Parcheesi with a Shakespeare theme. Each space has the name of a Shakespeare play. Movement is by dice. The board contains "pick card" spaces, which do standard "move forward 4", "move back 3", etc. In the tournament game if you can name a previously unnamed character from the play your pawn is on you can move bonus spaces. Players win by getting their...
This very early shopping game was published in 1879 as an advertising vehicle by Philadelphia department store Strawbridge & Clothier. The board shows a circular track with 60 spaces. It is divided into four quadrants: blue, yellow, green and red. Each quadrant has spaces for three of the store's departments on the track, an elevator space inside the...
This undated game from Rosebud Art Co. is a spin-and-move game with a mathematical twist that is not nearly as easy as it looks. The board consists of five concentric circles of numbers connected by paths. There are four color-coded spaces in the corners and four matching spaces numbered 66 at the center. The number spaces range from minus 9 to plus 8. The...
The Game of Space is a wonderfully elaborate Space exploration game from Japan around 1969. The 3D game board has a winding path for players to travel through the Solar System. The path has a space station that is the central command post, players travel around the planets passing 3D red and green satellites, cosmic graveyard, Space Swimming pool and Solar...
User Summary This is a relatively simple title in which players advance race cars on a track by spinning a spinner. Each space on the spinner has two colors with associated numbers. When the spinner lands on a spot, both cars with the appropriate color move the number of spaces indicated. (For example: There's a spinner spot that shows a yellow 5 and a...
Object of Game: To see which of 4 errand boys can meet with the greatest success. Players spin the spinner and move around the board landing on squares that direct them to success or failure. The winner is the first person to reach the "44" square. Parts - 4 wooden pegs and one spinner. Instructions on back of box top. Brightly colored and lithographed...
The game of Tennis from National Games company. In this tennis game one uses a die and a pawn to represent the tennis ball which players try to rally back and forth over the net. Throw too small a number, and your ball wouldn’t make it over the net. Too big a number, and you would overshoot the back line. Published by the National Games Company which is...
The Game of Terry and the Pirates was produced by the Whitman Co. in 1937. Special dice let Terry, Pat, Connie, Dale, Old Pops and the Bandits to try and move around the board in an attempt to collect the treasures. Playing pieces included 4 wooden markers for the characters and 4 wooden scoring markers. The playing board had different things that could...