Wallis’s New Game of Genius

The game board is printed on paper, hand colored, and cut into nine pieces, which are glued onto linen paper to make a durable, foldable board. The image shows various experiments, scientific instruments, and recent inventions, such as the microscope, hot air balloon, and printing press, arranged on a path circling the board. The central image celebrates steam transport, showing a steamship on a river while overhead a train traverses the water by viaduct. For educational games like this one, players move around the board by spinning a teetotum and answering questions dictated by the "descriptive booklet" according to the space where they land.