Game pieces

Date: 1995

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; Wright, Trevor, active 1973-2011

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1995-01

Description: Board game with the message of environmental protection in all agricultural activities. Players move around a board and are given scenarios in which they must make decisions and experience the consequences. There are 79 question and answer cards, 40 Market cards, 40 Environment cards, 40 Community cards and 15 Decision cards. Box lid shows livestock grazing around farm buildings in rolling countryside with Mount Taranaki in the distance. Statement on box indicates support for the game's production from The New Zealand Way Ltd and Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Quantity: 1 boxed board game. Physical Description: Folding board 495 x 495 mm, plastic counters, die and games pieces, cards, and instruction pamphlet, in box with removable lid, 260 x 500 x 30 mm. Provenance: Acquired through the Legal Deposit Office in 1995.

Date: 2009

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-2009-01

Description: Board game in which "players try to discover their own island worlds. On the islands they find, they can acquire palms and huts of their own, and can acquire boats and shells". The box contains 97 island tiles, 5 player boards, 1 explorer ship, 5 small ships, 30 wooden shells and 1 rule booklet. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on game pieces, in lidded box 276 x 192 x 66 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2014.

Date: 1954

By: G J Hayter & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1954-01

Description: Boxed board game for which the instructions are printed inside the box lid. Players move counters along a track up to the summit of Everest, through Base Camp and 8 further camps, taking up 196 squares on the board. Player can be forced to turn back or wait, through such mishaps as illness, crevasses, crumbling ice, heavy snow, lack of supplies, gale force winds, broken rope and exhaustion. The game was published the year after the successful mountain climb of Everest, during which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay reached the summit. Quantity: 1 board game. Physical Description: Game board, 450 x 298 mm, folded to 225 x 298 mm; die and six coloured plastic counters, all in box 320 x 235 x 30 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Meridian Rare Books, London, in June 2013. Formerly from the collection of Sir George Lowe.

Date: 1984

From: [Three dimensional curios in the Ephemera Collection]

Reference: Eph-001

Description: Game pieces for "Hokianga holiday" board game. The game board which accompanies these game pieces is housed at Eph-C-GAME-1984-01. The game received a tourism design award in 1984 from the Minister of Tourism, Mike Moore. Quantity: 1 bag of game pieces. Physical Description: Brown felt drawstring bag, 110 x 60 mm, tied with leather cord; wooden hand-marked die and four polished coloured stone counters

Date: 1984

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size relating to both indoor and outdoor games. 1970-2019]

Reference: Eph-C-GAME-1984-01

Description: Game board shows a map of the Hokianga Harbour area, with a trail of spaces along which the players move. There is a small amount of information given for each geographical location, and historical notes at lower left. Statement at lower edge that the game was designed and produced by S Clarkson, and associates Morley and Brown of Kohukohu, with calligrahy by Dave Wood of Auckland. An attached paper slip states that the game received a tourism design award in 1984 from the Minister of Tourism, Mike Moore. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on game board.. Physical Description: Offset print on laminated sheet 490 x 335 mm. Transfers: The handmade wooden dice and polished stone game counters, are housed at Eph-001 and Eph-002.

Date: 1984

From: [Three dimensional curios in the Ephemera Collection]

Reference: Eph-002

Description: Game pieces for "Hokianga holiday" board game. The game board which accompanies these game pieces is housed at Eph-C-GAME-1984-01. The game received a tourism design award in 1984 from the Minister of Tourism, Mike Moore. Quantity: 1 bag of game pieces. Physical Description: Green felt drawstring bag, 110 x 60 mm, tied with leather cord; wooden hand-marked die and four polished coloured stone counters

Date: 2018

Reference: Eph-F-GAME-2018-01

Description: Board game contains die, rules of play, sheets explaining the historical background, large map, sheet about the effects of terrain on movement and combat, comat results table, alliance negotiations table, battle dispatches report chart, bush raider map. There are tewn scenarios that can be re-enacted, from various years of the Wars, from 1845 to 1872. Quantity: 1 boxed board game. Physical Description: Offset prints, die, in lidded box 300 x 228 x 40 mm.

Date: 2005

By: Centre de Documentation Pedagogique de Nouvelle-Caledonie

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-2005-01

Description: A board game developed in New Caledonia, involving a game board, dice, and question cards. Other Titles - Prison game; lives of prisoners in New Caledonia Quantity: 1 boxed game. Physical Description: Cards, counters, dice, board, in box, 302 x 425 x 45 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2006.

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Gospel Publishing House (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1960s-04

Description: Indoor game containing 96 questions and answers based on Bible texts. One player drawers a ticket and reads the question. The player with the answer should call out the number corresponding to that on the ticket. The first player to fill his answer sheet with matching question tickets is the winner. Box lid shows a photograph of three children playing the game at a table. Date estimated from style of children's hair and clothing. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Cardboard box with removable lid, 160 x 235 x 32 mm, containing 16 card sheets, and 96 small labels

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Gospel Publishing House (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1960s-05

Description: Indoor game containing 96 questions and answers based on Bible texts. One player drawers a ticket and reads the question. The player with the answer should call out the number corresponding to that on the ticket. The first player to fill his answer sheet with matching question tickets is the winner. Box lid shows a photograph of three children playing the game at a table. Date estimated from style of children's hair and clothing. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Cardboard box with removable lid, 158 x 235 x 25 mm, containing 16 card sheets, and 96 small labels

Date: 1955 - 1959

By: National Safety Association of New Zealand; Digest Printing Company

Reference: Eph-C-ELECTRICITY-1955-01

Description: A board game of 50 squares along which one moved a counter. The smiling figure of Mr Safety Watt is at the right, his body composed of a lightbulb topped by a plug, the latter's three prongs making up his eyes and nose. The rate of one's moves around the board depended upon safe or unsafe electrical practices. The other side shows four dangerous scenarios including mending one's own electrical cords, using broken plugs, going near overhead wires, and touching fallen wires. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of green paper, 230 x 305 mm.

