U.S. Copyright Office, cover
McLoughlin Brothers
[title]
COPYRIGHTED 1886 BY
COPYRIGHTED BY
McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS NEW-YORK
The box cover is wider vertically. The cover shows a messenger boy running left with a rounded building top behind him.
printed on game board
THE object of the game is to see who will first become the President of the Telegraph Co. Two, three or four persons can play :—each using one piece or man, and moving to his spin of the arrow. Play and spin in turn. Each player must first spin 1, which makes him an "Applicant" for a position, and upon doing so puts his piece upon the Application space. On a spin of 2 the Applicant moves to the "Training School." On a spin of 3, he leaves the Training School, and takes his place on the "Messenger Force, or entrance space. From this space, he moves around the board in the direction of the openings and arrows, moving over the number of spaces shown by his spin. If he stops upon a space bearing words of command as "Advance" or "Go back"; in addition to the move, for his spin, he also moves as thus directed. The first to reach the space "President" by the exact move wins the game.
9⅜ inches wide — 17¼ inches high — 1⅝ inches deep
23.8 cm wide — 43.8 cm high — 4.1 cm deep
Bifold game board measures 17" wide by 16 1/4" high when open. The title on the back of the game board is "Messenger Boy" over "Game", in cursive letters and with "Messenger Boy" at an angle upward to the right. There is a hole with a metal grommet around it in the lower right corner.
The game includes a metal arrow spinner attached to a small blue piece of wood that fits into a thick cardboard circle marked 1, 4, 2, and 3.
The four painted metal game piece movers depict a messenger boy, each with blue jacket, pants, and hat. The bases are painted light green, light blue, orange-red, and yellow.
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