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Got tired of waiting for Bill Tyler and went down to game dept.<br> | Got tired of waiting for Bill Tyler and went down to game dept.<br> | ||
Looked at games: Skor-Mor: - <u>5IVE STRAIGHT</u>; this is <br> | Looked at games: Skor-Mor: - <u>5IVE STRAIGHT</u>; this is <br> | ||
undoubtedly | undoubtedly the same as <u>99</u> (see 5 x 3 card file) - the board<br> | ||
is the same as the one on the second card except that<br> | |||
the "X" space is replaced with an "O". <u>YESTERYEAR</u> - move<br> | |||
a long a board and answer questions. <u>PRIME TIME</u>. (Didn't<br> | |||
look in any of the Skor-Mor packages - shrink wrapped.)<br> | |||
<u>WORDMATE</u> (Family Toys, Inc. - Boonton, N.J. 07005). Letters<br> | |||
with point values show at windows - abt 15 or more in a row.<br> | |||
Apparently the whole alphabet on each. (Again couldn't look<br> | |||
inside.)<br> | |||
University Creations Inc. <u>INVEST</u>, which at home I discovered<br> | |||
was the same as a game published in 1958 by "Research & Promotion<br> | |||
Co.", and that <u>Phil Orbanes</u> gave me. <u>ROADBLOCK</u>; there are 16 wood<br> | |||
pieces, 14 [Small diagram of a box with a line connecting top to bottom and another line connecting center to right] and 2 [Small diagram of a box with a line connecting top to bottom and a line connecting left to right - like a plus sign '+'].<br> | |||
These are put at random in a 4 x 4 frame, except<br> | |||
that the 2 "+" pcs. cannot be next to each other (including diagonally?).<br> | |||
There is a plastic overlay with a number of U.S. cities, located so that<br> | |||
they are in the quadrants of the pcs. - no more than 1 in any quadrant.<br> | |||
A number of "trips" including different nos. of cities are noted.<br> | |||
Each has a basic score and a bonus per move for solving in less<br> | |||
(cont. on 12/4) | |||