The Game Pieces for the Game Operation

Series Summary

The board game Operation tests your hand-eye coordination with a serious of “operations” you must perform on the unfortunate “Cavity Sam” in an effort to out-earn your fellow doctors and specialists. Released by Milton Bradley in 1965, it is a board game which uses battery-operated, wire loop electronics to give the player a startling buzz when the Operation goes wrong. The players pull Doctor and Specialist cards from a stack, directing them to remove tiny plastic ailments from cavities in Sam's body with a steady hand. If the tweezers touch the sides of the cavity, the board gives a buzzing sound and making the patient's nose light up red. If the buzzer sounds, the player has lost his or her turn, and the winner is the player with the most money wins.

In this series of free videos you'll get step-by-step instructions on how to play the game of Operation. Expert Melissa Schenk demonstrates all aspects of the game, from the equipment you'll use, the rules and objective of the game, preparation tips, and advice on how to win the game. She shows you all of the game pieces, down to the broken heart, and how to use the doctor and specialist cards. Once you understand these basic rules, you'll have hours of fun perfecting you surgery skills.

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to learn how to play the game Operation. So in our first clip, let's go over the contents of the package. Let's start off with the contents of the package itself. Of course, we have our game board with Cavity Sam, our patient. And you can't perform surgery without your trusty tweezers. Now, we have 26 cards. They are either the doctor cards or the specialist cards. We'll get into more detail on those in an upcoming clip. We also have 12 fun anatomy parts that you'll be fishing around for in Cavity Sam in a later time. We'll talk about that as well. We also have some play money and rubber band that is also one of the parts too. Now that we've gone over the package contents, in our upcoming clip let's talk about the object of the game."