Cherry Ames' Nursing Game
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Cherry Ames' Nursing Game, or Cherry Ames: A Nurses' Training Game is a 1959 Parker Brothers
roll-and-move track board game for 2 to 6 players. It was based on the Cherry Ames
juvenile series of mysteries written by Helen Wells
and Julie Campbell Tatham, and published by Grosset & Dunlap
. The game was one of the few games in American board game history to depict women in a generally positive way.
Players move their tokens through maze-like corridors and hospital rooms collecting six colored rings as they do so. They then attempt to leave the board at the space marked 'Graduate'. The first to leave the board is the winner. The game is complicated by bumping players either forward or backward, instructional cards such as "You have stumbled onto the secret of the "Broom Closet"! Take any ring from the board", and "Dr. Wylie said to Cherry, "Wipe that rouge off your face!" Move back four spaces".
Parker Brothers
Parker Brothers is a toy and game manufacturer and brand. Since 1883, the company has published more than 1,800 games; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo , Sorry, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Ouija, Aggravation, and Probe...
roll-and-move track board game for 2 to 6 players. It was based on the Cherry Ames
Cherry Ames
Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-7 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham , the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8-16. Wells also created the Vicki...
juvenile series of mysteries written by Helen Wells
Helen Wells
Helen Wells was the author of nurse Cherry Ames books, a series for young teens. She wrote volumes #1-7 and #17-27. She was also the author of the first four Vicki Barr books and possibly the last Vicki Barr book.- External links :***...
and Julie Campbell Tatham, and published by Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a United States book publisher founded in 1898.The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of the British publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC through its American subsidiary Penguin Group....
. The game was one of the few games in American board game history to depict women in a generally positive way.
Game play
The object of the game is to "travel around the board, which represents the various phases of hospital training, obtain six rings, and be the first to graduate." The introduction states:"In this game each player becomes a student nurse and takes the many phases of hospital training to win finally the treasured "cap" and become a full-fledged nurse."
Players move their tokens through maze-like corridors and hospital rooms collecting six colored rings as they do so. They then attempt to leave the board at the space marked 'Graduate'. The first to leave the board is the winner. The game is complicated by bumping players either forward or backward, instructional cards such as "You have stumbled onto the secret of the "Broom Closet"! Take any ring from the board", and "Dr. Wylie said to Cherry, "Wipe that rouge off your face!" Move back four spaces".