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Title
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1970_Sackson_173_June 02.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
6/1
5/31
5/30
5/29
TUESDAY 2 JUNE
1970 153rd day - 212 days to come
While waiting for Pierre in the lobby looked at a copy of
Paris Match (May 23rd, 1970). They had what they called
a "game" called PIXIE. It was supposed to be a rage in the
U.S. with all the newspapers having contests. (I never saw
it.) It consists of commic cartoons using letters and/or
numbers instead of animate characters. (For example:-
in the series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4 is saying "I'm sure I was here
before you.")
Pierre picked us up at the hotel. Drove us to a book store where
I bought RÉCRÉATIONS MATHÉMATIQUES (4 Vols.) par Éduoard Lucas.
(Total cost 40f.)
He took us to a book store run by a friend who published a
book on GO and a set for playing it. He would have liked to
meet me but he wasn't there.
To Pierre's house. Looked at his books and at a pile of games sent
to him for review by manufacturers. At end of evening took
the following along with me to look at and return tomorrow:-
LE TRIOKER, ÉCHEC AUX CHEVALIERS, MACADAM, ELDORADO,
RAFOLE!, REPORTAGES.
He had a complete set of reprints of SPHINX, a French
magazine on Recreational math published in the 30's, bound
in 3 volumes. I looked thru part of them. Saw
LE JEU DU COLORIAGE. An area is divided into irregularly shaped
smaller areas (as in a map). 2 to 4 play. Players in turn
place a marker of their color in any unoccupied space, ex-
cept next to one in which they already have a marker. Instead
of placing a marker they may slide one to an adjacent space,
under the same limitations. When no player can place a
further marker the game is over and the most markers placed
wins. Also saw LA BATAILLE DES NOMBRES. Players (2 I believe)
in turn choose one of the numbers from 1 to 20, which wasn't
used before. Track is kept of the cumulative total. A player
scores that amount when he reaches a total that is a "power."
He loses the amount of a "power" he must, or chooses to,
pass over. (The rules do not seem to be complete.) Took the
set of SPHINX with me to look at also.
Pierre showed me some of his columns in SCIENCE ET VIE. Also
the one in WORD WAYS. He also does a weekly puzzle
for a right wing newspaper - using a nom de plume. He is
also doing puzzles for an African magazine. One of his
columns dealt with "Word Ladders," and I told him of
Lewis Carroll's claimed invention of the pastime. He
had the book DIVERSIONS & DIGRESSIONS and I pointed out
DOUBLETS, SYZYGIES, and LANRICK which he hadn't seen.
A friend of Pierre's who is the artist for his book and who also works
with Pierre on games came in after supper. I showed them
COMBINATION.
Pierre showed me HILLS & VALLEYS. This is a solitaire played with
a regular deck. Starting with the upper left hand corner a
7 x 7 square (the last 3 cards not being used) is formed by
(cont. on 6/1)
