MouseTrap

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A game in which your mice progress around the board, building a TomAndJerry? style mousetrap.

Then, for some reason, they go in a tiny little circle attempting to land on the square that triggers the trap whilst an enemy is on the square the trap lands on.

The actual BoardGame bit is a bit pointless - single track with occasional 'go back three squares' type stuff. The fun part is the building of the machine.

Sadly, there is no insurance that the machine is built before the tiny loop bit begins. Nor do all meeces reach the loop bit at even roughly the same time.

The first point there doesn't matter, as the tiny loop does contain a "add a piece to the machine" space as well as the cheese and the "trigger the trap" button.

: Yes - but the little loop is even more boring than the main board. (To elaborate - this is bad because you can end up spending as long on the little wheel as you did on the rest of the board, and while all the meece but one are on it it's pretty obvious who will win and whilst on it it is very obviously down to 'roll the die, next players turn'.)

Winning the game is purely down the luck of the dice, and then the machine malfunctions and the little diver fails to trigger the wobbly bit that starts the cage falling.

And this is part of the point as well. The machine is deliberately rather unreliable, so at best it'll only achieve 50-60% success rate. So if you're on the cheese and someone hits the button, you still have hope.

: Really? We always just reset it until it worked. Even then, it never really came off with panache - if it was sensitive enough that the little diver could trigger the cage then moving your mice usually did it too. Then again, sometimes the whole thing falls over and manages to trap the mouse that trigger it, rather than the mice underneath it. Which is funny.

Still, a terribly amusing waste of time. Until you inevitably lose one of the little bits.