Games
The Decimal Shopping Game
When the UK made its switch from old-style currency to decimal currency, this board game was issued to help familiarize people with the new mode.Currently, a copy is for sale at UK eBay, where more pix await your inspection.
Board Game Geek has just a placeholder entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 08, 2022 -
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Category: Boredom, Games, Money, 1970s, United Kingdom
Script-Analyzer, the game
1957: Ideal Toy Co. came out with "Script-Analyzer," the game that promised to let kids psychoanalyze their parents through the magic of handwriting analysis.
NY Daily News - Mar 4, 1957
Vancouver Sun - Apr 2, 1957
"A handwriting game being analysed by members of the Ideal Toy panel on Inventor's Day at the Ideal Toy Company in Hollis, New York."
NY Daily News - Mar 5, 1956
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 16, 2022 -
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Category: Games, 1950s
Melvin Purvis’s G-Men Detective Game
Play along with current headlines!
The object of the game is to capture the Public Enemy. The player who brings a G-Man together with the Public Enemy wins the game. The game starts with one G-Man chasing the public enemy, but after 30 minutes a second can be brought into play.
More pix and info here.
Melvin Purvis at Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 13, 2022 -
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Category: Crime, Games, 1930s
Dispatcher: The Board Game
Just as exciting as it sounds!More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 30, 2022 -
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Category: Boredom, Games, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1950s
The Gourmet Game
Here's a predecessor for all those competitive cooking shows and restaurant makeover shows.
Each player has his own board, which is in the form of a menu. Dishes include classic haute cuisine and are name in English and French (you'll soon learn the French words and their correct pronunciation). Six cards are dealt to each player, and as a player takes new cards from the deck or does discarded by his opponents he gradually puts together a gourmet meal. To win, however, he must order the right dishes and beverages, and must prevent other players from ordering.
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 20, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Games, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1970s
Panko: The Suffragette Card Game
See more cards and history here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 24, 2022 -
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Category: Games, Politics, 1910s, Women
Blow Football
Or as we call it today, "Spread the Covid."This game went through several editions since its 1910 origin. See pictures at Board Game Geek.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 13, 2022 -
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Category: Games, Sports, Viruses, Germs and Other Sources of Infection
Two Richard Nixon Chess Sets
In 1971, when Nixon was still flying high, he got the honor of his own adulatory chess set.In 1973, he got one devoted to Watergate.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 16, 2022 -
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Category: Games, Politics, Disgrace, Shame, Infamy and Downfalls, 1970s
Uranium Rush Board Game
More pics and info at Board Game Geek.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 07, 2021 -
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Category: Games, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
Atomic Chess
Atomic Chess is a variant of chess that was invented by Nasouhi Bey Tahir, the Transjordanian Deputy Minister of Agriculture, in 1949. Most of its rules were the same as the traditional game except that it was played on a larger board (of 144 squares) and when a pawn was promoted it would become an 'atomic bomb'. When used it would annihilate all pieces (of both players) within a radius of six squares from the object of attack.The game also involved two other pieces, a tank and airplane, but I'm not sure how these were used.
Sydney Morning Herald - May 1, 1949
Chess.com describes a different version of Atomic Chess, that it says was introduced in 2000. This newer variant is played on a standard board, with the twist that "whenever a piece is captured, an 'explosion' reaching all the squares immediately surrounding the captured piece occurs. This explosion kills all of the pieces in its range except for pawns." Therefore, every capture, except by a pawn, is suicidal.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 22, 2021 -
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Category: Games, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1940s
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