Sackson games and prototypes
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Prototype has no directions and consists of 2 sets of cardboard cards concerning "persuasion" and making deals. -
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Prototype has no directions and consists of a set of cardboard rectangles of various colors; many of them are pasted together so that there are different colors on both sides; many of the rectangles have a center sticker that is colored in with colored pencil. -
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Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 4 template cards; set of rectangular cardstock containing penciled text, symbols, and numbers; 4 index cards that appear to contain a "key" to the card set -
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Treasure Hunt
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: dilapidated cardboard box (discarded); 6 rectangular pieces of white cardboard, each numbered on the surface 1 through 9, some with cardboard triangles and squares glued to the surface; 6 plastic, colored playing pieces; 6 cardboard pieces folded into triangles; 6 pink cardstock "tickets"; set of cardstock cards marked with instructions in pencil; set of blue cardstock octagonal cards with a number and shape on each; set of vinyl-backed playing cards with characters and instructions; set of octagonal cardboard cards, yellow on one side and a colored map section on the other side -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: set of vinyl-backed custom playing cards with numbers/words neatly penciled in blue, green, or red; 6 yellow heavy cardboard rectangles labeled in black marker with "OUT" on one side and "PASS" on the other side; 5 draft sets of playing cards labeled in red, green, blue, black, or orange pencil -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions and consists of a set of cards with markings (mostly letters, some numbers) in yellow, green, blue, black, or red pencil. -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions and consists of vinyl-backed cards divided into blue, red, and green sets. Each card has a hand-drawn stick figure plus typed instructions. -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions and consists of 5 sets of cards, labeled in colored pencil (red, black, blue, green, and yellow); labels have to do with various types of fast foods; only non-food items mentioned are "Road Runner" and "Ernie." -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 10 plastic chips/tokens, 5 yellow and 5 green; 2 playing boards made of cardboard with cut-outs, which have sticker labels; 14 custom-made wooden dice with labeled stickers on each face -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 2 pieces of folded cardboard, one yellow and one green; round plastic chips/tokens in green and yellow; tiny wooden squares in dark blue and red; 2 cardboard gameboards, one marked Odd and the other Even, each contains a 6 x 8 grid of squares -
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Closing In
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: plastic bag (deteriorating; discarded); 4 plastic game pieces (red, green, blue, and yellow); round, black plastic chips/tokens; 4 cardboard rectangles (red, yellow, green, and blue) marked with labeled stickers: Odd on one side, Even on the other side -
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Levers of Power
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard gameboard containing 15 x 3 grid of squares; round plastic chips/tokens in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue; custom-made die with a colored square of vinyl on each face (to match the chips) -
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Five
Prototype contains the following items: plastic box with cardboard inserts; game directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); custom-made playing cards backed with vinyl; cards contain either words or geometric shapes; 4 cardstock templates; square cardboard cards in red, blue, or yellow, marked with numbers -
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Tele-Fun?
