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Untitled gameboard has an inner grid of 25 squares arranged 5x5 and surrounded by a frame of 24 squares, one labelled Towers, five solid pink, five solid blue, three blank, five with blue dots, five with pink dots. -
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Untitled game involves holding companies, banks, and the stock market to make millions. Players have choices to purchase raw materials, forms of transportation, manufactured items, and utilities. -
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Preliminary drawings and plans for a game about the Korean War military strategies, specifically the Papuan Campaign and the UN counteroffensive. Gameboard and notes are drawn in two parts, each part on a set of paper envelopes taped together. -
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Untitled gameboard is hand-drawn and colored; it is divided into 12 sections, each representing a company identified by its name, a dice color and face, a valuation and a share price. Each secfion has 5 vertical columns. -
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Untitled plastic gameboard is divided into twelve parts with papertape. There are four felt circles on the back. -
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Untitled gameboard is hand-lettered and colored and is incomplete. Some entries on the gameboard indicate the game concerns investing, taxes, ordering, and property purchases. -
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Triple Play
Untitled gameboard has center triangle divided into 25 smaller triangles. Each side of the large triangle is bordered by a rectangle divided into two rows of 5 squares each. See matching diagram on August 31, 1964 entry in Sackson diary. -
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Green gameboard consists of 441 squares arranged in 21x21 grid. There is a star in the center of the grid and 12 stars around it. -
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Untitled gameboard is hand-lettered in different colors and appears to involve elections and payments. -
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Untitled gameboard consists of a large empty square in the center, surrounded by three rows of squares regarding shares, taxes, dividends, and bonuses. The board is framed with three- and four-digit numbers. -
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Untitled gameboard consists of 25 businesses in a 5x5 grid of squares; corners of the board are labelled by courts: city, county, state, and federal. -
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The Winning Ticket
Printer's proof of the gameboard for The Winning Ticket; game involves playing the lottery as well as winning prizes in other venues. -
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The Game of Airline
Game has players build airline networks through travel, bidding, trading, and management. Materials include: 1 plastic-laminated cardboard gameboard which wraps around the game box; 1 box bottom; 1 box lid; 1 customized box insert; 10 pages of game directions and 2 pages of notes (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 6 notepads; 150 bills - custom play-money (48-100s, 26-50s, 32-20s, 21-10s, 33-500s); 6 round markers - red, black, purple, yellow, green, blue; 240 rectangular markers @ 40 each to match round markers; 38 travel cards; 6 blank orange cards; 6 purchase order cards -
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The Game of Airline
Game has players build airline networks through travel, bidding, trading, and management. Materials include: 1 plastic-laminated cardboard gameboard which wraps around the game box; 1 box bottom; 1 box lid; 1 customized box insert; 10 pages of game directions and 2 pages of notes (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 6 notepads; 150 bills - custom play-money (48-100s, 26-50s, 32-20s, 21-10s, 33-500s); 6 round markers - red, black, purple, yellow, green, blue; 240 rectangular markers @ 40 each to match round markers; 38 travel cards; 6 blank orange cards; 6 purchase order cards -
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Neat Fit
Game involves placing dividers and colored blocks on an excised gameboard. Materials include: 1 oaktag box bottom; 1 oaktag box top; 1 photograph showing play and 1 dimensional sketch (both items transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 6 oaktag separators; 1 excised gameboard, divided into six sets of eight triangles each -
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The Brain Game - Takeover!
"The object of the Brain Game is to set up companies to tackle our modern problems..." (Sid Sackson in game directions). Materials include: 1 box top; 1 box bottom; 3 custom box inserts, one with laminated spinner; 16 pages of directions and illustrations (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 3 plastic dice; 4 quick reference cards; 18 special personnel cards; 26 personnel cards; 29 assistant cards; 3 bonus tokens; 22 bills play-money -
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Concensus - The Thinking Man's Bingo
"Concensus is a new and entirely original concept in games. The object is to complete a row of five, but there the resemblance to Bingo ceases... the players vote and by 'concensus' determine who will place markers at each play." (Sid Sackson's introduction to game directions). Materials include: 1 box bottom with 4 wooden inserts; 1 box top; 5 pages of directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 1 folding 3-D game-board, 24 indented squares surround 25 numbered squares in a 5x5 grid; 1 custom insert to fit over gameboard and directions; 9 custom boxes on insert to hold parts; 5 lifting inserts, one for each of 5 boxes; 1 wood marker; 36 rectangular cards with dots differing in number and color; 25 numbered small rectangular cards; 96 square cards of different geometric designs; 240 small square markers divided by color into 12 envelopes -
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Deal-Me-In
A deck of cards directs players to move toward experts in different fields. Materials include: 1 box top; 1 box bottom; 6 custom box inserts to contain parts; 1 folding gameboard; 48 cards; 5 pink rectangular plastic blocks; 6 wooden cubes with letters; 36 plastic markers, six each yellow, red, black, green, brown, blue) -
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String-of-Pearls
Players move a power piece to acquire pearls on the board. Materials include: 1 box top; 1 box bottom; 2 gameboards, one with hexagonal spaces, one with 3-D squares; 4 pages of hand-written directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 2 pages of diagrams (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 1 page of notations (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive) -
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It's a Deal!
