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Title
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1973_Sackson_209_July 08.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1973
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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 2, Object 1, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1973
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
8 Sunday - July 1973
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost - 189th day - 176 days to come
Started drawing up the diagram for POWER NETWORK (see 7/4).
(cont. from 7/9) [7/9]
bers.
Thought of a game SUPERGHOSTS. Letters are filled in a long series
of spaces and can be put before, between, or after the other
letters, as long as there are empty spaces. A player who cannot
extend the word - either because it will be finished with
another letter or because he can't find a word - can pass. Afterall
except 1 player have passed the remaining player can fill in as
many letters as he can until he completes a word, scoring one point
for each letter. If he is bluffing, but is not challenged, the
remaining player still scores one point for each letter written
so far. If one or more players challenge and the player has
a word he scores double the and the challengers score the
same amount minus - each one separately. If the player
was bluffing, he loses double the number of letters down and
each challenger scores the amount positive.
Tried to call Tom Atwater. No answer.
(cont. from 7/12) [7/18]
called THE WATERGATE GAME (Brunic Toy Corp.) It has a MONOPOLY-like board but
seems to be simply a matter of winning or losing slips
representing "electoral votes" to be the first to get enough to
be elected. Each player has 3 cards which allow him 3
times during the game to challenge another player to gamble
for electoral votes.
In the window of another store I saw a game WINGS. (checked at
home and I have it.)
To Steve Saxe (see 7/15). Vivianne Meyers there. The GAME
idea they had was to use a piece of louvre normally used
over a light fixture and balls (either glass or plastic) to
throw on the louvre. The piece, which they bought on Canal
St. was 12" and divided into 23x23 spaces. They had a lot
of 9/16 glass balls which fitted nicely into the holes, but were a
little too big to stay next to each other. Probably 1/2 would be
right.
I saw a lot of game possibilities. A number of balls could
be thrown by each player in turn. When a certain configuration,
such as 5 in a row, results, the player throwing takes it off.
Another idea. Throw and 7 balls trying to duplicate a configuration
that is on a card. HALMA could certainly be played,
and a small GO, if enough balls can be provided.
We discussed the problem of finding 1/2" balls. I'll check
(cont. on 7/7)
