Electrified board game

A board game defines a plurality of playing positions in the form of a gridwork including a plurality of discrete, electrically isolated, metal frames, each frame enclosing one of the playing positions and supporting a translucent coextensive window. Playing pieces, some being of different types, are movable between playing positions in accordance with a predetermined pattern dependent upon their type and influenced by the locations of other playing pieces. A regulating system selectively alters a sensible characteristic at each of the playing positions to thereby alter an attribute of a playing piece which lands on a certain one of the playing positions. This is done by successively illuminating each of the playing positions by means of one or more colored electric lamps or by providing no illumination at all. The regulating system has a first operating mode for manually altering the illumination at each of the playing positions and a second operating mode for randomly altering the illumination at each of the playing positions. The regulating system also includes touch circuitry responsive to sequential touches by a user to operate, in sequence, a first lamp alone at a playing position, then a second lamp alone at that playing position, then no lamp at that playing position. The regulating system can also randomly operate the lamps at the playing positions, and is also capable of adjusting the time interval between random operations and the random number generating means and the number of the playing positions subject to such random operations.