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WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 1967 144th day - 221 days to come

(cont. from 5/23) [5/22] The players have cards which are compared between players, one confrontation at a time. The loser must kick away one of his stepping stones and share one with a team mate. Continue, I guess, until one team has no place left to stand.

BALAROO :- Cardboard figures of various characters (wtih a Western motif) are set in a circle. A ball with a on a pendulum is activated by a battery and moves a- round knocking over the figures. Players bet on the last three figures standing (win, place, and show).

STRATEGY POKER :- A poker variation using a board and which is supposed to be good for two players. (Didn't look at details.)

WORD WILD :- CATEGORIES with this difference. Players use only on slips of paper with the category listed. Each player starts with one. They try to put in the first letter of a suitable word. Then the slips are passed around and players try to put in a letter on the slip they get. Players iden- tify their letters with their number. Score for num- ber of letters correctly placed. A timer tells when to pass the slips.

WORD OUT :- Don't remember this one.

ONE MORE TIME :- This is similar to CENTENNIAL (see THE COMPLETE BOOK OF GAMES by Wood & Goddard). A triple on the dice is wild in some way (don't re- member exactly how).

KRESKIN'S ESP :- Saw it demonstrated by Kreskin. It is defin- itely not a game.

Gary & Reidel:- AL-PHA-BET :- A word game using 60 cards. The letters are divided into 5 sets of 12, each colored differ- ently. The black set consists all of only vowels. The basic game consists of forming words (probably by drawing from the deck - altho I don't quite remember). The word must contain a black vowel in order to score. The length of the word also enters into the score and if it is also a word backwards it is counted both ways. There are 3 "advanced ways of playing as follows:-

  • ALPHA :- They say it is a "rummy" type but it appeared to be more like Anagrams ANAGRAMS.
  • BETA :- A solitaire version very much like BALI.
  • CAPA :- A BRIDGE type for Four. The high bidder sets the color as trump and plays with his partner's hand as a dummy. What constitutes a trick is not very clear, some-thing about completing a word and more than one card from a player may be required. (Sheet in Ad Clips)

(cont. on 5/21)

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English WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
1967 144th day - 221 days to come


(cont. from 5/23) [5/22]
The players have cards which are compared between
players, one confrontation at a time. The loser
must kick away one of his stepping stones and share
one with a team mate. Continue, I guess, until one
team has no place left to stand.
BALAROO :- Cardboard figures of various characters (wtih
a Western motif) are set in a circle. A ball with a on
a pendulum is activated by a battery and moves a-
round knocking over the figures. Players bet on the
last three figures standing (win, place, and show).
STRATEGY POKER :- A poker variation using a board and which
is supposed to be good for two players. (Didn't look at details.)
WORD WILD :- CATEGORIES with this difference. Players
use only on slips of paper with the category
listed. Each player starts with one. They try to
put in the first letter of a suitable word. Then
the slips are passed around and players try to put
in a letter on the slip they get. Players iden-
tify their letters with their number. Score for num-
ber of letters correctly placed. A timer tells when
to pass the slips.
WORD OUT :- Don't remember this one.
ONE MORE TIME :- This is similar to CENTENNIAL (see
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF GAMES by Wood & Goddard).
A triple on the dice is wild in some way (don't re-
member exactly how).
KRESKIN'S ESP :- Saw it demonstrated by Kreskin. It is defin-
itely not a game.
Gary & Reidel:-
AL-PHA-BET :- A word game using 60 cards. The letters are
divided into 5 sets of 12, each colored differ-
ently. The black set consists all of only vowels.
The basic game consists of forming words
(probably by drawing from the deck - altho I don't
quite remember). The word must contain a black vowel
in order to score. The length of the word also enters
into the score and if it is also a word backwards it
is counted both ways.
There are 3 "advanced ways of playing as follows:-

ALPHA :- They say it is a "rummy" type but it appeared to be more like Anagrams ANAGRAMS.
BETA :- A solitaire version very much like BALI.
CAPA :- A BRIDGE type for Four. The high bidder sets the color as trump and plays with his partner's hand as a dummy. What constitutes a trick is not very clear, some-thing about completing a word and more than one card from a player may be required. (Sheet in Ad Clips)
(cont. on 5/21)
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