When I was a kid - so, late '70’s or early '80’s - we had a game at home that I can’t remember the name of - and I also can’t seem to describe it well enough to productively Google search for it. I’m wondering if anyone might happen to recall it.
It was a two-player game, in which each player tried to blindly navigate a maze created by his opponent. First one to finish wins (I guess).
Pre-start, each player built a maze on his own plastic “board” which was basically a grid of squares - maybe 10x10. Boundaries between the squares were marked by slots in the plastic, and a player would create his maze by inserting thin plastic rectangles into the slots to make walls. Each player’s maze was kept hidden from his opponent by a screen of some kind.
During play, each player had a second board on which he navigated by trial and error (“I try to move to Square B3,” or something like that) and duplicated details of his opponent’s maze as he discovered them. I think there were little transparent red plastic circles that were used to mark progress.
Does this description - vague as it is - ring any bells?
It sounds an awful like you’re doing a really bad job of remembering Battleship.
I’m guessing that’s not it because, while I’ve never heard of the game you’re describing, I can picture what you’re explaining, but I just thought I’d toss Battleship out there since it works on pretty much the same premise (and I’m surprised you didn’t mention it).
Pathfinder?
Never heard of it, but someone else asked the exact same question a while back and using Battleship as a search term helped narrow it down.
Bumping this thread to say I was just now trying to remember the name of this game, too. Couldn’t find it after a few internet searches. Finally I put “1970’s board game build maze like battleship” into Google, and lo and behold but what appears? This thread.
Small world.
How many times do I need to be shown to DUH! start with The Dope first.
