To his surprise, the game was an overnight success and during that winter, Bradley sold more than 40,000 copies of his game. ” Along the way, players could land on squares like “School,” “Poverty,” “Bravery” and “Idleness.” They would begin on the “Infancy” tile at the bottom left of the board and make their way toward “Happy Old Age.” “The game represents, as indicated by the name, the checkered journey of life,” Bradley wrote in “Rules of the Game. However, his luck changed when one day, while playing a board game with one of his friends, Bradley suddenly came up with an idea for a game of his own that would simulate a person’s life.Ĭalled “The Checkered Game of Life” and featuring a board of 64 squares, players used a spinner to move their “counter” across the board. When Lincoln won the presidential election that same year in 1860, he decided to grow out his beard, plummeting the value of Bradley’s large stock of Lincoln lithographs. With the skills he developed there, Bradley started his own lithography business four years later and found unexpected success creating a lithograph of (then clean-shaven) presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. ![]() By 1856, he had traveled to Springfield, Massachusetts, and landed a job as a mechanical draftsman. Instead, following in the footsteps of his father, he originally trained as a craftsman. ![]() ![]() Though National Inventors Hall of Fame ® (NIHF) Inductee Milton Bradley ’s name has become synonymous with the company responsible for creating some of America’s most beloved games, including Twister ®, Battleship ® and The Game of Life ®, while growing up during the mid-1800s, Bradley had no intention of pursuing a business in creating games.
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