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Models built for the 'Games' Secretary's Challenge

The Challenge:

This Challenge is one from Cathy Warrell. It is to build a board game or similar in Meccano - or using as much Meccano as you can without resorting to cardboard or paper.

The game can be one that already exists or you can invent your own.

It doesn't actually have to have a board as such. So games such as chess and snakes and ladders count, as do dominoes and nine men's morris.

Chess or Draughts Board

Built by Brian Elvidge

This board is eight squares by eight squares, on a 12" base. It is built from a selection of flat plates of various colours, with angle girders around the four edges, and more plates to produce a 1½" surround on which four feet are fixed. A se...

Connect Four

Built by Tim Surtell

This simple but popular game was first sold by Milton Bradley in 1974. Two players take turns inserting their coloured discs into the grid, aiming to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line of four of their own discs. My use of re...

Dominos

Built by Andrew Couzens

Lost In Space

Built by Chris Fry

I had been thinking of making this model for some time since acquiring a copy of New Wood Puzzle Designs by James W. Follette. Can the spaceship negotiate the complex gravity field of the star and escape to make further explorations? I have to sa...

Monopoly

Built by Guy Loveridge

Just the board, none of the money or other accessories. The layout, colours and symbols on the board are represented as closely as possible with parts available.

Othello (Or Reversi) Game

Built by Chris Warrell

The object of this game is to fill the 8x8 board with counters of your colour (blue or yellow in this case, but usually black and white) by flipping over your opponent's each time you place a counter.

Racing Car Game

Built by John Gay

A Spear's game for three players.

Snakes and Ladders

Built by Brian Leach

The snakes are just curved strips and the snake's tongue is made of centre forks. To avoid unsightly numbers there are arrows to show the direction of play.

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