Séance: The Voice From The Great Beyond by Milton Bradley (1972)
I loved this game sooooo much! It was super fun just getting to set up this 3 dimensional game and looking at the haunted victorian mansion that lay before you!
The best part was definitely the Seance table and record player inside that conveyed ghostly messages from beyond….How cool is that? It was so spooky with the lights out that it would feel kind of real and get your goose bumps growing once you received “The Voice From The Great Beyond”
The players are the nieces and nephews of old Uncle Everett who had passed on and left a most peculiar will. For old Uncle Everett was a spiritualist… that is, he believed his spirit would come back and guide the distribution of his wealth. In his will, he requested his nieces and nephews to come back to a seance in his old Victorian mansion. He left each one $20,000 and a chance to make more or lose some. The object of the Séance Game is to outwit rich Uncle Everett and win the most money.
After assembling the cardboard Séance room, props, and chairs, you couldn’t help (as I said earlier) but play with the best prop in the game! The Séance table was irresistible! Within the plastic table, the record would spin that contained the voice of our dear departed Uncle Everett. By activating a switch on the side of the table, Uncle Everett conveyed his messages from The Great Beyond. The messages were randomly played each time the switch was activated. (Of course everybody was more concerned with getting to hit the switch on the record player than actually playing the game but it was a HAUNTING good time just the same!)
All players would bid against each other for the privilege of receiving a “message” from the record. The highest bidder obeyed Uncle Everett’s wishes. The voice may give you Aunt Zelda’s portrait, or perhaps nothing at all.
When the game was over and the room was plunged into darkness, it is said that the image of Uncle Everett may be seen. At the end of the game you would shut the lights off for that sudden feeling of FEAR and PANIC and Uncle Everett’s Face was GLOWING madly as it was secretly hidden under Aunt Zeldas portrait that hung on the wall. Somebody would secretly take Aunt Zelda’s portrait of the wall during the lights out confusion and reveal Uncle Everett who’s come back from the GREAT BEYOND!
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