Trying to remember a book I read ...

[Snorkel]

All these threads about Harry Potter have got me thinking again of another YA book I read back in '97, and I cannot remember the name.  The book was in new condition, but not sure if that's when it was first published.

 

It was about a kid (boy maybe?).  An old man gives him a magical board game, and he gets sucked into it, has to do things on the different squares to win/get out.  The old man may have been his grandfather, or a friend's grandfather?

Edit: Possibly one of the game squares/locations was a large building like a bank.

 

I vaguely remember a scene (in the real world) where the kid gets invited to the birthday party of a rich brat kid.  The rich brat kid has an amazing house with some kind of super play room which is accessed by a trapdoor in the ceiling.

I can't remember whether the brat went into the board game world with the main kid or not.

 

It was not Jumanji.

 

Anyone recognise my vague memories?

Edited April 19, 2020 by Snorkel

[Ixthos]

@Snorkel Is it any of the entries in literature on this page? There are quiet a few of them ....

Either way I hope this helps!

[Snorkel]

Thanks, it's none of those. :<

[Zelly]

Here's some maybes: 

https://www.goodreads.com/series/82168-space-demons-trilogy

 

 

[Snorkel]

Nope, it's a board game, not a video game.  Thanks though.

 

Loved the Space Demons trilogy when I was younger.

 

 

My next step is to go into storage and see if I wrote about the book in my teenage diary.  I don't want to read my teenage diary D:

Edit: Nope, didn't start my diary until a year later.

Edited April 25, 2020 by Snorkel