Unidentified gameboard divided into 36 squares, one of which contains a yellow circle with star drawn on it.

Untitled gameboard divided into 49 squares, labelled with color-coded companies.

Untitled gameboard consisting of large raised circle on back, 25 raised squares on front.

Gameboard has cardboard backing, paper design of stars, suns, planets on black, divided into squares, plastic overlay; designed by Phil Orbanes and revised by Sid Sackson.

Untitled board game about planting soybeans and wheat; weather, weeds, and fertilizers are variables.

Untitled gameboard divided into 25 squares; has directional arrows and stars.

Untitled gameboard divided into 36 squares, numbered 1 through 5.

Gameboard labelled with playing card numbers and symbols and with directional arrows.

Hand-painted untitled game-board similar to checkers.

1 unlabelled gameboard diagram; design consists of squares, paths, numbered intersections and "mountains."

Untitled 3-dimensional cardboard hexagonal game board. Some hexagonal excisions are labeled with numbers/letters.

Untitled 3-dimensional cardboard hexagonal game board. Some hexagonal excisions are labeled with numbers/letters.

This game has no directions. Materials include one plastic circle, labelled with title and inventor of game and two 0-5-10-15-20 "dials."

Designer Sid Sackson's board game prototype, Pick Your Poision is a dice betting game. Sackson wrote: "A new dice game of skill and luck for two, three or four players. You can figure the odds...or you can play your hunches..." Materials include: 1 cardboard box bottom; 1 cardboard box insert; 4 inside box bumpers; 5 hand-made cardboard containers for playing pieces; 1 cardboard box tip; 1 black plastic box-top liner; 6 pages of directions, 2 typed, 4 hand-written (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 1 black pentagonal carved wood board with 12 sections, one lined with felt; 1 carved betting mat; 3 green markers; 2 dice; 16 blue chips; 24 red chips; 23 yellow chips; 24 white chips

This is a collection of maps and spinners, components for 1 or more unidentified games. Materials include: 3 cardboard backings, 3 tissue hand-drawn maps with cardboard spinners

This is a collection of maps and spinners, components for 1 or more unidentified games. Materials include: 3 cardboard backings, 3 tissue hand-drawn maps with cardboard spinners

This is a collection of maps and spinners, components for 1 or more unidentified games. Materials include: 3 cardboard backings, 3 tissue hand-drawn maps with cardboard spinners

Puzzle prototype consists of the following items: solution sheet (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive), cardboard box, square cardboard puzzle pieces with incised quadrants that contain round colored stickers

No directions included with this game. Materials include: 1 cardboard box top, 1 cardboard box bottom, 5 box inserts, 1 gameboard with raised dots, 2 brown cardobard rectangles, 20 plastic discs, 4 large cardboard discs ( 1 each red, blue, yellow, green), 20 various perforated shapes (5 each red, blue, yellow, green)

No directions included with this game. Materials include: 1 cardboard box top, 1 cardboard box bottom, 5 box inserts, 1 gameboard with raised dots, 2 brown cardobard rectangles, 20 plastic discs, 4 large cardboard discs ( 1 each red, blue, yellow, green), 20 various perforated shapes (5 each red, blue, yellow, green)

Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box lid; 2 wood gamepiece holders; play money; 216 colored tiles with names of companies/industries (contained in separate boxes); color-coded game cards stamp-labeled International Industries, National Industries, Super Industries, Consolidated Industries, Federated Industries, American Industries, and United States Industries; 4 notecards of tabular data.

Drafts of game pieces, including play money, action cards, scoresheets/gameboard?, wooden dice

No directions; includes the following items: 2 small pages of notes (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archives); cardboard box; rectangular, blank cards in the colors of white, yellow, orange, pink, and blue; small folded sheets of paper with typewritten information used during play; reverse side of each sheet has an inked number

No instructions; consists of the following items: 3 custom wooden dice: one labeled with numbers, one labeled with fractions, and one unlabeled; cardboard box; piece of cardboard divided into pencilled squares; pieces of colored cardboard in various shapes, with pencil squares and inked fractions

This puzzle is hand-made but untitled. Materials include: 1 box bottom; 1 box lid; 1 box divider; 1 diagram, function unknown; 9 rectangular prisms of different lengths, harlequin-decorated

This game has no directions. Materials include: 1 plastic storage bag, marked "see 4/9/84, 4/21/84" [reference to 1984 word diary in Library's Sid Sackson Archive]; 2 plastic dice, one has sides covered with blue, red, yellow cardstock; 6 cardboard triangles with dice-like circles in center, blue, yellow, red rectangles on sides; 45 white cards with blue, red, yellow rectangles in different configurations

100 circular game pieces with pegs, 10 each of red, pink, yellow, brown, grey, light blue, medium blue, light green, medium green, dark green

Miscellaneous game pieces. Materials include: 1 blue fabric Seagram's bag; 31 cardboard rectangular pieces, 2 colored circles/sticker on each; 64 pink-and-white paper-covered cork round markers; 4 small cardboard round markers with dot in middle; 112 multicolored square markers; 99 blank white markers, variously-sized rectangles and squares

Unidentified playing pieces. Materials include: 1 numbered double-tile, 16 lettered and numbered double-tiles

Miscellaneous game pieces. Materials include: 1 hinged plastic box; 8 cardboard markers of various colors; 5 plastic standing game pieces, 1 each red, white, yellow, blue, green; 1 plastic white round marker; 1 cylindrical red piece; 1 pink arrow-shaped piece; 1 plastic die

2 empty plastic boxes, one labelled Intersection

59 plastic dominos, some altered to numerals using paper labels

Miscellaneous game pieces; materials include: 2 wooden dice, 1 red, 1 green; 2 cornered standing markers, 1 striped red, 1 striped blue; 16 cylindrical markers, 1 side red, 1 side blue

There are no instructions. Materials include: 1 plastic hinged box, 1 cardboard box divider, 120 cardboard squares containing different geometric shapes in colored pencil: ( 60 green, 60 orange)

There are no directions. Materials include: 1 hinged plastic box imprinted Gordon L. Green, M.D.; 52 square tiles with red arrows

There are no instructions. Materials include: 1 plastic hinged box, imprinted "Gordon Green, M.D.", 30 numbered triangular markers, 10 each red, green, yellow

Cards for a game involving states and elections. Materials include: 251 cards (119 blue, 70 yellow, 62 pink)

Cards for a game involving states and elections. Materials include: 251 cards (119 blue, 70 yellow, 62 pink)

Puzzle prototype is unnamed, without directions, and contains the following items: cardboard box, piece of paper with drawn solutions, cardboard pieces of various sizes and shapes, marked in pencil with letters on one side and numbers on the other side

Metamorphosis has no directions. Materials include: 1 cardboard box bottom, 1 cardboard box top, 25 plastic playing pieces, white with colored tops: 5 each of green, blue, black, red, orange