Small device used to trap mice. Basically, it is a spring-loaded trap designed to decapitate a mouse by snapping shut with tremendous force. Very useful in launching ping pong balls.

Or, an uberspiffed board game by Milton Bradley, wherein you build a Rube Goldberg machine to trap your opponents.

Atari 2600 Game
Produced by: Coleco
Model#: 2667
Atari Rarity Guide: 2 Common

This Atari 2600 game, (by Coleco), was a port of the Exidy arcade game of the same name, (could that get much more confusing). This game was also available, (with better graphics), on the ColecoVision.

You are a mouse in a maze who must avoid cats and hawks while searching for cheese and bonus items. Gameplay is very similar to Pac-Man, (but not quite as good). Not a bad game, (not a very good game either).

This game is worth around $2 USD. Games with boxes and manuals are worth more.

Non-Lethal Mouse Trap

If you don't want to kill the mouse, just get a toilet paper roll and place a pumpkin seed in one end of it. Place the toilet roll so that it is hanging precariously over some kind of bucket or wastebasket. Put some shredded newspaper or whatever into the basket if you think the mouse might take some damage from the fall.

Mice love tunnels so they will naturally run into the tube and overbalance it so it falls into the basket. After this you simply dump him in your neighbor's yard. make sure you wash out the basket with bleach because house mice are usually diseased.

A children's board game that has been made by Milton Bradley (MB) since the 1970s.

Object of the game

The object of the game is quite simple: be the last player whose counter hasn't been caught in the crazy trap that springs on the cheese space on the board.

The trap

Mouse trap's trademark trap is made of several bizarre objects, which are:

1. A hand-crank
2. A set of gears
3. A spring-loaded lever
4. A hexagonal stop sign
5. A lamp post
6. A boot on a stick
7. A bucket
8. A metal ball
9. A staircase
10. A drainpipe
11. A set of pipes
12. A hand on a pole
13. A piece of plastic described only as a thing-a-ma-jig
14. A bath tub
15. A bowling ball
16. A see-saw
17. A statue of a diver
18. A wash tub
19. A base for the trap
20. A pole with notches in it.
21. And finally, a cage that is the payload of the trap.

Pieces of the trap are numbered so it can be constructed in the correct order. There are holes in the playing board, for the trap pieces to be inserted into.

Game play

Starting with the youngest player and then continuing in a clockwise direction, players take turns to roll a six-sided die and move their counters, which are shaped like mice around the board. spaces on the board have a number of effects, from going back a given number of spaces to missing a turn. The most interesting spaces however are the white ones, which invite the player to erect the next piece of the trap.

Players continue until they get to the end of the board. At this point, there is a circle of spaces that the players must continue traveling around for the remainder of the game. This circle features the the most interesting space in the game: The cheese space. Upon landing on the cheese space, the player must, if the trap is fully constructed, turn the hand-crank to set the trap in motion. If the trap works, the cage will come down and trap the player's counter. That player will then be out of the game and his counter is removed from the board. If the trap fails, for example if the cage doesn't come all the way down the notched pole, then the player survives and can continue playing. Play continues in this manner until there is only one player whose mouse hasn't been trapped. This player is the winner.