"In this world of high finance and low cunning your goal is to put together profitable deals by organizing the necessary big time operators." (Sid Sackson in game directions). Materials include: 1 box bottom; 1 decorated box top; 1 gameboard made of heavy paper; 3 square, colored playing pieces labelled Level, Dealer, and Turn; 80 custom-made play $ bills (20 ten-million, 20 five-million, 40 1-million); 52 pages of directions, diagrams, and notations (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive) -
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It's a Deal!
"In this world of high finance and low cunning your goal is to put together profitable deals by organizing the necessary big time operators." (Sid Sackson in game directions). Materials include: 1 box bottom; 1 decorated box top; 1 gameboard made of heavy paper; 3 square, colored playing pieces labelled Level, Dealer, and Turn; 80 custom-made play $ bills (20 ten-million, 20 five-million, 40 1-million); 52 pages of directions, diagrams, and notations (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive) -
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The Winning Ticket
"Set up your chain of offices and make a fortune selling tickets in the great National Lottery." (Sid Sackson in game directions). Materials include: ; 1 box bottom; 1 box top; 4 custom box inserts; 4 typewritten pages of instructions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 1 folding gameboard; 1 folding schedule of payments sign; 36 lottery cards; 5 dice (2 plastic green, 2 smaller white, 1 smaller red); 6 cylindrical plastic white tokens with symbols; 107 cardboard markers (17 to match each of 6 tokens); 36 square "city" tokens, each with colored circle; 67 pieces of custom-made play money - 5 $5000, 20 $1000, 13 $500, 29 $100; 40 rectangular special directions cards -
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It's a Deal!
Object of the game is to organize big-time operators to put together profitable deals. Materials include: 1 box bottom; 1 box top; 16 pages of directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 1 3-D number tile; 1 folding gameboard -
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The Brain Game
3 gameboards (4 pieces total), each made of cardboard with ink and pencil markings; 2 of the boards are divided into the following game spaces: President, Vice Presidents, Clerical, Secretarial, Special, Sales, Research & Development, Accounting, and Special. -
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War and Peace
The object of the game is to use diplomacy and alliances to create peace/war. Materials include: 2 sets of folding gameboards; 4 pages of directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); box top and bottom; 2 piece materials box containing: 2 plastic dice, 1 black wooden cube, 12 countries tiles (6 large, 6 small), 10 red rectangular markers, 30 pink special instruction cards, 30 blue special directions cards, 120 small rectangular cards (30 each green, brown, red, blue), 64 small rectangular cards (16 each green, brown, red, blue) -
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Up the Organization
Object of the game is to succeed at office politics and be promoted to Chairman of the Board. Materials include: 1 folding gameboard; 3 pages of directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); 2-piece materials box containing: 2 plastic dice, 2 wooden dice, 6 square cardboard markers, 144 Office Politics cards divided into 4 decks: Shares, Graduate Studies, Profits, "Old Man Likes You" -
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Game prototype
Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box, 3 blue cardboard pieces of different shapes; 1 contains 2 round cut-outs, small hexagonal cardboard pieces with red pencil markings -
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Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box, half sheet of paper with pencil notations, rectangular white cards with color-penciled numbers in 2 corners -
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Untitled prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: cardboard box; strips of cut-up index cards divided into red, white, and blue penciled squares; square cardboard pieces in red, white, and blue marked either A, B, C, or D -
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Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box; cardboard pieces of various shapes, divided by penciled lines into squares containing penciled numbers and dots; small wooden peg-style pieces colored yellow, green, or orange -
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Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box, small cardboard squares and circles in various colors, rounded-edge cards containing names of various American companies and industries, 1 pair of dice -
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Untitled prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard box, small piece of paper with sketches, 2 pieces of cardstock that may be templates, set of custom-made cards with penciled numbers and markings in various colors -
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Tangled Web
Puzzle prototype has directions glued to cardboard base; prototype contains the following items: solution sheet (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive), cardboard base with glued-on directions and title label, puzzle piece made of strips of cardstock interwoven within a cardboard frame; strips contain colored squares -
