1970_Sackson_158_May 18.jpg
Creator
Sid Sackson
Date
1970
Format
.jpg
Source
Box 1, Object 8, Sid Sackson collection
Item sets
Rights Statement
The Strong, Rochester, New York.
Full Metadata
1970_Sackson_158_May 18.jpg
Title
1970_Sackson_158_May 18.jpg
Creator
Sid Sackson
Date
1970
Type
image
Format
.jpg
Source
Box 1, Object 8, Sid Sackson collection
Language
English
Coverage
1970
Rights
The Strong, Rochester, New York.
transcription
5/10
5/9
MONDAY 18 MAY
Monday in Whitsun Week 1970 138th day - 227 days to come
To Felicia's. She told me that Tom Mason of Whitman had
set up a date for next Tuesday at 11 to discuss
FOCUS and take us out to lunch.
Returned the book GAMES TO IMPROVE YOUR CHILD'S ENGLISH to
[crossed out] Felicia.
Also gave Felicia the address of Hobitt Games (see 5/13).
Brought her the rules for TRIP and also DIGIT and the rough
set of FREE FORM. Brought a copy of AGOG which I later
gave to Bob Edwards, who was there when I came.
Bob Edwards went over their various classifications:- They are looking for-
BRIDGE & other card games. - Trick taking games with non-standard cards, with or without other gimmicks.
Social games. 1) Traditional types with individual boards. They already have TRIPLE CROSS and DEDUCTION. They are looking at LEXICOIN which is based on making definitions of words. 2) Occult, Mysticism, or Psychology - must tell the player some-thing about himself. They already have PERCEPTION. 3) Ice-Breakers. Told him about the business version of CINEMA and he'd like to see it. They are testing WHAT'S IT WORTH TO YOU?
Manipulation type. They like TOTTER & THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. (Seems like the wrong classification to me.)
Puzzles. WINDOW PAINS being tested. (The 2 people who didn't like it were not puzzle fans and Bob wants to give it a fair chance.)
Game chests. Standard games without royalties.
Traditional games played sitting around a table. They already have RED LETTER and SHAPE AND SHATTER.
Felicia tried to get a clear idea of the new chain of command
at X but Bob didn't say exactly where Arnold now stands.
But Bob implied that all things were going thru him.
Felica, with an assist from me showed the following:-
DOX - He wasn't interested.
CAPTURE THE CARGO (Felicia asked about it) - It is on "rear burner."
STACK STICKS (Felicia asked about it) - They can't cost it.
FORMATION (Felicia asked about it) - seems dead for now.
FACTOR (Felicia asked about it) - Bob didn't see it and would like to. (To be sent.)
LIVE WIRE - Felicia had a new model but there were mistakes and the rules weren't clear. Felicia called Rudy Lopez and he came over. He took the model back with him to work on it, using some suggestions I gave him.
PENT HOUSE (by inventor of UGLY CUBES and TRIP) - A twelve sided figure is used, each side being pentagonal in shape. In the center of each face there is a peg for re-ceiving pentagonal pcs. which are colored in different combinations of 5 colors, which are reversable. The object is to place all the pentagons into place so that edges match in color. The developed surface of the figure is as follows with the
[drawing of pentagon, with dark circle at center, lines dividing pentagon into five pieces spread out from center]
(cont. on 5/10)
5/9
MONDAY 18 MAY
Monday in Whitsun Week 1970 138th day - 227 days to come
To Felicia's. She told me that Tom Mason of Whitman had
set up a date for next Tuesday at 11 to discuss
FOCUS and take us out to lunch.
Returned the book GAMES TO IMPROVE YOUR CHILD'S ENGLISH to
[crossed out] Felicia.
Also gave Felicia the address of Hobitt Games (see 5/13).
Brought her the rules for TRIP and also DIGIT and the rough
set of FREE FORM. Brought a copy of AGOG which I later
gave to Bob Edwards, who was there when I came.
Bob Edwards went over their various classifications:- They are looking for-
BRIDGE & other card games. - Trick taking games with non-standard cards, with or without other gimmicks.
Social games. 1) Traditional types with individual boards. They already have TRIPLE CROSS and DEDUCTION. They are looking at LEXICOIN which is based on making definitions of words. 2) Occult, Mysticism, or Psychology - must tell the player some-thing about himself. They already have PERCEPTION. 3) Ice-Breakers. Told him about the business version of CINEMA and he'd like to see it. They are testing WHAT'S IT WORTH TO YOU?
Manipulation type. They like TOTTER & THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. (Seems like the wrong classification to me.)
Puzzles. WINDOW PAINS being tested. (The 2 people who didn't like it were not puzzle fans and Bob wants to give it a fair chance.)
Game chests. Standard games without royalties.
Traditional games played sitting around a table. They already have RED LETTER and SHAPE AND SHATTER.
Felicia tried to get a clear idea of the new chain of command
at X but Bob didn't say exactly where Arnold now stands.
But Bob implied that all things were going thru him.
Felica, with an assist from me showed the following:-
DOX - He wasn't interested.
CAPTURE THE CARGO (Felicia asked about it) - It is on "rear burner."
STACK STICKS (Felicia asked about it) - They can't cost it.
FORMATION (Felicia asked about it) - seems dead for now.
FACTOR (Felicia asked about it) - Bob didn't see it and would like to. (To be sent.)
LIVE WIRE - Felicia had a new model but there were mistakes and the rules weren't clear. Felicia called Rudy Lopez and he came over. He took the model back with him to work on it, using some suggestions I gave him.
PENT HOUSE (by inventor of UGLY CUBES and TRIP) - A twelve sided figure is used, each side being pentagonal in shape. In the center of each face there is a peg for re-ceiving pentagonal pcs. which are colored in different combinations of 5 colors, which are reversable. The object is to place all the pentagons into place so that edges match in color. The developed surface of the figure is as follows with the
[drawing of pentagon, with dark circle at center, lines dividing pentagon into five pieces spread out from center]
(cont. on 5/10)
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