I'm looking for a board game form the 40's to late 50's that features a wooden map of the world and oil wells

Question

If you can think of the title, that would be great. I'm told that it was a shallow wooden box with wooden pieces that you shake up to disperse through the game board. Then, you would buy land to drill oil wells upon. Sound like anything?

Answer 1

As for the game another poster mentioned, "King Oil", it came out in 1974, and full details can be had on that game here:

   http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2608 including detailed pictures are posted here:

   http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/game...

I don't think this is your game.

As for your game, try looking around http://www.boardgamegeek.com , which is the internet's best site for boardgame information.  You can search by partial game name, by category of game, etc.  I tired "wooden map" in the forums but nothing obvious popped out.  As for "Oil" in the game title here is a game from 1960 called "Oil: The Great Adventure":

   http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/12237

and pictures here

   http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/game...

Is this your game?

Hope this helps.  Good luck.

Answer 2

I don't know about the wooden game from that era, but when I was a kid we used to play a game called King Oil, I think. But I thought it came out in the 70's. But you definitely drilled for oil. Maybe its an earlier version of that game. You could do a search on it.