Sackson games and prototypes
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Unidentified gameboard divided into 36 squares, one of which contains a yellow circle with star drawn on it.
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Unidentified gameboard divided into 36 squares, one of which contains a yellow circle with star drawn on it. -
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Untitled gameboard divided into 49 squares, labelled with color-coded companies.
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Untitled gameboard divided into 49 squares, labelled with color-coded companies. -
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Untitled gameboard consisting of large raised circle on back, 25 raised squares on front.
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Untitled gameboard consisting of large raised circle on back, 25 raised squares on front. -
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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.
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Untitled board game about planting soybeans and wheat; weather, weeds, and fertilizers are variables.
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Farming to Win
Untitled board game about planting soybeans and wheat; weather, weeds, and fertilizers are variables. -
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Untitled gameboard divided into 25 squares; has directional arrows and stars.
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Untitled gameboard divided into 36 squares, numbered 1 through 5.
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Gameboard labelled with playing card numbers and symbols and with directional arrows.
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Jack-Pot 77
Gameboard labelled with playing card numbers and symbols and with directional arrows. -
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Hand-painted untitled game-board similar to checkers.
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1 unlabelled gameboard diagram; design consists of squares, paths, numbered intersections and "mountains."
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1 unlabelled gameboard diagram; design consists of squares, paths, numbered intersections and "mountains." -
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Untitled 3-dimensional cardboard hexagonal game board. Some hexagonal excisions are labeled with numbers/letters.
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Untitled 3-dimensional cardboard hexagonal game board. Some hexagonal excisions are labeled with numbers/letters. -
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Untitled 3-dimensional cardboard hexagonal game board. Some hexagonal excisions are labeled with numbers/letters.
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Untitled 3-dimensional cardboard hexagonal game board. Some hexagonal excisions are labeled with numbers/letters. -
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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."
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One Good Turn
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." -
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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
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Pick Your Poison (PYP)
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 -
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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
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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 -
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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
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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 -
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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
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Game prototype
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 -
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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
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Torture Tower
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 -
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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)
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Haven
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) -
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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)
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Haven
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) -
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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.
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Decision
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. -
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Drafts of game pieces, including play money, action cards, scoresheets/gameboard?, wooden dice
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Fight City Hall
Drafts of game pieces, including play money, action cards, scoresheets/gameboard?, wooden dice -
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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
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Haggle III
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 -
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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
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Makes One
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 -
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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
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Game prototype
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 -
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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
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Pie
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 -
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100 circular game pieces with pegs, 10 each of red, pink, yellow, brown, grey, light blue, medium blue, light green, medium green, dark green
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100 circular game pieces with pegs, 10 each of red, pink, yellow, brown, grey, light blue, medium blue, light green, medium green, dark green -
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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
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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 -
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Unidentified playing pieces. Materials include: 1 numbered double-tile, 16 lettered and numbered double-tiles
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Unidentified playing pieces. Materials include: 1 numbered double-tile, 16 lettered and numbered double-tiles -
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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
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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 -
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2 empty plastic boxes, one labelled Intersection
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59 plastic dominos, some altered to numerals using paper labels
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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
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Game prototype
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 -
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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)
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Game prototype
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) -
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There are no directions. Materials include: 1 hinged plastic box imprinted Gordon L. Green, M.D.; 52 square tiles with red arrows
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Game prototype
There are no directions. Materials include: 1 hinged plastic box imprinted Gordon L. Green, M.D.; 52 square tiles with red arrows -
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There are no instructions. Materials include: 1 plastic hinged box, imprinted "Gordon Green, M.D.", 30 numbered triangular markers, 10 each red, green, yellow
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Game prototype
There are no instructions. Materials include: 1 plastic hinged box, imprinted "Gordon Green, M.D.", 30 numbered triangular markers, 10 each red, green, yellow -
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Cards for a game involving states and elections. Materials include: 251 cards (119 blue, 70 yellow, 62 pink)
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Cards for a game involving states and elections. Materials include: 251 cards (119 blue, 70 yellow, 62 pink) -
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Cards for a game involving states and elections. Materials include: 251 cards (119 blue, 70 yellow, 62 pink)
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Game prototype
Cards for a game involving states and elections. Materials include: 251 cards (119 blue, 70 yellow, 62 pink) -
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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
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Game prototype
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 -
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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
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Metamorphosis
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