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Title
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1968_Sackson_295_October 03.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
10/2
THURSDAY 3 OCTOBER 1968
St. Theresa
277th day - 89 days to come
Alice called. Neither of us heard from Bill Caruson. Told of rejection
from Parker.
Bought a Czech dictionery from slavic importer of Slavic books
on our floor - $4.
Thinking of a GAME based on the idea Lech sent in his last
letter. A board has squares with numbers Each player has
10 dominos [crossed out] all combinations of the numbers 1 to 5
but not including doubles. The board is 12x12 and has the
numbers 1 to 5 and also blank spaces, which are wild.
The dominos are placed on the board so that the numbers
match the spaces. After the pcs. are on the board
(manner to be determined) players in turn move one pc.
to another place where it touches another pc. (to be
determined whether diagonal is acceptable). A pc. placed so
that it touches an opponent's picece (diagonally to be determined)
captures the piece. However it must of course
be next to one of the player's own pieces and also it must
have come from the same group that it is placed into.
Object (probably) to move across to the opponent's
home row. Winning move can only be made from the same
group that the piece is placed against. (To be tried out).
Arthur called, He has a game (later named BORDERLINE)
to show me next Tuesday.
Jim Dunnigan over. He brought me copies of 1914 and BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
Jim is working together with Chris Wagner who is president
of project Analysis Corp. (P.A.C.). He is the publisher of
STRATEGY & TACTICS which has articles on war games. Jim
will get me a free subscription. He thinks I might be able
to write an article about my games and have it published
in the magazine.
P.A.C. is going to put out a "Simulation Series" of war
games. They will sell, mainly mail order, for $4. The first
one, due in November, will be TANNENBERG done by Jim.
It is an eastern front equivelent of 1914 but A-H gave permission
to use it. Another game which he has had success with
which will probably be in the series is TACTICAL ARMOR GAME-RUSSIAN FRONT.
For A-H Jim has done WALL STREET, which is being playtested
by them. At first they wanted an historically based
game but now have changed it to an abstract game, Jim
wanted to do another war game for them but they are having
someone else do next year's (even the JUTLAND and
particularly 1914. have done very well).
For Gamescience (Renwal) Jim is working on SINAI-1967
based on Israel war. Also an “Astrology" GAME. He has also
done a CHESS variation called POLICHESS played on a
( cont. on 10/2)
