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Title
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1969_Sackson_097_March 18.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1969
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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 7, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1969
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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 18 MARCH 1969
77th day - 288 days to come
Called Fabio and made a date for tomorrow.
Claude called to say he was going to Arthur's tonight and inviting
me. Would have liked to go but too tired. Claude wants
to try out a stock market game - MANIPULATION. We set a
date for next Wednesday.
Late in evening Claude called from Arthur's. Then Wald told
me about the game. There is a circular board with about 30
spaces. There are 4 stock markers which are started six
spaces apart. Each player in turn throws 1 die and moves
the stock he previously announced before throwing. There
is a chart giving the value of each stock and this varies
with the position of the four stock markers on the board
in relation to each other. There is a dividing line on the
board from which position is measured. No two markers can be in
the same space and if a count brings one to an occupied
space it is put in the next vacant space ahead. Players at any
time can buy and sell stock. There is a limited amount
of money in the bank and when a player sells stock for more
money than the bank has remaining he gets only as much as is
available and the game is over. Stock has no value now and
the player with most money wins.
Wald said that the player who was ahead tended to get ahead faster
since he could invest in more stocks.
Wald had an idea for an extension of THREE but it didn't
work out.
The rules for MY SON THE DOCTOR finally came from
What-cha-ma-call it.
Abercrombie & Fitch advertised COMPUTER COMPUTER BASEBALL
which they say they persuaded the people who did
COMPUTER FOOTBALL to do. It looks just about the same. They say it
was the best selling game they ever had (football that is).
