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Title
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1969_Sackson_186_June 15.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
SUNDAY 15 JUNE
Father's Day
Second Sunday after Trinity 1969 166th day - 199 days to come
Thought of playing TEMPO allowing diagonal moves with diag-
onal flanking. Tried a few games by myself and it
seems good.
Looked at the magazines I got from Chris Wagner last week.
The only one of real interest was THE IFW MONTHLY. Vol. 2
no. 1 (Jan. '69) had a CHESS variant, reviews of several
games for sale by mail order:- TRAFALGAR, ARBELA,
DIEN BIEN PHU, FIGHT IN THE SKIES, COMPANY COMMANDER, BLINTZKRIEG,
KOREA, POLAND '39, YORKTOWN, OPERATION: PACIFIC--WWII, ARMADA,
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, PREATORIA, MADRID, WAR OF EMPIRE,
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. There is an article about games other
than war games. Mentions a lot of 3M games, but not ACQUIRE.
Prepared a listing of my game classification and a letter for
Information Resources.
Looked at the TAM-BIT contract. O.K. except for the quar-
terly payment of royalties. We'll add this.
(cont. from 6/19) [6/20]
I said that it could be an interesting pastime if the participants
get into the swing of it, but that it isn't a game. They insist that
it is the ultimate game. When Henry Pelham Burn of PACE magazine
came over they with his associate they played it and were
fascinated. Henry is trying to get the senior editor to run an art-
icle on it.
After Wald left Arthur showed me the HIGH DECK PUZZLE.
Two houses are chosen to be played with, the other two are
placed face down (as shown shaded in
the diagram). The two chosen houses are
shuffled and placed face up as shown.
[diagram to left: three rows of eight cards each.
First row: white with "V O," shaded, white, shaded, white, shaded, white, shaded.
Second row: shaded, white, shaded, white, shaded, white with "K O," shaded, white.
Third row: white, shaded, white, shaded, white, shaded, white, shaded.]
The companion card of that in the up-
per left hand corner is the one that
must end up on top. (The KO in the diagram.)
A card (or pile) can be moved one space
orthogonally, over a face down card or
one space diagonally. A blank space (where a card was
removed) can never be passed over.
A card [crossed out] or pile can be placed on a card (or pile) as long
as the cards are of the same hierarchy (minor or major) and are
either the same rank or of adjacent ranks, or are companions
(M on L, etc.) House is never considered, except in determin-
ing the card that has to end up on top.
Haar Hoolim sent me the copy of BOARD & TABLE GAMES FROM
(cont. on 6/14)
