World War I wooden puzzle game "The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin" (Addition 27) 2023-0196

Containers:

Flat_Box 5

Extent:

0.15 Cubic Feet Custom Made Box ( 8x13 1/4)

Scope and content:

This addition to MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a 9.5" x 6.5" wooden puzzle with a wooden frame and a glass window titled the Silver Bullet: Or the Road to Berlin.

Original metal ball and elements intact. Directions on the verso of the game. British dexterity puzzle for a juvenile audience, made of wood and glass. The game's object is maneuvering a metal ball through a winding course, avoiding holes, to the Berlin area. Although the topography of the play suggests the trenches of the Western Front, at the time of the game's creation, the troops had not "dug in." The title, Silver Bullet, suggests a quick victory and supports the view that the British public believed the war would be over by Christmas 1914.

Language:

English

Subjects:

games

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