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Title
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1972_Sackson_285_September 21.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1972
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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 10, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1972
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
21 THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972
ST. MATTHEW EVANGELIST - 265TH DAY - 101 DAYS TO COME
Rcd. [received] the X'Mas [Christmas] Sears Catalog. Took out 16 sheets (filed
in '72 misc. Among others, included :- CANOGA DICE,
GOLF-O-MATIC, THINKING MAN'S GOLF, THINKING MAN'S FOOTBALL,
NAVY GROG, MAGNETRIX, SKITTLE POKER, SKITTLE POOL,
SUPERBOWL ELECTRIC FOOTBALL, STRATEGY, PAY-OFF (Ideal), TRAP,
RADAR SEARCH, AUCTIONEER, BATTLEBOARD, CASCADE, SCORE FOUR,
LANDSLIDE, MASTERPIECE, DEALER'S CHOICE, SQUARE OFF,
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE, SPLIT-LEVEL AGGRAVATION, STAY ALIVE,
KLOMP-IT.
Marvin Channing called. The advertising director is leaving town
for several weeks, so I agreed to come in to show him
ONE AT A TIME BY THE MILLIONS tomorrow morning.
Felicia called. Asked me for Mike Alber's telephone number again.
She asked me about G.A.F. I started telling her about
the latest on JUNGLE RACE and VIEWLINE but her other phone rang.
Played 3 and 4 hand BONUS by myself. Tended to be ties.
Thought of a variation of XANDO for use on cereal boxes-
later called SUPER-TAC-TOE. The board is as shown. [drawing of a 7x7 grid of squares. The corner squares are colored in green. The center square is red, and the 8 squares surrounding it are blue] There
are 5 black pcs. [pieces], 22 marked with an "X", and
22 marked with an "O". 2 play. They start
by alternately placing the 5 black pcs. A pc.
cannot be placed in the red space. Only one
pc. can be placed on a blue space. And only one
pc. can be placed on a green space. After the
black pieces have been placed the players alternate
placing X's and O's. Object is to get 4 in a row.
If X succeeds, he scores 1 point. If a draw,
O scores 1 point. If O gets 4 in a row he scores 2 points.
A simpler way would be to alternate first play and play
until one player gets 5 points (1 point for a victory by
either player), but must be two points ahead.
(cont. from 9/23)[9/24]
back or forth. Object is to move it as far as possible into
opponent's territory in 4 turns. He is trying for the same thing.
I suggested each player having 6 cards and using them one at a
time, but only once in a round of 4. Phil liked it.
I told him about my ideas for Post:- TAKE-A-WORD, BONUS,
POST-HASTE, and SUPER-TAC-TOE.
He'll come here sometime in the next week or so and we'll
go over all the games.
Preparatory to Graeme Levin's visit (and in preparation
for future visits of a similar nature) I put most of the
duplicate games on the upstairs shelves into two of the
(cont. on 9/20)
