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Prototype has no directions and consists of cardboard gameboard taped in the middle. Playing surface consist of 49 squares, some colored green or yellow. Along all 4 edges are triangles marked 1 through 7. Playing surface is bisected by red dashed line.
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Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: one cardboard gameboard (white) with grid of 48 squares; one cardboard gameboard (blue) with grid of 48 squares; yellow and white square cardboard markers/tiles, each with a stamped letter of the alphabet
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Take-A-Word
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: one cardboard gameboard (white) with grid of 48 squares; one cardboard gameboard (blue) with grid of 48 squares; yellow and white square cardboard markers/tiles, each with a stamped letter of the alphabet -
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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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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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Prototype has no directions; it may be for Sackson's Tele-Fun game, designed as a training tool for AT&T information system sales representatives. Prototype contains the following items: plastic box and lid; 3 plastic playing pieces in red, blue, and yellow; square cardboard playing pieces, labeled in ink; rectangular action cards
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Tele-Fun?
Prototype has no directions; it may be for Sackson's Tele-Fun game, designed as a training tool for AT&T information system sales representatives. Prototype contains the following items: plastic box and lid; 3 plastic playing pieces in red, blue, and yellow; square cardboard playing pieces, labeled in ink; rectangular action cards -
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No instructions; consists of the following items: cardboard box; plastic bag containing plastic chips in white, pink and blue; boxed deck of playing cards (Kings brand); cardboard gameboard with ink markings
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Temptation Poker
No instructions; consists of the following items: cardboard box; plastic bag containing plastic chips in white, pink and blue; boxed deck of playing cards (Kings brand); cardboard gameboard with ink markings -
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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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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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"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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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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Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 2 folding cardboard gameboards with taped edges; playing surface divided into 6 sections, each of which is divided into additional sections; inked lines and circles; color-penciled labels; plastic box containing small colored squares in red, blue, yellow, and green; 6 cardboard rectangles divided into smaller, labeled rectangles; 6 custom-made cardboard "reels," each with yellow cover attached by metal tab to white circle underneath, divided into sections representing film in actual view-master reels; plastic die
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The Fairy Tale Game
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: 2 folding cardboard gameboards with taped edges; playing surface divided into 6 sections, each of which is divided into additional sections; inked lines and circles; color-penciled labels; plastic box containing small colored squares in red, blue, yellow, and green; 6 cardboard rectangles divided into smaller, labeled rectangles; 6 custom-made cardboard "reels," each with yellow cover attached by metal tab to white circle underneath, divided into sections representing film in actual view-master reels; plastic die -
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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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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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Prototype has no directions and consists of a rectangular piece of cardboard with an oval, race-track design of variously-colored squares and title in the middle.
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The Go-Round Game
Prototype has no directions and consists of a rectangular piece of cardboard with an oval, race-track design of variously-colored squares and title in the middle. -
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Prototype contains no directions and contains the following items: orange square cardboard base with black corner pieces to create a frame; 12 white cardboard squares each with some smaller squares cut out and others marked in pencil; blue cardboard cover square with cut notches and squares that can be pulled back to reveal the white cardboard pieces underneath (a peek-a-boo, open and close effect)
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The Harry Lorayne Memory Game
Prototype contains no directions and contains the following items: orange square cardboard base with black corner pieces to create a frame; 12 white cardboard squares each with some smaller squares cut out and others marked in pencil; blue cardboard cover square with cut notches and squares that can be pulled back to reveal the white cardboard pieces underneath (a peek-a-boo, open and close effect) -
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Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: folding cardboard gameboard (in 2 separate pieces) with taped edges; playing surface contains squares with color-penciled labels; small plastic box containing 4 colored cardboard game pieces marked Lion, Antelope, Elephant, and Gorilla; paper envelope marked "Jungle Game" and imprinted "View-Master Picture Reels", envelope contains 4 view-master test reels (total 28 apertures with film)
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The Jungle Race
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: folding cardboard gameboard (in 2 separate pieces) with taped edges; playing surface contains squares with color-penciled labels; small plastic box containing 4 colored cardboard game pieces marked Lion, Antelope, Elephant, and Gorilla; paper envelope marked "Jungle Game" and imprinted "View-Master Picture Reels", envelope contains 4 view-master test reels (total 28 apertures with film) -
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Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: folding cardboard gameboard taped down the middle, playing surface contains squares with color-penciled labels; plastic die; yellow plastic cone-shaped marker; 4 small wooden cube gamepieces with glued colored paper in red, black, green, or orange; 4 view-master test reels containing 28 apertures with film
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The Jungle Race - Revised
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: folding cardboard gameboard taped down the middle, playing surface contains squares with color-penciled labels; plastic die; yellow plastic cone-shaped marker; 4 small wooden cube gamepieces with glued colored paper in red, black, green, or orange; 4 view-master test reels containing 28 apertures with film -
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Prototype has no directions and consists of two cardboard gameboards, identical except one has the game title on 2 sides; gameboards consist of 35-square grid of various colors plus 6 circles, one of each color used in the game.
