A moral board game intended for a young audience, in which players progress through the stages of life with spins of a teetotum. A warning from the publishers at the bottom of the game board discourages the use of dice, since they were too closely related to gambling. Instructions are printed in the center and margins of the board, and the game consists of 84 hand-colored engravings, each with a title, arranged in a spiraling path. According to Osborne, the game was modeled after "Le Nouveau Jeu de la vie Humaine", published in Paris in 1775 by Crépy. Seven periods of life, of twelve years each, are represented in the game. The game was intended to develop a child's moral character, as each square of the board along the path of life contains either a positive or negative occupation or personality trait. The publishers' instructions encourage the parents or instructors of the children playing the game to "cause them to stop at each character and request their attention to a few moral and judicious observations, explanatory of each character as they proceed and contrast the happiness of a virtuous and well spent life with the fatal consequences arising from vicious and immoral pursuits." The ultimate goal is to reach the "Immortal Man," who has existed 84 years, seems worthy by his Talents & Merit to become a Model for the Close of Life, which can end only by Eternity." The engraved sheet is divided into sixteen panels and mounted on a flexible linen backing so that the game board could be folded up without damage. A well-played example which shows moderate soiling, heaviest in the lower margins; linen backing mildly foxed and showing some finger soiling  to the area around the finger-pull. In the original slipcase, which shows some soiling and wear.