How Is The Game Mouse Trap Played?

Mouse Trap was a classic game that was designed by Marvin Glass and released by Ideal Toys in 1963.

The gadget -laden action game has players taking turns building an elaborate, three-dimensional, Rube Goldberg-esque contraption on a game board. When the zany mechanical wonder is complete, players take turns, through a chain reaction of events, trying to trap the opponents playing piece which is a little plastic mouse.

It works like this: A player turns a crank that rotates a gear causing lever to move and push a stop sign against a shoe; the shoe then tips a bucket that has a metal ball inside; the ball rolls down a rickety staircase and into a drainpipe, allowing it to hit a helping hand rod; this causes a bowling ball to fall from the top of the helping hand rod, through the thingamajig and a bathtub, and land on a diving board; the weight of the bowling ball then catapults a diver through the air and right into a washtub, which causes a cage to fall on the mouse.

This game was a huge success.