Like many Christian-themed games of the middle 19th-century, "The Mansion of Happiness" lost some of its popularity in the last decades of the 19th century. It was then that games with secular and materialistic themes such as Milton Bradley's "The Checkered Game of Life" rose in demand. In literature, "The Mansion of Happiness" is mentioned in the boys' book "Shifting for Himself; or, Gilbert Greyson's Fortunes" (1876) by Horatio Alger, Jr. In this story, the title hero plays the game with friends Laura and Fred Vivian to while away the evening hours. In 2012 the game board was available on-line in a color reprint of the original. 