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Put on your thinking caps, have as many guesses as you want – and most of all, have fun. Your time starts …. NOW!
Spoiler alert: do not read any further unless you want the answer revealed.
Solved by UK-based Red Bubbler Ellis Morley Photo, who identified it as the base of a plastic frame for a Connect Four/ Connect 4 game.
Question 2: Which commercial board game, released by Waddingtons in 1938 was based on an actual British horse race?
Question 3: Released in 2008, what is the name of the spin-off from the board game Cluedo (or Clue in the US and Canada)? Solved by UK-based Red Bubbler Ellis Morley Photo, who answered “Cluedo: Discover the Secrets”.
I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO 800, focal length 125mm.
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Is it made of plastic?
Hi Betty, yes, it is indeed made of plastic. Nice work.
– David McMahon
Is it some kind of track?
As in train track, or car track?
– David McMahon
Chair support, table support (picnic style ones not heavy duty of course!)
Not chairs or tables. In fact, here’s a big clue – it’s got nothing to do with furniture.
– David McMahon
No… It’s a CONNECT 4 frame.
BINGO – well solved, Ellis. I’ll post your link, post a follow-up question – and you can now ask us a question as well!
– David McMahon
(visual puzzles would love this btw!)
Okey-dokey, Ellis. Will submit it, on your advice!
– David McMahon
Is it a track for toy cars looping around?
No, Betty, but see Ellis’s comments above – and stand by for the fun of the follow-up questions!
– David McMahon
I recognised the ridges when I looked properly! :-) And that group was MADE for your weekly puzzles ;-)
Follow up question, eh? OK… ::will be right back::
Nice detective work, Ellis – I thought it would take a while to crack this!
– David McMahon
1. steeplechase??
2. murder mystery? CSI 1940s?
1. Not steeplechase – it was based, I think on the Lincolnshire Handicap race. Will give a clue when you want it.
2. Nope, and nope. Again, will give a clue when requested!
– David McMahon
OK… MB was sadly taken over by giant corporation Hasbro in 1984 but in what year was…
1. Was it post-war?
2. In 1934.