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Title
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1972_Sackson_304_October 10.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
10 TUESDAY- OCTOBER 1972
284TH DAY - 82 DAYS TO COME
Rcd. [received] the letter from Bill Eckhart. He has to have a simplification of
the rules for JUNGLE RACE by the end of the week. He can
be reached in Portland.
BB Worked on it in the evening and decided that having animal
markers made it very confusing. Also the starting distribution
of the markers was an unneccessary [unnecessary] complications and a few other
things.
Called Marvin Channing. Still no answer from advertising director.
If I don't hear from Marvin about ONE AT A TIME BY THE MILLIONS in
about two weeks, I'm to call him.
Deposited the Hasbro check in Knickerbocker.
Call from Phil Orbanes. Asked if I knew of a game named KALEIDOSCOPE.
They want to use it for Joel Gaines' new game, in place of SPELLBOUND.
I hadn't heard of one, and checked TOYS and PLAYTHINGS - also negative.
Talked some more about his job at "Gamut of Game." He got a good
contract and the office is very pleasant to work at. He meets
Waldemir Von Zedtwitz regularly and gets along very well with
him. Joel Gaines is so well taken care of by Von Zedtwitz that he
can travel wherever and whenever he wants. I said that once the
company needs me I might be the in the mood to give up my free
lance status for a good job. Phil said that would be great.
Phil mentioned that to make CROSSFIRE look different from HEX
he was thinking of using circles connected with "bridges." I
suggested that, instead of making some spaces "free" to both
players as he wanted to do to equalize the chances between
first and second play, some "bridges" be left out to acheive [achieve] the same
thing. He'll work on it.
At F.A.O. bought a game FUTURES. Not too great, but I got it for
$3 because it was the only one they had and the box was beat up.
Also got a catalog. Among other things, contained MARK THREE,
SMARTY, CHUTZPAH, REX, TORPEDO ATTACK, TRIPLE YAHTZEE, AIRPORT,
PERQUACKEY, SCORE FOUR, 4000 A.D. (pages filed in '72 misc.)
(cont. from 10/19)[10/19]
Played two games of ADD-A-LETTER (BB won first, Anne 2nd).
First was played without players getting letters to
start, 2nd. with. They thought it was good for the
purpose, but not profound.
Later thought of two more variations. 1) The 5 letters per
person are all turned up together and players take turns pick-
ing one. 2) Letters already down in a word can be rearranged
with the new letter(s) being placed.
Rcd. [received] two copies of the magazine LIFESTYLE. Nothing on games.
