Spaghetti based haunted house board game.

[Jamo]

Hello,

I'd love to rediscover an image of this game that I played many times in the early seventies.

I'm thinking it was a free game, sent off for by cutting coupons perhaps. It came from Spaghetti Letters (or was it Alphabetti-Spaghetti?). Hence, it had no box.


It was a board game that was folded in two, but opened into a game set in a haunted house. Quite simple, players just threw a dice and moved along the ghostly-themed squares, up the board (right, up, left, up, right, up and so on), until you then came straight down the board along its right hand side (down a chimney, I think). As per usual...one square near the end sent you right back to near the very start. Grrr (I always seemed to land on that).


I remember the squares wound through a haunted house and I think many were decorated, or bordered by the bright orange reminiscent of the spaghetti itself.

As I said, I'm sure my parents sent of for it, free. But surely I wasn't the only kid in Britain that got it. It seemed like it at the time, as I know none of the local kids had it and I was quite in demand for my free, spaghetti-based haunted house board game.

I'd love to see a piccy of it again.


...Jamo

[Heather74]

http://bp0.blogger.com/_Ou-LlEaaDOY/R6j11a394BI/AAAAAAAAARQ/Y1xlfD7aTkE/s320/Crosse+%26+Blackwell.jpg
:p

Taken from The Cobwebbed room.

[Jamo]

I've found a clue!!! At last. Here's an advert for it. It seems to have been something my parents sent off for, after collecting coupons from tins of Alphabetti Spaghetti by Cross & Blackwell.


http://bp0.blogger.com/_Ou-LlEaaDOY/R6j11a394BI/AAAAAAAAARQ/Y1xlfD7aTkE/s1600-h/Crosse+&+Blackwell.jpg

Now, if only I can see a piccy of the actually boardgame after years of looking.

...James

[Heather74]

Look up :)

[Jamo]

Oh my god!!! Is that spooky or what? I post this over a year ago. No replies at all. Then today, I find a clue, and just as I list it, I'm gobsmacked and confused to see someone else has posted the same advertisement. How had I missed it? Well, I hadn't! It was posted in virtually the same minute I posted my find!!!

Huggie74, I'm almost spooked by this!!!! Proper weird.

...Jamo

[Heather74]

Jamo I was having a peek who was on line,saw the thread title and remembered seeing it at the CWR, so fetched it for you LOL, I do however think Daz may have posted it before here somewhere but cant find it yet :)

[Jamo]

Amazing coincidence. And yet, I'm still fruitless in finding an actual pic of the game itself to satisfy my craving for this particular memory.

I asked my old Dad about it the other week, and though he remembered it quite well, he feels it was eventually given to some younger cousin or neighbourhood kid. He feels sure it's not tucked away in his house. Pity.

[sixtyten]

And here it is!!
http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=1161&d=1237123132

1161
Courtesy of Cobwebbed Room Blog

[Heather74]

:eek: OMG, Brilliant, Hope you have PM'd OP :D Nice Find D.

[Jamo]

Wow, thanks. That's amazing. I am the original poster that was pining for a glimpse of this childhood fave of mine. Thanks aplenty for your efforts.

Looking back over my original description, I wasn't far out, was I?

And to match all my joy at seeing it again, I can feel just as much hatred brewing for that dastardly penultimate 'square' that sent you back to the G space very near the beginning. Grrrr. Hehe.

But wow, what a memory. I wonder how many of these survive.

...Jamo

[Tân Coul]

Heh, I remember this now - was one of my favourite games at the time, like most things of that era I guess mine got discarded at some point... couldn't you pick up a key along the way to save you from that penultimate square's dastardliness and win you the game instead?

In fact looking at the board there were two keys, just after the first O and second R.

[stewart]

Got onto this site via a google search for the alphabetti spaghetti haunted house game.Probably was about 1974.Only squares I remember were the snuff out the candle squares (xy and candle squares-see board),I think you got stuck there until you threw a six and they were hard to avoid as they ran consecutively..

[Ali]

I still have mine...its rather battered now after much playing with in the 70's. Loved it then and still love it.

[Teejay]

Whats a ghosts favourite food? SPOOKGHETTI.

I thank you.....

[Jimbob]

God, I'd totally forgotten about this one. Someone needs to run the board, pieces and rules through a scanner so the game isn't lost forever. It's obviously rare now.

[Robster020]

I have one of these games too. Unfortunately four of the pieces are missing, but it still has the spinner, rules, packaging and a letter from Cross and Blackwell. Anyone have an idea how rare it is. I have checked the net and ebay, but this forum seems to be the only reference to it!

[sixtyten]

Big Size

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu86/DarrenLeeStephens/Whizzer285Page15.jpg