have to supply the other components. The 122 spaces on the game board are...