#ladies game night

The Heiress and Her Suitors: adapted for the play of eight persons, or a less number, wherein much amusement and speculation is produced.

It’s game time ladies! Discover your path to true love in this 1830s board game. Eight admirers compete to win the hand of the heiress. Perhaps a peer is your type? Or maybe a dandy or a squire? A sailor, soldier, lawyer, parson, and doctor are additional options. Each suitor is assigned a separate path to the heiress. 

Each path starts with a bit of 19th c. humor. Courtship with the doctor begins with a heartache, the lawyer with “a brief suit,” and the parson with “a humble prayer.” Stages along the relationship path include agitation, displeasure, hope, disappointment, (more) agitation, hesitation, anger, and fear. Despite the clear rockiness of the relationship, the heiress always accepts her suitor in the end.

The game’s cover includes sketches of the dashing fellows.