JAY'S RETRO TOYS & GAMES EPISODE 18: TROUBLE & HEADACHE

Trouble (known as Frustration in the UK and Kimble in Finland) is a board game in which players compete to be the first to send four pieces all the way around a board. Pieces are moved according to the roll of a die using a contained device called a "Pop-O-Matic". Trouble was developed by the Kohner Brothers and initially manufactured by Irwin Toy Ltd., later by Milton Bradley (now part of Hasbro). The game was launched in America in 1965.[1] The classic version is now marketed by Winning Moves Games USA.[2] The gameplay, board, and concept is derivative of the Indian board game Ludo. [3]

A similar game called Headache was also produced by the Milton Bradley Company; besides a different track layout, its pawns are conical, in contrast to the cylindrical pieces used in Trouble.[4]

Headache is a board game for in which the object is to land a playing piece (known as "cones" or "men") on top of all opponents' pieces (to create "stacks"). Play moves in circles until one player has captured every other players' cones on the board and declared the winner. All players are welcome to occupy any space throughout the game, provided the die rolls allow, and there are eight spaces that serve as "safe" spots, where a cone resting on this space cannot be captured. Captured pieces are not sent back to start, but are permanently lost

Headache was first introduced in 1968 by the Kohner Brothers and was later manufactured by Milton Bradley. In the UK the game (called Game of Headache) was released in 1968 through Peter Pan Playthings.

By Box cover of board game "Trouble", published by Kohner Bros Inc, East Paterson, NJ 07407, USA in 1965, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44377492

By Peter Pan Playthings - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cover_of_Game_of_Headache_(UK_version).jpg - Photograph taken by "Londonclanger", Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70192242

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