Lizzie Borden Society Forum

I have to ask before i do this projekt...

Is there any game (bord games) om the Lizzie theme. And if so, are some one still selling it (and how is it)?

I have to ask, me and a friend came up with an perfect ide for a Lizzie game (inspierd by a game called The Orient Express, dont know if its sold in the US but its from the book/film with the same namne). But before I make realaty of this ide and then try to sell it, i have to know if Iam really the first.

I dont think i would be any problem with the copyrigth, do you? (or is that the reson the band and the wrestling manager Lizzy Borden can´t spell?)

Sounds like a neat idea Jimmy, altho it probably wouldn't hurt to have a stand-by name ready just in case there *is* a copyright problem somewhere.

There is some sort of "Road to Maplecroft" game. I am not sure that is the correct name....

I would love a Lizzie game-- but would have reservations as to whether it would have universal appeal.

The game is much like a book. The game have 10 diffrent endings. In all storys you can "Talk" to the main characters (read card on that the have to say) and serch all the rooms and outside (on card).

Each story is diffrent, the murder is diffrent and the motive is diffrent. So to win its not enuff just to pick the rigth murder.

And the whole thing is om the. You play a reporter who comes there just after Lizzie send Bridget to Dr Bowen, so you have to cloxe the case before the police comes.


I have never heard about "Road to Maplecroft", but i would love it if you colud tell me a littel about it.

Hi Jimmy, I think the game is a great idea, I know
my son and his friends and I never tired of the game of "Clue". As Audrey suggests, to make a
universal following, maybe tone down the Lizzie theme and make it more generic. (there are sure a
lot of murders to fashion it about) Good Luck Jimmy!

I always thought it would be great if they did a Monopoly Borden game, after all they have bought out many different versions from The Wizard Of Oz to Coronation Street, so a Lizzie Borden one would be great!

I understand that there is a board game somewhere.

I think the game would be a wonderful idea! I like the Clue idea that each time you come up with a different suspect as the murderer.

I heard there is a game out there that isn't actually being produced yet but may be heading that way. I heard it stinks. (Sorry, but I have.)

I wouldn't think you'd have trouble with any copyrights. Unless you actually saw the wanna-be game and you took your ideas from it - which would be doubtful since it allegedly stinks.

I don't know if a company would take it on. The board game business is hard to crack. Plus, as Audrey says, will its appeal be universal enough? Also, game publishers may think the subject matter inappropriate - like one is glorifying a murderer.

If you make a game and you truly believe it has potential, you can pay to have it manufactured (not cheap) and sell it yourself.

I have a rummy-style Jack the Ripper card game: Mystery Rummy Case #1. I don't know if they ever got to Lizzie or not.

Just checked, and they haven't. The other 3 are Rue Morgue, Jekyll/Hyde, and Capone and Chicago Underworld--seems they shifted away from true murder to mystery fiction and gangsters.

--Lyddie

Interesting that you should mention Jack the Ripper. The Ripper murders occurred in 1888 only 4 years previous to the Borden killings Other than the particularly violent and brutal methods of killing they have little in common.

But what I find peculiar is that of all the contemporary newspaper accounts of the Borden murders I have read, only one, the Aug. 7, 1892 NY Herald, makes any reference to the Ripper murders.

"As someone has aptly said, had Lizzie and John Morse been so anxious to have the old people out of the way that they decided upon murder they would have killed their victims genteelly, instead of lending to the scene that Jack the Ripper aspect which marked it."

That's it. Some of the authors of books on the Borden case make reference to the Ripper murders. Kent begins his book "Forty Whacks" that way. Pearson refers to them in his "Trial of L.B." A few others as well. Spiering actually wrote a book ("Prince Jack") on the Ripper case. But none of these are contemporary with the Borden murders.

I'm not suggesting the Ripper moved to Fall River but just find it interesting there was little or no mention of perhaps the most famous murders of the Victorian age.

The Borden case, I've read, is like the most famous case there is - I've read "except for Jack the Ripper" or words to that effect.

I've also read that in 1892, the Borden case was the first one where the coverage was like instantly telegraphed all over the world. That is one reason they give for its fame.

Maybe in 1888 there wasn't the technology to spread the news like wildfire, like there would be in 1892.