Mystery Date is a board game circa 1965 from the Milton Bradley company, conceived by none other than the man who's become this blogs apparent nemesis, Marvin Glass, and created by Henry Stan. A confusing contradiction, as "conceived" often means "created", so I'm not sure how to parse that exactly, but whatever. It's marketed to girls 6 to 14 years of age, and is overall a fairly popular board game in pop culture, often showing up as a trope or reference in things. Basically the object of the game is to acquire a desirable date from a group of men, all while avoiding "the dud". These men include the Formal Dance date, the Bowling Date, the Skiing Date and the Beach Date. I'm unsure what kind of climate the people in this game live in, because if you're able to go skiing, that means it's too cold to go to the beach, so unless they live in something akin to Springfield, their temperatures make no sense whatsoever. But why nitpick a g...