You can watch a how-to-play video or read a 1970 variation guide .

The 1963 Mousetrap board game, created by Hank Kramer for Ideal Toy Company, challenges two to four players to build a complex Rube Goldberg-style contraption while capturing opponents' mice. Participants move around the board collecting cheese, assembling the machine piece-by-piece, and ultimately using the crank mechanism to trigger the trap on competitors.