Date: 1989 - 1993

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1989-01

Description: Board game in which one tries to amass the greatest value of prizes by correctly answering various general knowledge questions. The first person to press the buzzer in response to the question, has the first chance to answer it. The 128-page instruction book contains all the questions. The box lid shows a photograph of Steve Parr, the quizmaster of the New Zealand version of the show, 1989-1995. Game is based on the New Zealand version of an Australian television quiz show, aired 14 July 1980 to 29 November 2001. The New Zealand version featuring Steve Parr as the quizmaster, screened 1989-1995. Quantity: 1 boxed board game. Physical Description: Games board 560 x 560 mm, instruction booklet, 6 electronic buzzers, set of cards representing product; all in box 290 x 565 x 50 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1993.

Date: 2012

By: New Zealand Aid Programme

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-2012-01

Description: Board game for two to four players. The player moves around the board according to throws of the die. Gains and losses are made when one lands on a ladder or a waterfall. Messages stress the importance of financial planning and wise spending and saving. Sponsors are: New Zealand Aid Programme, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, and Australian Aid. Quantity: 1 board game. Physical Description: Offset print on card board 297 x 420 mm, folded to 297 x 210 mm, with die and four coloured plastic game pieces Provenance: Donated in 2013.

Date: 1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating games, mainly indoors or playground games]

By: Hutcheson Bowman & Johnson Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-GAME-1969-01

Description: Booklet contains pages set up for a game similar to "Battleships", where one guesses the location of the boats of one's opponent. Similar to the game "Smash the Nazi navy" earlier published by Hutcheson, Bowman & Stewart. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 155 x 121 mm.

Date: 1997

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1997-01

Description: Board game based on a cricket game, with instruction sheet, counters and dice. Box also contains an advertisement flyer for Willows Super Series Cricket with 18 magnetised handcrafted pewter playing pieces. Endorsed by New Zealand Cricket. Quantity: 1 boxed board game. Physical Description: Boxed game with playing board, scorepad, dice, counters; box dimensions 315 x 460 x 450 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barbara Lyon in 2014.

Date: 1976 - 2010

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1976-03

Description: Set of the Xultun tarot codex, with instruction sheet and 78 cards of the higher and lower arcana. The designs are influenced by Maya iconography. Quantity: 1 set of cards. Physical Description: Offset prints on cards, in lidded box, 127 x 84 x 30 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2014.

Date: 2007 - 2008

By: Museo dei Tarocchi (Riola, Italy)

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-2008-01

Description: Set of cards, and explanatory sheet. The cards are by Australian and New Zealand artists: Pat Reble (Australia), Keron Smith (NZ), Aileen Flynn (Australia), Jason Dean (Australia), Louise Sadgrove (NZ), Fern mercier (NZ), Melanie Cook (Australia), Helen Meinecke (Australia), Catherine Ballantyne (NZ), Claudia Pond Eyley (NZ), Ben Scott (Australia), Bron Deed (NZ), Kaz Blennerhassett (NZ), Sarah McKenney (NZ), Linde Rosenberg (NZ), Roisin Kearney (NZ?), Maia Mayo (NZ), Lyn Howarth-Olds and Scott Olds (NZ), Lynda Robinson (NZ?) One of a printer's run of 300; the handwritten number may be 127. Quantity: 1 set of cards. Physical Description: 22 offset prints, each 120 x 70 mm, in folder 135 x 76 x 15 mm, tied closed with gauze ribbon Provenance: Purchased in 2014.

Date: 2013

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-2013-01

Description: A set of 58 oracle cards and a guidebook, "honoring the New Zealand Maori tradition of seeking guidance and advice from our ancestors and loved ones who reside beyond the veil". Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Box of cards and guidebook, 230 x 153 x 42 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2014.

Date: 1959

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1959-01/02

Description: Housie board shows the numbers 1 to 90, in 9 rows of ten numbers each, inside recesses formed by holes in the top layer of cardboard. The pink booklet of housie tickets shows the "Warrior" stationery logo on the cover. The price 9/9 (nine shillings and ninepence) is written in pencil at top right. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of housie tickets, with pink cover 224 x 274 mm, and double-layer cardboard Housie board, 273 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Southward Museum, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1989, and Photographic Archive..

By: General Foods (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CONFECTIONERY-1960s-01

Description: Board game in which counters are moved along numbered squares, the distance moved probably determined by dice throws. Illustrations show Luigi the moustachioed food technologies, children eating icecream, stars, rockets, and pipes, etc. The verso has text describing the making of icecream, its ingredients and its packaging. Originally may have been cut from a larger packet. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on light card, 450 x 265 mm, originally folded in half. Provenance: Donated by the Moxon family in 2016.