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To Brentano's. <u>Phil Orbanes</u>' <u>ORBIT</u> was attracting a lot  <br>
To Brentano's. <u>Phil Orbanes</u>' <u>ORBIT</u> was attracting a lot  <br>
of attention.
of attention. Nothing else new there. They had a whole,  <br>
out of the way, shelf of <u>THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME</u>,  <br>
price $5.  <br>
To Abercrombie and Fitch. Saw <u>2-WAY CHECKERS</u> (Yippee, N.Y. 271).  <br>
It is played like <u>CHECKERS</u> except that the  <br>
checkers have numbers written on them as  <br>
shown (starting position).  <br>
 
[Diagram of a checker board. Some of the spaces are filled with numbers. 1, 5, 10, and 25.]
 
When no further captures (or moves, I guess) can be made  <br>
the player who has the highest numerical value of checker(s)  <br>
remaining is the winner.  <br>
He scores the numerical value of all the remaining pcs.  <br>
on the board - both players.  <br>
There are a number of variations which  <br>
I didn't get completely. One involves the pcs. being placed  <br>
face down. When a player makes a capture he must give the  <br>
number of his pc. doing the capturing. If he is wrong the  <br>
pcs. stay on. Another variation is transferring positions  <br>
as in <u>HALMA</u>. One way in directly across. Another is getting  <br>
(cont. on 9/6)