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Mouse Trap
by Milton Bradley
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This memory was added on: April 19, 2007
With really frugal parents, I never got this game, but played it at friends' homes. What a blast! But the closest I ever got to getting "Mousetrap" was when I got a cat and his name was "Mousetrap"!
Lynne
1961
This memory was added on: March 22, 2007
I originally came across the Mouse Trap apparatus sometime in the late 1960's to early 1970's at my grandmother's house in Battle Creek, MI. As a pathologically-curious kid on the order of 8 years old, it was quite the fascination. We never played the game, just built and tried operating the trap. We later had one when I was something like 14, only it wasn't the same. Feeling particularly retro lately, I bought a new set for $15.99 at K-Mart and just set it up the other night. The tough part has always been getting the ball from the rain trough to hit the shaft that goes to the helping hand in the correct way, to push the other ball into the bathtub. I remembered this problem from when I was young, in doing the latter-day one.
Raymond B.
1962
This memory was added on: December 31, 2006
I bought this for my son and the instructions are have been lost. We just want to know what the numbers on the squares are supose to mean and what the heck you do with the pieces of cheese. Ok, one more thing....when's the game over? By the way... our trap doesn't work either! But he still loves to set it off.
Mom
1970
This memory was added on: October 25, 2006
My best friend and I would play Mouse Trap when we were young. We did some crazy things with the game, like put water in the little tub the man hopped into, we'd hide the mouse in the cage and he'd fall with the cage, we'd use real cheese, we'd try to drop the little man through the tub hole, we'd block the marble's path with things heavy or lightweight to see if the marble would push it, we'd tighten the rubberband so that the foot would pop real hard and sometimes send the marble flying. This game stimulated our creativity. We always made up our own rules to games. We'd play the right way, but always decided our rules were more fun. The most aggravating piece was the plumbing...hooking that little piece and telling our little guests, "DON'T BUMP THE BOARD OR IT WILL POP OFF!!!" Thanks for stimulating my memory...I'd forgotten. I'm 41 now and played when with my friend when I was age 6 to 10. Now I play with my boys. I lost the directions, went to search for them, and found this site. HOORAY FOR GAMES! - RSF-Virginia
RSF
1965
This memory was added on: October 21, 2006
We DID play the game thru, believe it or not---we were babysat by an aunt who was into that sorta thing. Really funky kinda game, Rube Goldberg time stuff. Good fun too.
Grulg
1966
This memory was added on: October 12, 2006
this was a hard game but my dad would play it with me and get the whole trap to work....that was so awesome! I have great memories of my dad taking the time to play this with me and I treasure those days. I love my dad.
ck
1973
This memory was added on: September 24, 2006
i never owned the game never played the game but i know the commercial by heart so i guess you could say it's left an impression on me
Amy
1991
This memory was added on: September 22, 2006
Never played it right just built the trap and set it off. The stupid ball would never land on the see-saw but I still loved it anyway.
Dan
1986
This memory was added on: August 29, 2006
I don't think ANYONE has really played the full game of Mousetrap. I guessing about 99.9% of the people just play with the trap itself over & over again. I do remember , which are just cheese cards now, the the cheese was madeo ut of small plasic yellow chunks of cheese like pieces. I have an up to date version and my kids love it as much as I did back then !
Shawn
62
This memory was added on: June 21, 2006
I just loved to set it up and watch it over and over. I would get aggravated with the ball balancing up on top b/c it would always fall and I'd have to reset everything.
Heather
1968
This memory was added on: June 15, 2006
Mousetrap was a cool game, man. I remember the original TV commercial. Many years later, I got a newer version of the game for my kids, and they always liked playing it. The newer version had "cheese cards", which was probably an improvement in the play, but the old board had more charm. For those who lost the rules, the trap is built DURING play. Each player adds a piece as he or she takes a turn. And yes, I agree, that "lamp post" was a little too fragile for normally rough kids. No, it was not the best board game ever invented, but it sure was (and apparently still is) DIFFERENT! And for sheer nostalgia, it's hard to beat.
Ken Coates
1953
This memory was added on: June 11, 2006
Wow. I had so much fun with his when I was a kid. And I think I still have some of the peices. XD
Maggalaggadingdong
1991
This memory was added on: May 20, 2006
Did anyone ever actually play the game? It seems to me we would always spend about 30 minutes trying to set the thing up and then just set it off without actually playing the game!
