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Rating:	3.3 Bad
Popularity:	1
Difficulty:	Very easy
Year:	1927
Players:	2-4 players
Playing time:	20 minutes
Age:	3+

Created by: William Schaper, J. H. W.

Published by: Basic Fun, Inc., Chad Valley Co Ltd., Direco AB

Alternate Names: Beetle, Beetle Drive, Beetle Game, The Beetle Game, Build a Beetle

Description:

Players race to construct a plastic bug, rolling a die to see which piece they get to add. The Hennepin History Museum states that the first Cootie game was designed by William H. Schaper in 1949.

However, Schaper's game was not the first based upon the insect known as the "cootie". The creature was the subject of several tabletop games, mostly pencil and paper games, in the decades of the twentieth century following World War I.

In 1927, the J. H. Warder Company of Chicago released Tu-Tee, and the Charles Bowlby Company released Cootie; though based on a "build a bug" concept similar to Schaper's, both were paper and pencil games.

Schaper's game was the first to employ a fully three dimensional, free-standing plastic cootie. Known in Australia as Creepy Critters and in the UK as Beetle Drive.

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Retail Price:	$16
Amazon:	$18
Ebay:	$18

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Cootie Game Rules

Components

Gameboard
4 Cootie bugs with parts
Cootie cube (die)
Label sheet

Object of the Game

Be first to create your own Cootie bug by rolling the Cootie cube to collect the parts you need: first the body, then the head, then all the other Cootie pieces. Hundreds of combinations are possible!

Setup

Carefully remove all the plastic parts from the runners. Throw away the plastic runners.
Press together two matching color halves of a Cootie body as shown in Figure 1. Then press together two matching color halves of a Cootie head. See Figure 2. Do the same for the other Cooties. â€¦

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