Market Day
2010/21/4
Ravensburger (Manufacturer),
Michael Hicks-Beech (Author),
Katrin Lindley (Designer)
‘Market Day’ is a children’s board game in which 2–4 players in which each player tries to buy a horse, sheep, cow and pig to complete their farm. The game was first manufactured by Ravensburger, Germany, in 1984, and was distributed in the UK by Fisher-Price. The game contains a game board, rules, various playing pieces and game cards, and a dice. This is the game board, each quarter of which depicts a farm belonging to one of the players. Around the outside of the board are playing squares, many with pictures of animals which tell the player what he/she must do when landing on that square.
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Description: Board game in box, called ‘Market Day’. Described as a ‘fun-filled game for young children collecting horses, cows, pigs and sheep from the market.’ Copyright 1984 by Otto Maier Verlog Ravensburg. Distributed in the UK by Fisher Price, Peterlee, Co. Durham. // Dimensions: Box: 27cm x 37cm x 3.5cm // Associated information: Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. // References:'2010/21/1 Box lid. 2010/21/2 Box base. 2010/21/3 Box insert. 2010/21/4 Game board. 2010/21/5 Rules. 2010/21/6/1–4 Tractor x 4 (green, blue, red, yellow). 2010/21/7/1–16 Animal x 16 (4 each of horse, cow, sheep, pig). 2010/21/8/1–60 Card x 60 (15 each of horse, cow, sheep, pig). 2010/21/9 Dice.Rules text – ‘Object of the Game // Each quarter of the board depicts a farm belonging to one of the players. Missing from each farm are the most important animals: the horse, the cow, the sheep and the pig. Each player tries to be the first to buy all four animals at the market and so complete his farmyard.’
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