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Running the Blockade

By: Charles Magnus

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Board Games (Charles Magnus)


Product Info

Title
Running the Blockade
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
1861
Dimensions
25x25x.05"
NKG Part #
2147749304
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
10 Years and Up
# Players
2 Players
Game Length
30 Minutes

Description

Hand-colored lithograph, 23.5 x 20 in. Running the Blockade. New York: Charles Magnus New York Printing Establishment, n.d., ca 1861-1865. A maze-based board game with a number of illustrated scenes, including Wilmington, NC harbor at center, surrounded by Civil War ships, ferries, and sailboats, as well as hazards such as torpedoes, reefs, sharks, cliffs, and whirlpools. The rules of the game printed in the lower margin explain, "Two or more players provide themselves with Wooden Pins. The object in view is to run between the lines of the blockading squadron and to reach Wilmington, NC." Magnus took advantage of the extra space below the rules, including an advertisement for "Magnus' Illustrated Ballads on Note paper. Assortment immense."

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