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<u>FITTING & PROPER</u> in Dollar Savings. | <u>FITTING & PROPER</u> in Dollar Savings. | ||
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(cont. from 12/5) [12/5] | |||
than 4 "moves" and a penalty per move for more than 4 moves. <br> | |||
The player picks the "trip". amove consists of removing the overlay <br> | |||
and turning one of the [shape of a capital T on its side] pcs. When all of the cities in the "trip" can be joined without crossing a line the "trip" is finished. For competitive play each player chooses a "trip" and the | |||
2 players take turns making moves and can try to block the opponent. <br> | |||
(Not sure of the details.) <br> | |||
<u>CHESS DICE</u>. Don't remember company and no rules were included (or they were stolen from the boxes). There are 2 dice with a different <u>CHESS</u> pc. on each face (I believe). <br> | |||
<u>ORIENT</u> (Lakeside). See picture in '73 catalog. It is played <br> | |||
like <u>CHINESE CHECKERS</u> with the following changes. At the <br> | |||
beginning of his turn a player throws the die and turns the <br> | |||
entire center section to line up with the number thrown. A player <br> | |||
who has a pc. in one of the 6 black spaces next to the numbers <br> | |||
at the center can leave the pc. there, if he wishes, until <s>that</s> he <br> | |||
throws that number, when his move can consist of moving that <br> | |||
pc. to any desired space. <br> | |||
Dorothy told me that the same people who did <u>INVEST</u> and <br> | |||
<u>ROADBLOCK</u> did the "Teaching Concepts" games such as <u>CIRCULATION</u> <br> | |||
(see 11/27). She said that the latter series is doing very well. <br> | |||
Dorothy decided that instead of standing around I could be <br> | |||
demonstrating. She had an end of a table cleared for me and had all of <br> | |||
(cont. on 11/29) |