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Title
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1970_Sackson_168_May 28.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1970
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Type
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image
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Format
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.jpg
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Source
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Box 1, Object 8, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1970
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
THURSDAY 28 MAY 1970
Corpus Christi
148th day - 217 days to come
Brought PROFIT and PE-LING to Felicia.
She will be charging any new clients 35% of their royalties.
Rcd. a letter from Jim Kraus. People like SEARCH, once
they understand it. If the results are favorable it
will be considered for mid 1971 introduction.
(cont. from 6/3) [6/3]
following for Pierre to reproduce for me : -
1932 - Pg. 37 - LA BATAILLE DES NOMBRES.
1937 - Pg. 27 - A DOMONO variation.
1938 - Pg. 167 - MAGO - which is supposed to be an American game.
(cont. from 8/15) [8/20]
of games in this set and is called TRIP OUT.
Another game in the set consisted in playing the balls
down to the board, a ball being allowed to be placed
adjacent orthogonally only to the same color or one next
to it on the color wheel. (Don't remember the details.)
(Told Gini that John Geiger had a similar game. She was
familiar with his games, in fact, used his equipment, but
said she was not familiar with this one.)
COVER UP : - This had a great deal of equipment. Didn't
get all the details, but basically it was a number
of sets of cards, one of which was identical with
HARR HOOLIM PERCEPTION GAMES. The others had different
sizes, such as 2 x 2, 2 x 4, 3 x 3, (I believe). The objec
Some had shapes instead of colors. Objectives were similr
to Haar's. (I pointed out that his cards were patented.)
CROSS UP PUZZLE WORD : - Played with a large quadrille board and
a good supply of letter squares and black squares. One
player places 2 letter squares of his choice (I believe). The
other places a black square. Etc. Object of the first
player is to form words as long as possible while the second
tries to block them. (Didn't get the details of play and
scoring.)
SPACE WHIRL : - Played on a board which has a circle in
the center and then concentric circles around it divided into
spaces. The outer ring containing (I believe) 12 spaces
is movable. Enough space ships are divided between the
players so that the 12 outer spaces are filled by
randomly placed space ships. A number of men (equal
or more?) are placed in the center. Play is like in
(cont on 5/27)
