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SUNDAY 14 JANUARY Second Sunday after Epiphany 1968 14th day - 352 days to come

Thinking of a game ELECTION CHECKERS. There are a number of patents with this type of game. It is played with on an enlarged checkerboard and each players checkers have the states shown on them with the electoral votes. Capturing an opponent's pc. gives the capturer those electoral votes. My addition is to give the electoral votes to the first player capturing that state. The second player capturing that state only makes a capture but gets no votes. Another idea for a game of the same name would be to have some 80 checkers with states on them, one each of the smaller states and greater numbers of the larger states. These are set up at random on an 9 x 9 qua grid, leaving one vacant space in the center. Players in turn make a single jump to a vacant space, taking the checker jumped. States with only one checker belong to the player capturing it. Those with more than one checker belong to the last player capturing one. When no more jumps are possible and a player has not yet won the election the game continues with each player choosing any checker they wish on a turn.