Of all the board games I'm likely to cover on this blog, none is as weird as Mouse Trap. Oh sure, you may think Candy Land, with it's sentient candy inhabitants or even The Game of Life, where you utilize escapism to...not escape from reality, would be stranger, but Mouse Trap really is probably the single most unique board game in existence, solely because of how it was designed. It's a board game where the board is basically secondary. It's simply a thing for the rest of the game to sit on top of. Because, really, Mouse Trap is the contraption, not the board. And while the board is cool looking, no matter what variation or changes they make to it (though of course classic is always the best in most cases), I'll argue that it's still secondary to the rest of the pieces that really make up what Mouse Trap is. Created in 1963, it was one of the first mass produced three dimensional board games. Working together, players are to build a Rube Goldberg type trap, whi...