Jeanie
1975
This memory was added on: March 10, 2006
it's a awsome game and it's amazing how the trap works
lollypop
1932
This memory was added on: March 9, 2006
I think the game was strategically misunderstood...it had to be. Any time you spend well over 15-20 minutes trying to put the damn thing together so the pieces fit like they were supposed to and then when u finally set the thing off, the "fun" only last...30 seconds. That's some bull. You mean to tell me I spent all this time putting this thing together for the thing to do barely nothing in a short amount of time? I think me and my cousins put the game together maybe twice before we took the individual parts and used them for our G.I. Joes or Barbie dolls. The tub was always good for Barbie bathtime.
B. Easy
1987
This memory was added on: February 17, 2006
What I want to know is do you put the mousetrap together before you play or while you play? We lost the rules somewhere. I gave the game to my grandkids but they lost the rules.
Mollymom
1943
This memory was added on: January 8, 2006
Well this game shows that not all things retro were good. My friend got this at christmas, and after the usual big present unwrapping was over, we turned back to Mousetrap,
It just didnt work!, n matter how hard we tried, we spent more tome flicking it because it had stuck, or retrieving the ball from under the table where it had jumped off the game.
I still wouldnt buy this even today. I have no Idea how it is still for sale!.
Marron
1966
This memory was added on: December 24, 2005
Mouse trap... I mean... it's really more of a complicated Heath Robinson sketch than a board game. I can't for the life of me remember the rules..these days I just watch people playing it.
Will
1992
This memory was added on: December 3, 2005
Is it just me? Or does anybody else remember the commercial as if were yesterday?
gabriel
1971
This memory was added on: December 3, 2005
I remember my brother and I playing Mouse Trap a lot when we were kids.
Lori
1972
This memory was added on: November 18, 2005
I'm an only child and I would play this by myself and couldn't put the stupid trap together. I think my mom felt sorry for me and tried to play it with me. Even she couldn't figure it out! It was dumb.
Sherr
1969
This memory was added on: November 14, 2005
I remember this game even bought one for my kids. This was my sisters favorite game.
Susie
1977
This memory was added on: November 14, 2005
I remember my older sister beating the hell out of me for breaking the lamp post the boot swung on.( But, then again, she beat the hell out of me a lot anyway. In her eyes, that was just another good reason, .)
Wild Bill
1966
This memory was added on: October 25, 2005
I never actually played the game, but I loved springing the trap!
Fad23
1971
This memory was added on: October 8, 2005
My brother got Mouse Trap as a gift. I remember the first piece, and maybe the second, were hard to attach to the board so we just left them on. Other than that, we didn't have problems. I remember our rule was that on the very rare occasion that the trap didn't come down, you were still caught; because it was supposed to work and no one should be penalized if it didn't. Oh, and we didn't put water in the tub. (Mom's Rule) We enjoyed it for a few years.
Mary
1956
This memory was added on: August 28, 2005
Omg I remeber plat this game with my brothers was it just not the best game??? Well I think was the bees knees!! lol I hope the little ones of today know this I will always remember it!!!
Kim
1988
This memory was added on: August 21, 2005
I got Mouse Trap when I was five. No sooner had we begun our first game when I became hopelessly frustrated at setting up the plastic do-hickeys. With tears streaming down my face my mother took the game away - FOREVER! The echoes of that incident explain much about my life.
R Neal
1962
This memory was added on: August 7, 2005
My nieces loved this game. So does my daughther. I just don't get the appeal, but my husband enjoys it.
PJ Hedrick
1961
This memory was added on: July 3, 2005
I was so excited when Santa brought this in the mid seventies! Unfortunatly, I am an only child, so my memories are more of playing "at" it that with it!! After seeing all the posts about the faulty mousetrap, I wish I knew wether or not mine actually worked.
Lynne
1968
This memory was added on: March 22, 2005
When my parents moved two years ago, one of the things I pulled out of the basement was the Mousetrap game which miraculously still contained all of the parts! Like others here, I think I played WITH it more than I played it. I tried it out with my year and a half old son - he just wanted to tear it down, ha!
Joel
1965
This memory was added on: March 7, 2005
My friend and cousins had this game I always wanted one but never got it, I have some good memorys playing.
Beverly
1960
This memory was added on: February 3, 2005
My sister swallowed the steel ball from this one then said it had happened to me! The truth- and the ball- eventually came out.
saint_al
1963
This memory was added on: November 18, 2004
My sister and I got this game for christmas one year (I don't know why I was afraid of mice)but the stupid game never worked right. We took more time setting it up then actually playing it.
Lill
1963
This memory was added on: October 28, 2004
Yikes I feel so nostalgic now!I had this game plus Crazy Clock also, Does anybody here remember Green Ghost. that was a cool game.For some reason the glow in the dark ghose reminded me of that ghosy In GhostBusters. that one that slimed Bill Murray.
