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Title
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1972_Sackson_254_August 21.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1972
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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 10, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1972
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
8/20
8/19
21 MONDAY - AUGUST 1972
234th DAY - 132 DAYS TO COME
Herb Hochstetter called and arranged for me to meet him at
{Listfax Corp.
{1370 6th Ave. (12th Fl.)
{489-6700
Phil called and said that the date was changed to Riess at 4:30
instead of 5 at Carl's. Said I might be late.
Downtown. In F.A.O. Schwartz saw a game CASTELLO by Brio of Sweden.
Each player has 30 pcs. Started as shown.
[Large diagram of a 21 x 15 grid board. 15 white circles are in each of the 2 leftmost columns. 15 black circles are in each of the 2 rightmost columns. 11 of the other interior spaces are marked with a * (asterisk). The play area seems to be divided into 3 'fields' of 7 columns each.]
Pcs. move one space in any direction
or jump over pcs. friendly or enemy.
Enemy pieces are taken when jumped, but
there is a limit of 5. After the 5th the jumping pc.
stops immediately.
Object is to capture 4 towers, which 11 of which
are set up in the starred spaces. A tower is captured
by getting three pcs. orthogonally around it.
A player can only capture in the far field and in the
center field. One capture tower at least must be captured in the far
field before one in the center can be captured. A player may
place his pcs. next to towers in his near field, for defense.
Rcd. a letter from Dan Greenwood asking him for some descriptive
material to go with the Xerox picture of GETTYSBURG,
and ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II.
Rcd. 3 of Roger Verhulst's columns from the CHICAGO TRIBUNE,
from Tom Shaw. No note. THE GODFATHER GAME, DIPLOMACY,
and one with WOMEN'S LIB & HE-SHE-HIM-HER.
Rcd. the PUZZLE with the three parts to form a pyramid back
from Jerry D'Arcey. Also a letter. Mentioned CONTIGO.
Called Martin Gardner. He and Charlotte will come to visit
sometime soon after Labor Day. Told him that I had the
IMPUZZABLES. There is no hurry to be able to get them in his
column. He has some GAME ideas sent in by readers.
After F.A.O. Schwartz, met Herb Hochstetter at Listfax. Gave him a copy
of AGOG. He called his contact at Gray advertising. They,
Post that is, is interested ina GAME to be
put on the box, with a plastic bag of equipment on the
inside. They are talking about paying 32 [cents] for the equipment. Anything
that it costs less will be our profit. The quantity may be
up to 10,000,000. Herb told the fellow that there is no one
(cont. on 8/20)
