Word: parchesi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous-the only dice he had ever owned had come with parchesi and backgammon sets...
...Combat. The war games are generally ingenious, attractive, and in some cases have wartime educational value. Spot-a-plane Game, approved by the U.S. Army & Navy Air Forces, and of obvious value to airplane spotters, is of the parchesi-type. Players progress around the board from "TakeOff" point to "Mission Accomplished" by identifying correctly the silhouettes of pages of the belligerent nations. Since there are 48 silhouettes provided (main omission: the Jap Zero), Spot-a-plane will seem to most adults more like hard work than fun, but air-minded boys like...
Best new children's game is Ranger Commandos, a parchesi-type in which little barges set out across open water, zigzag to landings, and move little wooden commando pieces inland to destroy such objectives as a tank factory, railroad yards, munitions plant, etc. Players return posthaste, unless captured, whenever any player lands on a spot marked with an enemy sentry. First one back with the most points of destruction wins...
...home last week. OPM ruled: no more golf, tennis, squash, hand-balls. Stricken sportsmen, brooding on the last bounce of the last ball, swamped stores (one sports shop sold 2,000 dozen golf balls by 11 a.m.). Other gamesters planned to take up games priorities could never affect: croquet, parchesi...