The board also contains small mountains, buildings, and other similar pieces, making the playing area three-dimensional. The game consists of a track, on which players travel by spinning a small wheel with spaces numbered 1 through 10, located in the middle of the board. In 1960, the one hundredth anniversary of the game, the form of the game now known as The Game of Life, was introduced, designed by Reuben Klamer. A player could gain fifty points toward this goal by reaching 'Happy Old Age' in the far corner, opposite 'Infancy' where one began. The object was to land on the 'good' spaces and collect 100 points. The game board was essentially a modified checkerboard. īradley's game did not include dice, but instead used a teetotum, a six sided top (dice were considered too similar to gambling). Ives in 1843, it had a strong moral message. Like many games from the 19th century, such as the The Mansion of Happiness by S.B. The game sold 45,000 copies by the end of its first year. This was the first game created by Bradley, a successful lithographer, whose major product until that time was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a clean shaven face, which did not do very well once the subject grew his now-famous beard. The game was originally created in 1862 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life.

Game of life cards and board