1968_Sackson_113_April 04.jpg
Creator
Sid Sackson
Date
1968
Format
.jpg
Source
Box 1, Object 6, Sid Sackson collection
Item sets
Rights Statement
The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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1968_Sackson_113_April 04.jpg
Title
1968_Sackson_113_April 04.jpg
Creator
Sid Sackson
Date
1968
Type
image
Format
.jpg
Source
Box 1, Object 6, Sid Sackson collection
Language
English
Coverage
1968
Rights
The Strong, Rochester, New York.
transcription
Thursday 4 April 1968
95th day - 271 days to come
Jerry Darcy called from the airport. Invited him over.
He showed me a model of his new set of puzzles called
HANG UP, "played with mental blocks". It is a set of 6-3x3x3
cubes which are each colored differently and broken into
pieces (like SOMA). During evening I put all but one together.
I also suggested that they could al be mixed together and
a number of players could grab for pieces of any color with ob-
ject to be first to complete a cube. (Trouble with this is that
a player could memorize a winning set of pcs. and always take
them. It could also be played something like CARRE but I
won't suggest that.) Parker is quite interested in it.
COUPE D'ETAT gave him $27,000 in royalties last year. But the
first quarter this year was only $1,000. They are rewriting the
rules and he hopes that will improve sales. (Alice mentioned
that it was not moving off the shelves.)
Jerry sold two of his games to E.S.R.:- PROGRAMMIT, BLUF.
Lakeside has changed KUFU to INK A DINK A DOO. Jerry and I
think it pretty terrible.
Jerry has sold a game called SCHTICK to Saalfield. It is a
successor to BLOCKHEAD which was also put out by Saafield.
The pieces consist of segments cut on different bevels [or levels?] from
a dowel stick, abt. 1"[symbol]. They are piled in one pile until
they collapse. I told Jerry about SCATTER BRAIN. He said he
knew the one putting it out and implied that he stole it.
Transogram is looking at TABOO (This was previously called VOLCANO,
see 11/16/67). There is a volcano which explodes and scatters
the cards around the room.
Frank Thibault:- 3M has dropped SQUIGGLE because of NILE.
REGATTA will come out national in May. 3M has also signed a
contract for TOTAL OUT (see 11/16/67).
Parker is looking at his game PLOY. Jerry didn't remember all
the details but it is played on an 8x8 (probably) quadrille.
The pieces are discs with from one to 3 arrows on each.
The pcs. move in the direction or the arrows and as many spaces as the
number of arrows (Jerry thinks. It would have better balance to
have the length of move in inverse proportion to the number of
arrows.) Replacement capture. Object is to capture opponent's
"King". (Neither of us think Parker will be interested.)
SPLURGE (see 11/16/67) was sold by its inventor to Createk .
The "Lego" division of Samsonite is looking for games. They
have a Football GAME which Jerry thinks is quite ordinary.
They say they are looking for games which involve
decision making. They are in Denver and the man to contact
is Mr. R. Reed.
Jerry says that Parker is dropping Hans Goldsmith's
DON'T MISS THE BOAT.
I showed Jerry BAZAAR and also KNOTS TO YOU. He said the
latter was a good idea but not saleable until I do more
with it. I told Jerry about [crossout] TRIPLE CROSS.
I told Jerry about GAMES -> -> -> NEW -> -> -> BUT DIFFERENT and
(cont. on 4/3)
95th day - 271 days to come
Jerry Darcy called from the airport. Invited him over.
He showed me a model of his new set of puzzles called
HANG UP, "played with mental blocks". It is a set of 6-3x3x3
cubes which are each colored differently and broken into
pieces (like SOMA). During evening I put all but one together.
I also suggested that they could al be mixed together and
a number of players could grab for pieces of any color with ob-
ject to be first to complete a cube. (Trouble with this is that
a player could memorize a winning set of pcs. and always take
them. It could also be played something like CARRE but I
won't suggest that.) Parker is quite interested in it.
COUPE D'ETAT gave him $27,000 in royalties last year. But the
first quarter this year was only $1,000. They are rewriting the
rules and he hopes that will improve sales. (Alice mentioned
that it was not moving off the shelves.)
Jerry sold two of his games to E.S.R.:- PROGRAMMIT, BLUF.
Lakeside has changed KUFU to INK A DINK A DOO. Jerry and I
think it pretty terrible.
Jerry has sold a game called SCHTICK to Saalfield. It is a
successor to BLOCKHEAD which was also put out by Saafield.
The pieces consist of segments cut on different bevels [or levels?] from
a dowel stick, abt. 1"[symbol]. They are piled in one pile until
they collapse. I told Jerry about SCATTER BRAIN. He said he
knew the one putting it out and implied that he stole it.
Transogram is looking at TABOO (This was previously called VOLCANO,
see 11/16/67). There is a volcano which explodes and scatters
the cards around the room.
Frank Thibault:- 3M has dropped SQUIGGLE because of NILE.
REGATTA will come out national in May. 3M has also signed a
contract for TOTAL OUT (see 11/16/67).
Parker is looking at his game PLOY. Jerry didn't remember all
the details but it is played on an 8x8 (probably) quadrille.
The pieces are discs with from one to 3 arrows on each.
The pcs. move in the direction or the arrows and as many spaces as the
number of arrows (Jerry thinks. It would have better balance to
have the length of move in inverse proportion to the number of
arrows.) Replacement capture. Object is to capture opponent's
"King". (Neither of us think Parker will be interested.)
SPLURGE (see 11/16/67) was sold by its inventor to Createk .
The "Lego" division of Samsonite is looking for games. They
have a Football GAME which Jerry thinks is quite ordinary.
They say they are looking for games which involve
decision making. They are in Denver and the man to contact
is Mr. R. Reed.
Jerry says that Parker is dropping Hans Goldsmith's
DON'T MISS THE BOAT.
I showed Jerry BAZAAR and also KNOTS TO YOU. He said the
latter was a good idea but not saleable until I do more
with it. I told Jerry about [crossout] TRIPLE CROSS.
I told Jerry about GAMES -> -> -> NEW -> -> -> BUT DIFFERENT and
(cont. on 4/3)
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