Cheyenne (board game)
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| Cheyenne | |
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 Milton Bradley game board Cheyenne. |
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| Publisher | Milton Bradley Company |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Age range | 7-14 |
| Setup time | 2 minutes |
| Playing time | 30 minutes/random |
| Random chance | High (luck) |
| Skills required | Reading/Counting/Physical Dexterity |
Cheyenne Game is a Milton Bradley track board game based on the 1957 Golden Globe Award winning western television series Cheyenne (1955-1962) starring Clint Walker. Players advance along the track from Cheyenne's Corral to the Pony Express Station while "shooting" various obstacles on the track.
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[edit] Object of the game
The object of the game is to be the first player to reach the Express Station.
[edit] Equipment
- 1 folding, center-seamed track game board illustrated with western scenes
- 4 counters (one each red, yellow, blue, green)
- 4 plastic "revolvers" (one each of red, yellow, blue, green)
- 4 plastic disks used as "bullets"
- 6 standing "obstacles" (rattlesnake, horse thief, bandit, Indian warrior, rustler, bank robber) with plastic bases
- 1 dial numbered 1 through 6 attached to the platform
[edit] Set up
The game board is opened and set on a flat surface. Each player selects a counter and a plastic revolver of the same color. The order of play is then decided by the highest spin on the dial.
[edit] Play
Each player moves in turn along the track in accordance with his spin on the dail. He must stop and "shoot" an obstacle when he reaches a space with a gun on it, even if his spin would have carried him beyond the gun space. The player sets the obstacle up on its corresponding illustration (Rattlesnake on the snake picture, for example) and removes all other counters from the game board. The player places one of the plastic disks ("bullets") on the orange circle in the lower left hand corner of the game board, then uses his plastic revolver in the fashion of a tiddledy wink to "shoot" the disk at the obstacle. He must move or knock over the obstacle with the disk in order to advance on the track. Each player must shoot all 6 obstacles before attempting to enter the Pony Express Station at the end of the track.
[edit] Winning the game
The game is won when one player defeats all 6 obstacles on the game board and enters the Express Station by an exact spin on the dial.
[edit] History
The game is copyright dated 1958 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. A second edition was released during Clint Walker's dispute with Warner Bros. that featured Bronco star Ty Hardin on the box cover. Cheyenne was one of many board games published during the late 1950s based on television programs.
[edit] Cheyenne, the television program
Cheyenne is a Warner Bros. western television program broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long western and the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties. The series follows the adventures of a drifter named Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker) in the west following the Civil War. The television show generated books, comic books and other juvenile merchandise.
