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Baseball reduces well to a game with a playing board, dice and statistics-it is virtually motionless even in real life-and the best of several versions, its adherents insist, is Stratomatic Baseball. To make the game more realistic, the strengths and weaknesses of real baseballers were fed into a computer by the designers. These in turn affect the strengths and weaknesses of Stratomatic players; one scholar at Atlanta's Emory University punched his fist through two windows last year after losing at Stratomatic. New York teenager Chris Boeth can play a solitaire game in about 13 minutes...
...tank-warfare re-creation Tobruk. Dunnigan's firm also imagines wars that have not yet happened: the one between the Soviets and the Chinese, the Canadian civil war, the invasion of America. The Pentagon buys Dunnigan's games, he says (and presumably plays with his maps and dice and cardboard counters), and so do the CIA and the Soviet embassy. Hobbyists gather every week at the Compleat Strategist, a Manhattan shop specializing in war-game paraphernalia, to play out SPI and Avalon Hill battles with divisions of 25-mm. toy soldiers...
...Cooking is a sensual experience, and when men and women dice and slice and saute in tandem, other juices than those of the good beef flow. Says Julia Child: "The family that cooks together, stays together." The man in the kitchen soon learns to appreciate the degree of love and labor that his wife puts into the feeding of a family?and where the household budget goes. New Jersey Cookmates Joyce and Louis Harvey say they could never get divorced: "Who would get the Cuisinart, and who the KitchenAid mixer...
Even if your athletic ambitions are limited to throwing dice and moving around a board, people will always buy new board games. One of this year's offerings, "The Social Security Game" claims no resemblance to the governmental version--because this game, its boosters say, actually gives you some security...
...crowded Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos, where $2 billion changes hands each year, security guards crawl along steel catwalks and watch for cheaters through one-way ceiling mirrors. Near by, cashiers match bingo winners against a computerized list of more than 4,000 cards. Players who switch cards, load dice or pinch bets pose a constant threat to profitability. So does the danger of thievery by employees: to discourage theft, cash from the company's 3,900 gaming tables and slot machines is counted under the watchful eye of closed-circuit television cameras. To prevent overstaffing in the casinos...