The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-05
500 Kinds
Are ShO7U11
for Adults
BY JULIA BLANSHARD,
NEA Service Writer

FAA SttfA1t nAANtA
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.--Why not
be a game sport this Christmas?
Make your relatives and friends
play and play and playl
There are games for everybody
on the market this year. Some are
designed especially for the 18-
months-old child. Some were made
expressly for the invalid or the
traveller. And for children, Adde'S
cents and adults, there are upward
OF 500 to choose from.
The new game out this year, good
for any one over 10 or u years, is
Camelot 1t savors both of chess
and checkers, being not so difficult
as chess and yet much more fascin-
ating than checkers. Two play it
on board marked in two kinds of
colored squares.
Revived this year and running
very strong is backgammon. You
can get it in ordinary board and
counters or in deluxe fashion, with
either an inlaid table top or a port /
able backgammon cover for an Or
binary card table. Badminton is
another game revived, which is hay
ing quite a vogue.
Variety in ALI Games
In games of all skill there are Go
Bang, Pegity, Wei Chi, German
game called Halma, and the old
standbys Of checkers and chess.
Games OF chance are tremend-
ously popular this year. There are
electric racing games and games
such as Derby Day which use dice.
There are at least fifteen versions
Of the old-time Parcheesi, the latest
being the Big Trail, which, instead
Of sending a man home to start
over again, captures Indians or
loses pioneers, wagons and horses.
Roulette is popular, and there
are a dozen or so novelty games
based on roulette.
For adults as we'll as children,
Anagrams are having a tremend-
Gus vogue. You can get ineXpen-
sive or de luxe sets of this game.
Card games that are being sold
in quantity this year include the
ever popular. Authors, the old game
Pit, Finch, Old Maid, Rock and
many other similar games of this
kind
CroIxinOle Is FavOrite
Board games are excellent for
children and enjoyed by adults too.
The crokinole board on which |
several games can be played is a
universal favorite. Pollyanna still |
lives end is popular. East is East |
and Uncle Wiggly are favorites.
Soldiers are back with us again, |
twelve years after the Great war.
There are many shooting games,
too, with Hickety-P ickety, Five
Wise Birds and other versions of |
them giving variety.
Good old tiddle-de-w inkS appears |
in so many new dresses that it is
hard to list them all. Some hop
the men over barnyard fowls, horses
and pigs. Others try to jump them |
into pockets in a board each pocket /
having different count
Combination boxes, houses, or |
cases of games are de luxe gifts
this Christmas. Some include a
dozen games in one.
Puzzle Pictures Galore
For invalids or travellers, there |
are puzzle pictures, in about 100 |
different varieties. Costumes puz-
zleS are among the de luxe types,
with the finished puzzle a gorgeous
lady of another day. There are |
geographic puzzles, word puzzles,
and many others.
For the children there are vari-
GUS versions of the old bean bag, |
ring toss, jack straws, jacks. For
the wee ones just turned 18
months there are play sticks, COL
ored with vegetable matter so a
child may put them in his mouth
without injury, bead boxes, big
ball mosaics, block wagons and
other color-matching games.
AS the child gets a little older
all the kindergarten paraphernalia
IS available. Still older, there are
stencil games, weaving ones and
crayon competitions.
Whatever the age, whatever the
outlook of your friends and rela-
tives, if you are in doubt what to
give them for Christmas you might
take a chance and let games come
to your rescue.