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However this game was somewhat different than previous versions. It was either thirty-six or forty-nine squares. All four corners had a power circle so that two, three or four players could play simultaneously. Then I had to write instructions and have them printed. I don't think they had copy centers as of yet then. I purchased pizza style boxes flat and square to contain the board, tokens and instructions. I set up a factory assembly line to package the product.
How I was going to sell it I have no idea. But as soon as I worked out all the manufacturing conveniences, I lost interest and abandoned the project with about a dozen finished and boxed. I gave them to friends who I have no doubt never looked at them. But I had done it all except for the tokens, which I thought I could design and make as either ceramic or plaster casts. It was the most difficult aspect of the project so I never got around to it. I used glass globular tokens of four colors.
After that of probably a few years later, I invented a card game or rather many games, based on the same set of cards, which was instead of numbers the alphabet. Each card was a letter of the alphabet. And the deck was as much as an unwieldy one-hundred cards, necessary to get three vowel cards like A's or E's or I's. The object was to make a word from what one held in the hand.
I had no one to play my card games with and had to play myself. I wanted to get a critique of my game. I had been told that the action was now in video games and so was wasting my time.
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