Talk:Mouse Trap (board game)

Earlier Version
I seem to remember there was an earlier game called "Mouse Trap" available in Sweden and Finland in the early 1980's. It did not use any fancy Rube Goldberg devices. Instead it had a spring-operated bar with a lot of disc-shaped counters holding it in place. The object was to remove as many counters as you can without causing the bar to spring out. Could anyone confirm this, and if possible add info to the article?

Mouse Trap is now totally different
This article refers to the game Mouse Trap as I knew it in my youth; however I strolled into Woolworths the other day and found Mouse Trap to now be a totally different game! It has three different mechanisms running together, or something, and seems to be made of much larger sections, rather than the fiddly parts of the game detailed here.

Does anybody know anything about this change and could they please update the wiki article?
 * The 'new Mouse Trap' as I call it .. I remember getting it, whilst giving my copy of the original away .. basically, in my opinion it sucked. Mainly because all three traps eventually broke and _never_ worked .. I actually preferred the older one even before the traps broke. 80.225.130.243 (talk) 20:04, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Is there more than one Mouse Trap game circulating in the UK?
The article notes that the game was re-released in 2006 with a different design, as the commenter above notes. However, as of today (7/19/2008) the version for sale on amazon.co.uk is the same as discussed in the article, with two tone instead of multi-color pieces. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.140.217 (talk) 01:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Premise
OHH.... You build the trap DURING gameplay. We never had the instructions, so my sister and I always built the trap, then started playing. JimmmyThePiep 16:30, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

False Advertising
The machine never works the way its showed in the commercial. 12va34 03:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Diagram labels
Where are the 'A', 'B', 'C', etc. mentioned in the article? Drutt (talk) 17:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The diagram was obviously nixed as a copyright image. I meant to nix that section anyway, due to rewrite. TheHYPO (talk) 10:14, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Some of the Mechanics Changes
Comparing a later version of the game to the one I had as a kid (probably original), I note these differences:

- The second ball was originally called the Bowling Ball and was indeed larger than the steel ball that traverses the Stairs and Rain Gutter, and was made of plastic. The two balls are the same in my later version (both steel), and the exit hole in the Bathtub has been made smaller, ensuring accurate delivery to the Diving Board. Looking at Mousetrap videos on youtube, I have seen the larger ball in different colors.

- The Helping Hand originally had a metal spring which helped its action, and the tab that held it in place tucked on the underside of the lower of the Plumbing part's hands, holding the spring in tension. In the later version of the game, the spring is eliminated and the tab rests on top of the lower of the plumbing hands; the tab is shaped so that the arm is first raised higher before it becomes completely disengaged, resulting in an equivalent action.

- The Rain Gutter now has a raised rail in the center that I presume helps reduce the friction of the steel ball rolling down the shaft, resulting in a slightly higher final velocity (experiment needed).

- The Stairs were originally a single peice of molded plastic, then later became 3 peices (steps plus detachable legs). The original has superior performance, as after a few cycles, the newer stairs start to come apart.

In the original patent for Mouse Trap (3,298,692), a drawing shows a spring in place of the rubber band connected to the Stop Sign.

Tim-mnm (talk) 1 July 2009

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Proposed merge with Crazy Clock Game
If Crazy Clock Game is an early version of the game Mouse Trap, should the two be merged? (especially when no sources are offered for Crazy Clock Game) 331dot (talk) 11:54, 18 December 2016 (UTC) 331dot (talk) 11:54, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The article both claims that CCG is a different game and that it was renamed, which seems like a contradiction. I can't support merging the content without sources, in any case. DonIago (talk) 14:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Support Two games, both from Ideal (so it's recycling rather than copying) and they are clearly almost identical in their mechanism  (If I were a kid, I'd be disappointed just how similar).  We give a better article if we cover both in one place. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:47, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it'd be better if we just incorporate the Crazy Clock article into this one and put it in a section or something. Also that article says it's released a year after Mouse Trap, not before? How is it an early version of Mouse Trap then?--Krystaleen 15:28, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 15:15, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

A World Without Reality
, you mass-deleted a citation for a source that's covering a mass of subjects, with no explanation. I don't know anything about this book except face value on its product description, which obviously says that it's written about a prolific designer of a ton of Wikipedia subjects. And it's apparently seeming to be an authority on a non-controversial subject, right? Though possibly self published and I don't know what the editorial oversight is, or what the encyclopedic requirement is for such without any controversy. How is that not a WP:RS? How is "citespam" even real at all? What is that lingo supposed to mean? You didn't even link to a policy page to help anyone understand. You didn't even say that it's not a WP:RS, or that it's not about the given subject which the book description clearly says it is. Even if you prove these things, you failed to communicate that and demonstrate that you're not actually the unencyclopedically destructive one. So please do so! If that's not the case then it's incumbent on you to immediately restore your mass deletions. That's as far as I can comment without having the book, but it's incumbent to prove the positive not the negative. — Smuckola(talk) 01:04, 26 July 2020 (UTC)


 * For a definition of citespam, see WP:CITESPAM. A single purpose account adding a sales site link for a self published book to more than a dozen articles qualifies as link spamming. This cite was being added merely to list the book, it supported no new content. Even aside from that, it is a self published book by an apparently first-time author with unclear qualifications, I don't see how it could be a WP:RS. - MrOllie (talk) 01:19, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 16 October 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 21:33, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Mouse Trap (game) → Mouse Trap (board game) – Disambiguate from Mouse Trap (video game) * Pppery * it has begun... 02:17, 16 October 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. ✅ Dr. Vogel (talk) 21:37, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Support the board game has 4,243 views compared with 352[|Mouse_Trap_(video_game)] for the video game, probably not enough for a PADB.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 16:37, 16 October 2022 (UTC)