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Mouse Trap (board game)

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Mouse Trap is a children's board game first published in 1963 by Ideal Toy Company, notable for its centerpiece Rube Goldberg style mousetrap contraption that players assemble piece by piece over the course of play. Two to four players move mouse shaped tokens around a track by spinning a numbered dial, collecting cheese pieces and adding sections of the trap mechanism as they land on marked spaces, so the trap is only fully built and operational in the closing stages of a game. Once complete, a player can trigger the chain reaction trap, sending a marble down a runway, dropping a ball into a bathtub, releasing a diver and ultimately lowering a cage onto an opposing mouse token, capturing it. The winner is whichever player has not been trapped when the game ends. Mouse Trap combines simple chance driven movement with the novelty of building and firing a working mechanical toy, and it has remained in print through numerous editions and theme variants since its original release.

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Game Type (category)
Board Game 1
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Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
1963 1
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1. Mouse Trap board game (Wikipedia)
  • lead paragraph, game-type-category
    Mouse Trap, originally Mouse Trap Game, is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players.
  • Infobox players parameter: 2-4
  • Infobox: date or years of the game; lead sentence where the year appears
    Mouse Trap, originally Mouse Trap Game, is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players.
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