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Title
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1968_Sackson_100_March 22.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1968
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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 6, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1968
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
Friday 22 March 1968
82nd day - 284 days to come
Rcd. a call from Wes Sayre from Queens (LA 5-2718). He rcd. my
name from Gamescience and he asked me if I wanted to
play CONFRONTATION by mail. Told him, regretfully, no.
Called Jules Cooper. They will try keeping the detective games for
another year. They will do more radio advertising. Last year
they used radio in New York and that is the only place the games
did well. He told me about the new game AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.
When 4 play there are 8 cards, from 1 to 8. Each player is
dealt two cards (the character who is the murdererin the book)
and the one who received #1 (the character who is the murderer
in the book) is the murderer. In turn the players ask
the other players questions (one question to a chosen opponent).
Questions are about the numbers, such as "Is your lower
card less than 3?" - "Is your total odd?" - but cannot be a
direct question such as "Do you have no. 4?" The murderer
may lie if he wishes. Others must tell the truth. The mur-
derer wins if he correctly determines the numbers that
each of the other players have. One of the other players
wins if he determines who is the murderer and what his
two cards are.
When 3 play a 9th card (#9 I suppose ) is used and
each gets 3 cards. The murderer may not lie about his
middle card.
Only 4 or 3 can play.
Played 5-hand FAIR TRADE with the family and Joe. They felt that
there was not enough incentive to try and get a set of 12. We
tried the game with a set of 10 required to win instead of 12. This
seemed to improve things. Later I thought of the idea of having
two winners. The first to get a set takes 60 chips out of the
pot. The winning cards are removed from the game and it then
continues until another set is formed. This player then takes the
remainder of the pot.
