Game play The Mansion of Happiness



the game board s goal @ track s end depicts men , women making music , dancing before house , garden.


the mansion of happiness roll-and-move track board game, and, typical of such games, object first player reach goal @ end of board s track, here called mansion of happiness (heaven). centrally located on board, goal pictures happy men , women making music , dancing before house , garden. reach mansion of happiness, player spins teetotum , races around sixty-six space spiral track depicting various virtues , vices.


instructions upon spaces depicting virtues move player closer mansion of happiness while spaces depicting vices send player pillory, house of correction, or prison, , thus, further mansion of happiness. sabbath-breakers sent whipping post. vice of pride sends player humility, , vice of idleness poverty. game s rules noted:



whoever possesses piety, honesty, temperance, gratitude, prudence, truth, chastity, sincerity...is entitled advance 6 numbers toward mansion of happiness. whoever gets passion must taken water , have ducking cool him... whoever posses[ses] audacity, cruelty, immodesty, or ingratitude, must return former situation till turn comes spin again, , not think of happiness, less partake of it.









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