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Title
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1971_Sackson_376_December 22.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1971
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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 9, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1971
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
9/4
9/25
9/26
WEDNESDAY 22 DECEMBER
First Day of Winter 1971 356th day - 9 days to come
Letter and X'Mas card to Jerry. Asked about the
PUZZLE he took on 11/4.
To Abercrombie & Fitch. Described ACQUIRE to a potential
customer and he bought it.
Saw FRENETICS (Everyone Products). It consists of a
hemisphere with a flat playing area mounted close to the top,
on one of the area there are passageways in a simple
maze pattern. On the other side there are "16" grooves
concentrically spaced. A number of metal balls are enclosed
and there is a hole in the center of the disc for
getting them from one side to the other. 14 different manipulative
puzzles are included on the two sides of the disc
& also in the hemispheric portion. There are definite
resemblances between these and Phil Orbanes' ORBIT, and FRENETICS was first.
Before going downtown called Pierce Promotions about going
there. Only Audrey there and she suggested that next week
would be better to look at the clippings. A new batch is
on the way. Told her about BOOK WORLD and promised to
bring her a clipping.
To BOOK WORLD. Eve not there. Got 21 copies from Marvin
Gelfand. Thomas A. Tincher, the advertising manager, spoke to me
for quite a while. He was interested in games. Also he was
interested in trying for advertising from game companies in
connection with more of my columns. Even a possibility
of a weekly column which would also be syndicated in other
papers.
To Childcraft and replaced a piece in the JEK set which
I discovered was missing yesterday.
To Earl Perel's. BB called him with a message to call Bob Gellman. Did. In order to cut the cost of putting out
GO SEE he wants to reduce the number of cards to 60.
Also told me that he is doing GO SEE rather than the other
travel game they had because he wants me as a member of
the team, [crossed out] even tho
it will be a lot more expensive to produce. I said that I didn't
want him to do it unless he thought it was a better game. He
said it was, the other being adequate.
Showed ISOLATION to Earl. The first game was over too quickly.
He suggested playing until one player was two isolations ahead
of the other player. We played that way and the game ran
until one player (me) was reduced to immobility, but it was
more interesting.
Claude came and, after supper, we played MANIPULATION again.
He had two special spaces on the track. If on a player's turn
(cont. on 9/4)