Penny
1959
This memory was added on: October 4, 2004
Mouse Trap would never actually trap the mouse... by the time you had the whole trap built, your opponent would just wreck it, or it wouldn't even work! I remember winning but ending up losing because the stupid net didn't fall! We ended up losing the pieces and had to throw it away...
Although those years are way behind me, I feel like I've lived through them. I know everything about them anyway... Child of the Sixties... that's what mother calls me!
Mary
1990
This memory was added on: August 22, 2004
I remember playing this game with the next door neighbors when I was a kid. They had this game, I think it was a a late sixties, maybe a seventies version of the game though. I got this game for Christmas one year, but I never could play it since I lost the pieces.
Sarah
1982
This memory was added on: July 6, 2004
Of course after a while no one actually played the game; you just built the mousetrap. This game was followed by "Alarm Clock", which I was given while recuperating from a few injuries. My parents were feeling a bit guilty at the time as we were in a car wreck on the way back from a vacation, and guess who was the only one injured? I spent about 4 months in traction and a cast, altogether. This was the only toy I asked for during all that time, and then I felt guilty when I saw how much they'd spent on it- $5!
michael e
1954
This memory was added on: July 2, 2004
We actually had a HOUSE RULE that if one of the pieces didn't work (usually cage didn't come down like it was supposed to, or the shoe), you had to go around again. It wound up adding more suspense to the game, because it was fun waiting to see if the darn trap was going to work this time.
altoidsaddict
1976
This memory was added on: July 2, 2004
I saw the commercial for Mouse Trap and absolutely had to have it. For my b-day, my parents bought me this game. And bought it again. And bought it again. It seems that the batch of Mouse Traps from the Toys 'R' Us near where we lived all contained (or didn't contain, rather) the same missing part. The manufacturer was no help, and my parents refused to purchase a fourth Mouse Trap. As such, I had three copies of this game, each missing the damn mouse cage. My dad was too lazy to return the stupid games (To this day I don't know why he kept buying additional Mouse Traps rather than exchanging them, though it may have something to do with my methods of unwrapping presents, I can't quite recall) I've never was able to play this game, though I wonder what it would've been like....
Andrew
1974
This memory was added on: April 21, 2004
I was waiting for my Mom to get off the phone and play Mouse Trap with me. So I put the rickety stair marble in my mouth and practiced headstands on the couch. My Mom got off the phone quickly when I yelled out that I swallowed the marble. Unfortunately we couldn't play since there was a piece missing. Three days later nature returned the ball but we found a different one to use.
Poopsie
1968
This memory was added on: March 5, 2004
"Roll the dice, move your mice!" Must've seen that commercial a million times...
S Travers
1966
This memory was added on: February 11, 2004
I wanted this game sooooo badly but never got it. I had played it at a friend's house and thought it was the coolest ever. I think probably now I'd find it was a pain in the butt for my own kids. Anyway, it was like magic when everything worked right.
Sarah
1964
This memory was added on: November 26, 2003
This game was complicated to me. That's about all I remember about it. I begged my mom to get for me and I might have played it 2 or 3 times, then I retired it for years and decided to give it to a much younger cousin in the mid 1980's. My cousin loved it.
Angie
1967
This memory was added on: October 15, 2003
I never could get this game to work right...I just remember filling up that little tub with water for the diver guy to jump in...it seemed like the obvious thing to do.
Jimi
1982
This memory was added on: August 26, 2003
My cousins and I used to have Mouse Trap. We never really played the game, we just used to set up the course and make it work over and over again! Fun times!!!
Jeremy B.
1981
This memory was added on: July 3, 2003
That game was a blast!! They just don't make them like they used to!!
John
1964
This memory was added on: June 26, 2003
my friend and i used to play and fill the tub that the guy jumps in with water.
joe
1967
This memory was added on: June 19, 2003
It also took forever to set the game up...nobody ever cared about playing the actual game, we just wanted to see it work....
Jack
1964
This memory was added on: May 12, 2003
Mouse Trap was my favorite game of all time. After I was in my early teens, my cousins came to visit and we all played it. My youngest cousin loved the game, so my mom gave it to him! I was so upset! Last year, some of my friends gave me the new version. I didn't know they still made it. The pieces didn't fit together as well, and we couldn't get the boot to kick the bucket right, but we still had fun.
Angela
1964
This memory was added on: May 12, 2003
Well I DID get the Mouse Trap game for Christmas (also from the Sear's Wishbook, as a matter of fact) and it was a major disappointemnt f the season. Perhaps there was a defect in the manufacture of the pieces, but it NEVER worked like it was supposed to.
tchotchke applesaus
1975
This memory was added on: May 3, 2003
Here's what I remember about Mouse Trap: every year I went through the Sears Wish Book and wished for this game and never got it.
Dr. Gonzo
1978
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