Prototype has no directions; it may be for Sackson's Tele-Fun game, designed as a training tool for AT&T information system sales representatives. Prototype contains the following items: plastic box and lid; 3 plastic playing pieces in red, blue, and yellow; square cardboard playing pieces, labeled in ink; rectangular action cards -
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Game prototype
Prototype has no directions; it consists of variously-shaped pieces of cardboard in yellow, purple, or blue, each with 2 holes and a numbered sticker. -
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Spellbinder
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box; 5 pages of handwritten notes (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 4 sets of vinyl-backed, custom-made playing cards containing letter and number combinations; miscellaneous cardstock cards and templates with cut-outs -
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String of Pearls
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box; light blue rectangular cards, all labeled "Trade"; brown and blue round chips/tokens, each labeled with a numbered sticker -
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Even Worse
Prototype contains the following items: puzzle directions and solution (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive), carboard box (taped around edges) with insert, 10 blue cardboard strips with pasted squares in various patterns -
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Miscellaneous items: 2 paper-covered pencil holders used as storage containers; 2 plastic chips/tokens, one blue and one yellow; set of yellow cardstock cards, all stamped "Forced Trade"; 2 sizes of cardboard cards, each with a dollar amount and "Bonus" -
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Colonel Mustard's Treasure Hunt
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 1 cardstock, taped layout of gameboard with pencil squares, lines, and labels; 1 cardboard, taped layout of gameboard with inked and penciled squares, circles, lines, and labels; 1 yellow, taped cardboard gameboard with inked lines, circles, and labels; glued prints of Egyptian sites cut from printed publications; several theme-related stickers also attached to gameboard; cardstock mock-ups of 8 character cards used in game; photocopies of mock-ups; custom-made inked and color-penciled character cards for game -
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The Fairy Tale Game
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 2 folding cardboard gameboards with taped edges; playing surface divided into 6 sections, each of which is divided into additional sections; inked lines and circles; color-penciled labels; plastic box containing small colored squares in red, blue, yellow, and green; 6 cardboard rectangles divided into smaller, labeled rectangles; 6 custom-made cardboard "reels," each with yellow cover attached by metal tab to white circle underneath, divided into sections representing film in actual view-master reels; plastic die -
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The Jungle Race
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: folding cardboard gameboard (in 2 separate pieces) with taped edges; playing surface contains squares with color-penciled labels; small plastic box containing 4 colored cardboard game pieces marked Lion, Antelope, Elephant, and Gorilla; paper envelope marked "Jungle Game" and imprinted "View-Master Picture Reels", envelope contains 4 view-master test reels (total 28 apertures with film) -
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8 miscellaneous, untitled gameboards, all cardboard, some with pencil markings, others with more finished designs and colors. -
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The Harry Lorayne Memory Game
Prototype contains no directions and contains the following items: orange square cardboard base with black corner pieces to create a frame; 12 white cardboard squares each with some smaller squares cut out and others marked in pencil; blue cardboard cover square with cut notches and squares that can be pulled back to reveal the white cardboard pieces underneath (a peek-a-boo, open and close effect) -
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Sleuth
Prototype has no directions and consists of cardboard gameboard in 3 pieces with taped edges. Playing surface contains inked circles and stars connected by lines and arrows. Board has pasted paper labels in squares--some contain typed labels and others have colored pencil shapes. -
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The Prize Color Game
Prototype has no directions and consists of two cardboard gameboards, identical except one has the game title on 2 sides; gameboards consist of 35-square grid of various colors plus 6 circles, one of each color used in the game. -
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The Go-Round Game
Prototype has no directions and consists of a rectangular piece of cardboard with an oval, race-track design of variously-colored squares and title in the middle. -
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Free for All
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard gameboard, square shape, with grid of white and gray squares; plastic bag containing small squares of various colors, each square marked with a number -
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Score Up
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard gameboard (2 pieces taped together); playing surface consists of pencil squares, some marked with letters and others marked along the edges with 10, 20, 30, 40, and 60; 6 small black cardboard squares; round plastic tiles/markers in red, blue, yellow, and green; 4 small plastic rectangular playing pieces in red, blue, yellow, and green; plastic bag with game title and date reference -
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Touch & Go
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: one cardboard gameboard taped in the middle; playing surface consists of colored circles connected by black lines to form triangles and squares (some contain pencil markings), another cardboard gameboard taped in the middle; playing field consists of blank and colored circles connected by lines to create triangles (some contain pencil markings); edges of design indicate "goal" areas -
