If there appears to be a bias towards cricket in these posts, it is purely accidental. This game was a new one to me when I found it, and has a very attractive cover design, so it is worth describing.
The game is played on a cardboard pitch with a set of stumps illustrated at about a quarter of the way in from each end. There are red numbered spots (1-6) in front of the stumps, and these have the numbers 1-6 printed on them, with lines linking each of those numbers to a score or penalty. The bowling side throws a die to determine which of the red spots is used by the bowler, and the bowler then throws the die to discover the effect, which is based on the scores and ways of getting out in the real game. The instructions are pasted inside the lid and unusually contain what appears to be an error, describing the right hand end of the pitch when the left was intended, but it is a minor problem.
The box is printed by chromolithography, but not the board.
I would suggest that the game dates from the late 1920s or early 1930s.
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