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Title
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1967_Sackson_164_May 24.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1967
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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 5, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1967
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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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)