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Organisms
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard gameboard taped in the middle and along edges, playing surface contains 99 squares, many with blue or red circles, triangles, or diamonds; small square colored pieces of cardboard containing printed shapes (triangle, circle, diamond) -
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Success
Prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: cardboard gameboard taped and folded into a square; playing surface contains various sections of squares, many containing pasted labels; different cardboard gameboard in 3 pieces (1 piece contains 2 taped sections); playing surface contains squares with marked stickers and other labels -
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Corridors (of Power)
Prototype has no directions and consists of a cardboard gameboard taped in the center. Playing surface consists of solid black dots connected to one another by penciled lines in various styles (solid, dotted, hashed, etc.); 2 sides of the board contain squares numbered 0 through 10. -
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Battle of the Blobs II
Prototype has no directions and consists of a cardboard gameboard with red-taped edges. Playing surface consists of inked squares; 2 sides of the gameboard contain the numbers 1 through 7 and the other 2 sides are lettered A through G. -
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Game prototype
Untitled prototype has no directions and consists of a cardboard gameboard, taped in the middle and folded to create a square for storage. Playing surface contains colored "blobs" connected by ink lines to create triangles. At the top is a color key: red stands for Spices, green stands for Tea, yellow stands for Pearls, purple stands for Silk, and orange stands for Incense. -
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Max-I-Nim
Prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: cardboard box; cardboard gameboard with raised, glued squares and some taped squares in red, yellow, blue, and green; plastic box containing chips/markers in white, red, blue, green, and black; plastic bag containing chips/markers in solid plastic (red, green, blue, yellow) and white plastic rings -
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Game prototype
Untitled prototype (no directions) consists of a round piece of wood painted white on back side and light gray on front side. Attached to the front is a raised cardboard square divided into 16 smaller squares. Grid outline is painted dark gray and area inside the squares is white. -
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Twists 'n Turns
Prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: 2 different-sized cardboard squares with penciled grids; 2 green paper strips and 2 orange paper squares glued to the edges of each board -
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Foreign Intrigue
This prototype may have been sent by Sid Sackson to his European agent, William Riva, for review and marketing. Large cardboard box (in poor condition and discarded) was marked as having been sent by Riva to Sackson and received 9/7/1996. Prototype includes the following items: game descriptions in various formats and with Polaroid photograph (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); folded cardboard gameboard; various sets of paper gamepieces; small manila labeled envelopes; photocopies of various gamepieces; plastic bag containing plastic gamepieces, some labeled; 2 wood and cardboard gameboards (?), one black and one brown -
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Foreign Intrigue
Prototype consists of the following items: directions and notes (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive), cardboard box and lid, cardboard gameboard with colored pencil circles labeled with city names, various sets of custom-made game cards with pencil and ink labels; one set is labeled "Void", square orange cardboard pieces labeled with letters of the alphabet, rectangular yellow cardboard pieces labeled with letters of the alphabet, carboard pieces labeled "Spy List" and containing sets of numbers, paper scorecards stapled to pieces of cardboard, large cardstock squares labeled with letters of the alphabet and threaded with colored ribbons -
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Treasure Hunt
Prototype contains the following items: game directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); cardboard box (lid decorated with Egyptian-theme printed pictures); cardboard game board with pasted printed pictures; inked labels, squares, and circles; and printed map border; 6 playing pieces and black thimble-style marker in cardboard tray; 6 identical heavy cardboard rectangles, in cardboard tray, marked with numbers and with pasted cardboard squares; 6 colored pieces of cardboard, each folded into a triangle; set of custom-made playing cards, red on the back, inked drawings and labels on front; set of hexagonal cardboard cards, yellow on one side and printed map picture on the other; 6 pink, printed "tickets" -
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Tangled Web
Puzzle prototype has directions glued to cardboard base; prototype contains the following items: solution sheet (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive), cardboard base with glued-on directions and title label, puzzle piece made of strips of cardstock interwoven within a cardboard frame; strips contain colored squares -
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Game prototype
Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box, small piece of paper with sketches, 2 pieces of cardstock that may be templates, set of custom-made cards with penciled numbers and markings in various colors -
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Game prototype
Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box, small cardboard squares and circles in various colors, rounded-edge cards containing names of various American companies and industries, 1 pair of dice -
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Game prototype
Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box; cardboard pieces of various shapes, divided by penciled lines into squares containing penciled numbers and dots; small wooden peg-style pieces colored yellow, green, or orange