Games for Research: Morality

Many Morality games were games of chance, often variations of The Game of the Goose, and therefore required no skill or knowledge.  However, the sense of progression inherent in the game could be used by publishers for didactic purposes, representing a path towards good or a progression through the vicissitudes of life to self-knowledge. The New Game of Human Life published by John Wallis and E. Newbury in 1790 has many pitfalls on the way to the Immortal Man. JJColl: Games folder (1)

The Mirror of Truth (John Wallis,1811) exhibits "a variety of biographical anecdotes and moral essays, calculated to inspire a love of virtue and abhorrence of vice."

These games are moral and ethical rather than BIblical. The Bible was surely considered too sacred to be the object of levity. JJColl: Games folder (43)