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Title
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1970_Sackson_350_November 26.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 26 NOVEMBER 1970
Thanksgiving Day
330th day - 35 days to come
Started a board for OVER 'N OVER but didn't get a chance to
complete it.
At Marylin's played several games with Eliott and with
Dale. Disvovered that with 1, 3, and 5 moves for the
first, second, and third turns the first player had an
unbeatable advantage if he played correctly. Tried 1, 3,
3, 5 but this, as well as being unwieldy, gave the advantage
to the second player. Then thought of 1, 2, 3,
4, 5. This seemed to work o.k.
BB typed the two letters I wrote yesterday.
(cont. from 12/6) [12/8]
HECTIX, JATI, and THINKING MAN'S GOLF.
Looked at the model of INFERNAL BINARY MACHINE. Just
one slight amplification to the rules (which I later
added to the rules).
To Brentano's with Felicia. Looked around a little and
then to Pig 'N Whistle with Dorothy Shapiro for lunch.
She was quite pleasant. ACQUIRE is doing the best of
all the 3M games. BAZAAR is not moving. I told her
about the "Hallmark" gallery experience. She agreed that
the packaging was wrong. The gamettes are not doing
as well as she hoped, but she thinks they may pick up
the last two weeks before X'Mas. Incidentally, TWIXT
and STOCKS & BONDS have fallen off from previous years.
Back at the store Felicia introduced me to Henry ?
(I didn't catch his second name). He is in charge of
the whole first floor (?) but he leaves Dorothy run
the game dept. He was impressed when Felicia told
him my 4 3M games and I threw in AGOG.
I was looking at the rules for ZONAL CHESS
and Henry said he'd get a copy and send them to me.
Gave him my card. Apparently pieces in the added zones
have special moves.
Saw THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI RACE. The board shows a
snow covered ski slope with gree superimposed with
a grid. Some spaces have green triangles representing
trees. There is a supply of cardboard tiles showing
paths in different configurations. These Players have
10 of these in hand and play them to the board as many
as they can, and wish, in a turn. Score only for the number
and type of tiles played and probably for being the
first to reach the bottom (tho I didn't get this detail).
An opponent's path can only be crossed by using a cross-over
tile. (Fairly complete idea).
Saw DON'T BUG ME (Pacific). Two dice have numbers
(cont. on 11/27)
