• Sid Sackson (February 4, 1920 in Chicago – November 6, 2002) was an American board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business...
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  • Games by Sid Sackson in 1969. The other was featured in a computer game by Sierra Online in 1988. This solitaire game was designed by Sid Sackson, and published...
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  • A Gamut of Games is an innovative book of games written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969. It contains rules for a large number of paper and...
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  • politician Sid Sackson (1920–2002), American board game designer and collector Sid Schacht (1918–1991), American professional baseball player Sid Scholey...
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    Focus (board game) (category Sid Sackson games)
    Focus is an abstract strategy board game, designed by Sid Sackson and first published in 1963 by Kosmos. The game has been re-published many times since...
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    checkers. Blue and Gray was featured in the book A Gamut of Games (1969) by Sid Sackson. It was also featured in The Book of Classic Board Games (1991) by Klutz...
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  • Can't Stop (board game) (category Sid Sackson games)
    Can't Stop is a board game designed by Sid Sackson originally published by Parker Brothers in 1980; however, that edition has been long out of print in...
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    Fields of Action (category Sid Sackson games)
    Games, Sid Sackson described the abstract strategy game Lines of Action (LOA) designed by Claude Soucie. In 1982, LOA and a variation by Sackson titled...
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    known in the English-speaking world and among hobbyist gamers after Sid Sackson included it in his popular book A Gamut of Games (1969), it being a translation...
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  • Cobb. Death Stacks can be classified as a variant of the game Focus by Sid Sackson, published in A Gamut of Games. The Annual Death Stacks Tournament is...
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    Acquire (category Sid Sackson games)
    wins. When Sid Sackson was a child, he played a Milton Bradley gambling-themed board game titled Lotto. When he became a game designer, Sackson reworked...
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  • Australia Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling Rio Grande Games 2005 BuyWord Sid Sackson Face2Face Games 2004 New England Alan Moon and Aaron Weissblum Überplay...
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    of games such as Agricola, Le Havre, Patchwork, and several others. Sid Sackson was a prolific American game designer whose games, particularly Acquire...
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  • captured. In 1975, the board game surrounding the trap was redesigned by Sid Sackson, adding the cheese pieces and allowing the player to maneuver opponents...
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  • Black Monday (card game) (category Sid Sackson games)
    Barry Ellis, writing in The Game Report, noted "Practically any game by Sid Sackson is a joy to play, as it invariably has simple rules yet ample opportunities...
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  • New York City. This game was first published in A Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson in 1969. Wald Amberstone co-founded the Tarot School in 1995 along with...
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  • I'm the Boss! (category Sid Sackson games)
    I'm the Boss! is a board game by American designer Sid Sackson. It is a negotiation game in which a group of players compete and cooperate to put together...
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  • like Acquire and TwixT. The authors of the last two games mentioned, Sid Sackson and Alex Randolph, respectively, had a significant influence on the further...
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  • an abstract strategy board game by Haar Hoolim. It was published in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games. The game is notable in that, like the traditional...
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  • the United States by Atmar Enterprises and shown at the 1978 Toy Fair; Sid Sackson noted it "offers some new twists on Stratego, including ... an arbiter...
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  • Eric Solomon, Gyles Brandreth, Nick Palmer, R. C. Bell, Richard Sharp, Sid Sackson and Tony Buzan. This gave it a good reputation; for example, Popular...
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  • Shaler created a game titled Go and See. In 1973, American game designer Sid Sackson revised Shaler's game with her permission; the new game was titled Jet...
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    Parlett Ravensburger 1980 Rummikub Ephraim Hertzano Intelli 1981 Focus Sid Sackson Parker 1982 Enchanted Forest Alex Randolph and Michel Matschoss Ravensburger...
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  • poker hand Domination, also known as Focus, a 1964 game designed by Sid Sackson Domination (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing game DomiNations...
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  • BuyWord (category Sid Sackson games)
    game. BuyWord is a letter arrangement word game by American designer Sid Sackson. It is published by Face2Face Games. 108 letter tiles with varying numbers...
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  • the object of Tri-Nim, which is to finish last." In A Gamut of Games, Sid Sackson described Tri-nim as "the ultimate in Nim games." "Tri-Nim Game". National...
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    "butterbox". In 1962, 3M commissioned game designers Alex Randolph and Sid Sackson to design the early games and they were largely responsible for shaping...
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  • joueur") F5 = Pay 5 to the following player ("Payez 5 au suivant") Sid Sackson's holographic notes omit the F5 space. This version uses the full 25-tile...
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  • Venture (video game), a 1981 arcade game Venture, a strategic card game by Sid Sackson SS Venture, a ship in King Kong and its 2005 remake SS Venture, an InGen-owned...
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  • Patterns II (category Sid Sackson games)
    Patterns II is a pencil and paper game developed by Sid Sackson for 3 or more players. It emphasizes the use of inductive logic and scientific analysis...
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