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Title
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1967_Sackson_310_October 17.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
TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 1967
290th day - 75 days to come
Claude stopped at the office to show me his new game of
TEN LITTLE INDIANS. There are a series of "clue cards".
Some say have positive statements such as "General and Doctor"
are drowned". Others have conditional statements such as
"If Doctor is drowned, Emily, Blore, & Marston are poisoned." They
are turned up from a deck one at a time and placed on a
table. Only two positive statements (which are distinctively marked)
can be used, but as many of the others as are necessary
to show that 9 characters have been murdered, setting the
10th as the murdered. Actually the game is set up so that
the two positive statements eliminate four of the characters and
all that is necessary to match the other cards to these two
till the right ones show up. Once a player knows this, there
is no game.
Claude had picked up a game for me for 30¢ at Vessy St. Later
I found out it was SIXTY-FOUR, which I had seen advertised
in a 1955 Playthings Magazine.
Alice called to ask for Claude's phone number. She wanted to know
when he was coming to pick up EGGHEAD POKER. Told her
he was on his way.
She wrote to Bill Caruson asking him about BAZAAR.
