The Mansion of Happiness
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The Mansion of Happiness is a board game independently designed and published by Anne Abbot in 1843. The game consists of two to four players racing around a spiral board. The players utilize dice to move. The object of the game is to be the first player to reach the Mansion of Happiness in the center of the board. The game track is comprised of virtuous spaces (such as Honesty and Temperance) along with trial and temptation spaces (such as Poverty and Perjury). The Mansion of Happiness was the first board game to be published in the United States. The game was later republished by Parker Brothers in 1894.
