1972_Sackson_076_February 25.jpg
Creator
Sid Sackson
Date
1972
Format
.jpg
Source
Box 1, Object 10, Sid Sackson collection
Item sets
Rights Statement
The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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1972_Sackson_076_February 25.jpg
Title
1972_Sackson_076_February 25.jpg
Creator
Sid Sackson
Date
1972
Type
image
Format
.jpg
Source
Box 1, Object 10, Sid Sackson collection
Language
English
Coverage
1972
Rights
The Strong, Rochester, New York.
transcription
25 FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 1972
56TH DAY - 310 DAYS TO COME
Felicia called. Hallmark lost the rules for HALF AND HALF.
(Connor Barrett's) and it will take too long to send to
Connor for them. I looked and finally found them in 1967
Diary. (1/18). Called and told Lillian Voegelin what I had
on it. She was able to reconstruct from this. Lillian has
been going over the material Felicia has and will help her
showing things next week.
Felicia told me that Lou Zeller is coming in for the Toy Fair.
Bill Caruson will be in for the Stationery Show.
Claude called. At Gift show he saw Stewart Kaplan of
U.S. Game Systems. Stewart was interested in WATCH. I told
Claude about Michael Dummett's suspicion of Stewart over
the book on TAROK.
At Gift Show Claude saw a "gangster" GAME trying to cash in
on the publicity for THE GODFATHER GAME. He thought I knew
it and didn't get the info.
Rcd. a bill from Random House for $65 for 100 copies of AGOG.
Rcd. from Al Richter a set of rules for games and puzzles using the TRY-ANGLES
equipment. The games are TRY-ANGLES, TRY-HEX, TRY-ARA,
TRY-NOT, TRY-FIVE, TRY-BRIDGE, TRY-ONO, TRY-MINI, TRY-LAST,
TRY-KAYLES.
Played LOTTERY with BB and Dale using the new dice. They
worked fine. We stopped when it was obvious that Dale had won.
Decided to allow a player who owes money to have a "last chance lottery".
If he doesn't win it, he is out of game.
(cont. from 2/26) [2/28]
a month. Took a sheet with a new line of $1.25 rack
items: COUNT DOWN, THE GREAT ESCAPE, [Illegible crossed out]
SCORE 3, and DOUBLE CROSS, OUTER LIMITS
(The Dexterity Game), and DROP OUT (The Mini Maze). (Filed in '72 Misc.)
Also saw a puzzle with a tentative name , TORUS,
which consisted of 9 pieces divided diagonally into 4 triangles
of 3 different levels or 1, I believe, with 3 triangles.
[Small diagram of two squares subdivided into 4 and 3 triangles.]
Object is to match levels at adjoining edges. Also
ends of columns and rows must match. I mentioned
that I had a puzzle being considered which is
similar in appearance, but not in objective. Said that I'd
tell the manufacturer about his puzzle. Knox didn't seem to be
much concerned about it.
3M : - Lou Zeller said that the demand for EXECUTIVE DECISION was
so strong that they ran out of it.
A buyer was looking at SLEUTH and EVADE to choose one. I
talked her into SLEUTH.
(cont. on 2/4)
56TH DAY - 310 DAYS TO COME
Felicia called. Hallmark lost the rules for HALF AND HALF.
(Connor Barrett's) and it will take too long to send to
Connor for them. I looked and finally found them in 1967
Diary. (1/18). Called and told Lillian Voegelin what I had
on it. She was able to reconstruct from this. Lillian has
been going over the material Felicia has and will help her
showing things next week.
Felicia told me that Lou Zeller is coming in for the Toy Fair.
Bill Caruson will be in for the Stationery Show.
Claude called. At Gift show he saw Stewart Kaplan of
U.S. Game Systems. Stewart was interested in WATCH. I told
Claude about Michael Dummett's suspicion of Stewart over
the book on TAROK.
At Gift Show Claude saw a "gangster" GAME trying to cash in
on the publicity for THE GODFATHER GAME. He thought I knew
it and didn't get the info.
Rcd. a bill from Random House for $65 for 100 copies of AGOG.
Rcd. from Al Richter a set of rules for games and puzzles using the TRY-ANGLES
equipment. The games are TRY-ANGLES, TRY-HEX, TRY-ARA,
TRY-NOT, TRY-FIVE, TRY-BRIDGE, TRY-ONO, TRY-MINI, TRY-LAST,
TRY-KAYLES.
Played LOTTERY with BB and Dale using the new dice. They
worked fine. We stopped when it was obvious that Dale had won.
Decided to allow a player who owes money to have a "last chance lottery".
If he doesn't win it, he is out of game.
(cont. from 2/26) [2/28]
a month. Took a sheet with a new line of $1.25 rack
items: COUNT DOWN, THE GREAT ESCAPE, [Illegible crossed out]
SCORE 3, and DOUBLE CROSS, OUTER LIMITS
(The Dexterity Game), and DROP OUT (The Mini Maze). (Filed in '72 Misc.)
Also saw a puzzle with a tentative name , TORUS,
which consisted of 9 pieces divided diagonally into 4 triangles
of 3 different levels or 1, I believe, with 3 triangles.
[Small diagram of two squares subdivided into 4 and 3 triangles.]
Object is to match levels at adjoining edges. Also
ends of columns and rows must match. I mentioned
that I had a puzzle being considered which is
similar in appearance, but not in objective. Said that I'd
tell the manufacturer about his puzzle. Knox didn't seem to be
much concerned about it.
3M : - Lou Zeller said that the demand for EXECUTIVE DECISION was
so strong that they ran out of it.
A buyer was looking at SLEUTH and EVADE to choose one. I
talked her into SLEUTH.
(cont. on 2/4)
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