Word: parcheesi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...County. As a freshman in politics he met James Dowsey, also a Nassau County Republican. At Dowsey's home in Manhasset, Hall met his host's daughter, Gladys, a pretty mother of two, who was separated from her husband. After her divorce Hall courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down...
...Rigid Tongue. What is Scrabble? It is a game, its defenders say, that combines the cerebrations of anagrams and crosswords with the competitive joys of such older indoor sports as Monopoly and Parcheesi. A player gets seven counters in the draw, each with a letter and a number. The numbers relate to the letters' frequency of use. The five vowels count only one point each, while "Z" counts ten. A player moves by spelling out a word on the board, and his score is the numerical value of the counters plus the value of any premium squares...