Case 23
- Games of Moral Improvement & Religious Instruction
T. Newton. The new game of the mansion of bliss: in verse. London: Bodley Head, 1981.
The mansion of bliss (1810) is a table game of chance
of the moral improvement type, rewarding virtue and punishing vice. It takes
the form of a spiral track with numbered pictorial sections. Players moved
their respective men by spinning the teetotum, a small top or disc usually
numbered from one to four.
T. Newton. The new game of the mansion of bliss: in verse. London: Bodley Head, 1981.
Accompanying
rule book for The new game of the Mansion
of bliss.
![Isabel Reed (compiler). <em>Reed's Bible game.</em> Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [193-?]](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/__data/assets/image/0009/525258/23c.jpg)
Isabel Reed (compiler). Reed's Bible game. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [193-?]
Published
by A.H. Reed, these boxes of hand-typed Bible-themed cards are each accompanied
by rules for four different games (including one played like ‘Happy families’)
intended to enhance knowledge of the books and characters of the Bible.
![<em>Books of the Bible; New Testament who’s who; Old Testament who’s who.</em> Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [194-?]](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/__data/assets/image/0010/525259/23d.jpg)
Books of the Bible; New Testament who’s who; Old Testament who’s who. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [194-?]
In this
later edition of Reed’s Bible game,
the text is printed in book form, to be cut up into cards.
Books of the Bible; New Testament who’s who; Old Testament who’s who. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [194-?]
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