Aggravation Board Views
Originally marketed in 1962 as a game for children, families soon realized that everyone enjoyed playing the fast paced, roll and move marble game. Before the introduction of the Aggravation game by the CO-5 Company of Benton Harbor, Michigan, families in the Appalachian Mountains and Southwestern parts of the United States played the game Wahoo on handcrafted wooden boards. A member of the cross and circle family of games, Wahoo is generally a very strategic and intense game. When Aggravation was introduced by CO-5, it was based on a simplified version of Wahoo and played with Parcheesi style rules.
Although the rules of the game are the same, newer editions of the Aggravation game board are different from the older editions. On older game boards, the playing field is formed in a symmetrical shape similar to an asterisk. On the newer editions of the game, there are still the same number of spaces for each player, but the symmetry of the game board has been replaced with different shapes and irregular patterns for each of the players.
Many Aggravation game players prefer to play on beautiful wooden game boards that are hand crafted in a variety of exquisite woods. These types of game boards are offered from The Unique Home and Garden Shoppe in 18 and 20 inch octagonal shapes that are hand rubbed for added beauty. The game boards are crafted in the following woods, with or without, birch inlays:
Aggravation is a board game for up to six players in which the object is to be the first player to have all four playing pieces (usually represented by marbles) reach the player's home section of the board. The game's name comes from the action of capturing an opponent's piece by landing on its space, which is known as aggravating.
Aggravation Board Images
