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The Liman Collection of Board Games and Puzzles

The Cottage of Content, or Right Roads and Wrong Ways

1848, William Spooner, London, England.

Despite its moral message, The Cottage of Content achieves its aims through humor. Notice “Blanket Row,” in which a group playfully tosses a man in the air, or “Frog Island,” where dancing frogs wear formal dress. Players advance along curving roads and encounter rewards and forfeits along the way, including “Pay 2 for folly” or “Take 2 for being charitable.”

Gift of Ellen Liman ‘57

The Cottage of Content, or Right Roads and Wrong Ways game poster

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