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Title
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1966_Sackson_346_November 22.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1966
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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 4, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1966
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 1966
326th day - 39 days to come
Called Bill Bentzin. He promised to send me a copy of
BREAKTHRU and a spare ACQUIRE.
Ordered 20 prints of tyhe Clue sheets from Capitol Blueprint
for OPERATION SEARCH.
To Jules Cooper's house on Long Island, bringing him OPERATION SEARCH.
He told me of a mystery GAME they are working on.
Players move around a board and can in some degree affect
the commission of the crime. Time also enter
into it. A suspect could not commit a murder at 4 if
he was killed at 3. There is a point in the game
where players ente fill out a questionaire concerning
what they have observed and are marked on this, tho
this is not the end of the game.
Their idea is to publish three deduction games; a
highly intellectual type - theirs; an in-between type -
mine (if they take it); and a simple one. Ideal at
present is second only to Milton Bradley in sale of games,
but they are not in the adult board game market because,
as Jules says, they don't have any really good board games.
He is trying to rectify this and to convince top management
that they will sell.
They are also developing a completely skill football GAME,
played without dice, cards, or spinners, and in which at each
turn a player moves all 11 pieces.
Jules told me of a war GAME he has invented but which
he has not been able to have his company put out. It is
a ground and sea war between two countries which are
too small to have airplanes involved. Each player sets
up his forces as he wishes (there is a screen between
the countries). There are two types of troops,
offensive & defensive. Each player writes out a
"plan of attack" which he must follow in his use of
his offensive troops. The defensive troops can be
used at will. When one player is ready to cross the
border the screen is removed. Object is to occupy and
hold the opponent's capitol and two other cities.
Promised to show it to me sometime.
We discussed some of the old games - such as
STRATEGY, BLOCKADE & ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL.