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Treasure Hunt
Prototype contains the following items: game directions (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); cardboard box (lid decorated with Egyptian-theme printed pictures); cardboard game board with pasted printed pictures; inked labels, squares, and circles; and printed map border; 6 playing pieces and black thimble-style marker in cardboard tray; 6 identical heavy cardboard rectangles, in cardboard tray, marked with numbers and with pasted cardboard squares; 6 colored pieces of cardboard, each folded into a triangle; set of custom-made playing cards, red on the back, inked drawings and labels on front; set of hexagonal cardboard cards, yellow on one side and printed map picture on the other; 6 pink, printed "tickets" -
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Foreign Intrigue
Prototype consists of the following items: directions and notes (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive), cardboard box and lid, cardboard gameboard with colored pencil circles labeled with city names, various sets of custom-made game cards with pencil and ink labels; one set is labeled "Void", square orange cardboard pieces labeled with letters of the alphabet, rectangular yellow cardboard pieces labeled with letters of the alphabet, carboard pieces labeled "Spy List" and containing sets of numbers, paper scorecards stapled to pieces of cardboard, large cardstock squares labeled with letters of the alphabet and threaded with colored ribbons -
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Foreign Intrigue
This prototype may have been sent by Sid Sackson to his European agent, William Riva, for review and marketing. Large cardboard box (in poor condition and discarded) was marked as having been sent by Riva to Sackson and received 9/7/1996. Prototype includes the following items: game descriptions in various formats and with Polaroid photograph (transferred to Library's Sid Sackson Archive); folded cardboard gameboard; various sets of paper gamepieces; small manila labeled envelopes; photocopies of various gamepieces; plastic bag containing plastic gamepieces, some labeled; 2 wood and cardboard gameboards (?), one black and one brown -
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Twists 'n Turns
Prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: 2 different-sized cardboard squares with penciled grids; 2 green paper strips and 2 orange paper squares glued to the edges of each board -
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Untitled prototype (no directions) consists of a round piece of wood painted white on back side and light gray on front side. Attached to the front is a raised cardboard square divided into 16 smaller squares. Grid outline is painted dark gray and area inside the squares is white. -
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Max-I-Nim
Prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: cardboard box; cardboard gameboard with raised, glued squares and some taped squares in red, yellow, blue, and green; plastic box containing chips/markers in white, red, blue, green, and black; plastic bag containing chips/markers in solid plastic (red, green, blue, yellow) and white plastic rings -
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Untitled prototype has no directions and consists of a cardboard gameboard, taped in the middle and folded to create a square for storage. Playing surface contains colored "blobs" connected by ink lines to create triangles. At the top is a color key: red stands for Spices, green stands for Tea, yellow stands for Pearls, purple stands for Silk, and orange stands for Incense. -
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Battle of the Blobs II
Prototype has no directions and consists of a cardboard gameboard with red-taped edges. Playing surface consists of inked squares; 2 sides of the gameboard contain the numbers 1 through 7 and the other 2 sides are lettered A through G. -
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Corridors (of Power)
Prototype has no directions and consists of a cardboard gameboard taped in the center. Playing surface consists of solid black dots connected to one another by penciled lines in various styles (solid, dotted, hashed, etc.); 2 sides of the board contain squares numbered 0 through 10. -
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Success
Prototype has no directions and consists of the following items: cardboard gameboard taped and folded into a square; playing surface contains various sections of squares, many containing pasted labels; different cardboard gameboard in 3 pieces (1 piece contains 2 taped sections); playing surface contains squares with marked stickers and other labels -
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Organisms
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: cardboard gameboard taped in the middle and along edges, playing surface contains 99 squares, many with blue or red circles, triangles, or diamonds; small square colored pieces of cardboard containing printed shapes (triangle, circle, diamond) -
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Touch & Go
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: one cardboard gameboard taped in the middle; playing surface consists of colored circles connected by black lines to form triangles and squares (some contain pencil markings), another cardboard gameboard taped in the middle; playing field consists of blank and colored circles connected by lines to create triangles (some contain pencil markings); edges of design indicate "goal" areas