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The Prize Color Game
Prototype has no directions and consists of two cardboard gameboards, identical except one has the game title on 2 sides; gameboards consist of 35-square grid of various colors plus 6 circles, one of each color used in the game. -
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Untitled gameboard has a grid of seven cities and five colored square markers, an unidentified rectangle, two lottery rectangles, a "used card" rectangle, and three small squares for the winning number.
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The Winning Ticket
Untitled gameboard has a grid of seven cities and five colored square markers, an unidentified rectangle, two lottery rectangles, a "used card" rectangle, and three small squares for the winning number. -
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Hand-lettered and colored two-part gameboard involves buying tickets to win first or consolation prizes in successive plays by "gamblers."
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The Winning Ticket
Hand-lettered and colored two-part gameboard involves buying tickets to win first or consolation prizes in successive plays by "gamblers." -
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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 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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"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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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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Hand-lettered and colored board consists of seven cities with 5 sets of seven colored circles, rectangles for lottery funds and tickets, used and city cards, and squares for the winning ticket.
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The Winning Ticket (II)
Hand-lettered and colored board consists of seven cities with 5 sets of seven colored circles, rectangles for lottery funds and tickets, used and city cards, and squares for the winning ticket. -
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Game description draft for These United States by Sid and Bernice Sackson
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These United States game description draft
Game description draft for These United States by Sid and Bernice Sackson -
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Probably incomplete game prototype for game Thrust, includes two-part green board with numbers and squares marked off, and a typical pencil box with circle and square colored cardboard markers inside it. Board and box each labeled "Thrust."
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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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Totally has no directions. Materials include: 1 Kodak slide box; 13 numbered cards, 7 pink and 6 blue; 22 numbered blue tiles; 38 white tiles, most numbered
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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
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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 -
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Descriptive information about how to create an account, select a page to transcribe, apply formatting, and more.
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Transcription Project Walkthrough and FAQs
Descriptive information about how to create an account, select a page to transcribe, apply formatting, and more. -
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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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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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Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: dilapidated cardboard box (discarded); 6 rectangular pieces of white cardboard, each numbered on the surface 1 through 9, some with cardboard triangles and squares glued to the surface; 6 plastic, colored playing pieces; 6 cardboard pieces folded into triangles; 6 pink cardstock "tickets"; set of cardstock cards marked with instructions in pencil; set of blue cardstock octagonal cards with a number and shape on each; set of vinyl-backed playing cards with characters and instructions; set of octagonal cardboard cards, yellow on one side and a colored map section on the other side
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Treasure Hunt
Prototype has no directions and contains the following items: dilapidated cardboard box (discarded); 6 rectangular pieces of white cardboard, each numbered on the surface 1 through 9, some with cardboard triangles and squares glued to the surface; 6 plastic, colored playing pieces; 6 cardboard pieces folded into triangles; 6 pink cardstock "tickets"; set of cardstock cards marked with instructions in pencil; set of blue cardstock octagonal cards with a number and shape on each; set of vinyl-backed playing cards with characters and instructions; set of octagonal cardboard cards, yellow on one side and a colored map section on the other side -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No instructions; consists of the following items: cardboard box and dividers; 1 plastic box containing small black cardboard squares and plastic strips with drawn lines; 1 plastic box containing small cardboard squares of various colors, each marked with a number; 2 identical gameboards with cut-out squares and rectangles, one with yellow inserted pegs and the other with blue inserted pegs
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Wiretap
No instructions; consists of the following items: cardboard box and dividers; 1 plastic box containing small black cardboard squares and plastic strips with drawn lines; 1 plastic box containing small cardboard squares of various colors, each marked with a number; 2 identical gameboards with cut-out squares and rectangles, one with yellow inserted pegs and the other with blue inserted pegs