New Britain herald., 1930-12-15

Games old and new are available for the old and young. Camelot (above) is brand new, combines chess and checkers, and pleascs anyone above 1 0 years of age Back. gammon tupper righD is the gamc all America is playing. Horse racing games (below) are having q Nogul and this one can be played by onl 10 four persons. Many old tayorit cs appear in entertaining new forms tC give the Christmas shopper an un- usually varied list from which tc select.
 New York, Dec. 15.-Why not be a game sport this Christmas? Make your relatives and friends play and play and play,
 There are games for everybody on the market this year. Some are designed especially for the Is months old child. Some were made expressly for the invalid or the traveller, And for children,
 
 upwards Of 500 to choose from.
 The new game out this year. good for anyone over 10 or I2 years, iS Carnelot It savors both of chess and checkers. being not so difficult as chess and yet much more fascinating than checkers. Two play it on d board marked in two kinds of Colored squares. Re- vlved this year and running very strong is backganmon. You can get it in ordinary board and count CTS or in de luxe fashion, with either an inlaid table top or a port able backgammon cover for an or dlnary card table. Badminton is another game revived, which is having quite q vogue.
 Variety in All Games
 Bang, Hegity, Wei Chi, a German game called Halma, and the old standbys ct checkers and chess.
 Games Of chance arc trcmend- ously popular this year. There arc electric racing games and games such is Derby Day which use dicc. There are at least 15 versions Of the old-time Parchccsi. the latest being the Big Trail which. instead Of sending q man homo 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 well as children, Anagrans 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 popula-' Authors, the old game Pit, Flincn, Old Maid, Rock and many. other similar games Of this kind.
 Poard games are excellent for children and enjoyed by adults too. The crokihole board on which several games can be played is a universal favorite. Pollyanna still lives and is popular. East is East and Uncle Wiggly are favorites.
 Soldiers are back with us again, 12 years after the great War There are many shooting games. too, with Hick-ty-Fickc,y, Five Wise Birds end other versions Of them giving VarjetN
 Good old -winks ap- pears III so many new dresses that it is hard to list them ali Some hop the men over barnyard fowls, horses and pigs. Others try 10 jump them into pockets in q board, each pocket having a different count.
 Combination boxes, houses. or cases Of games ar' de luxe sius thIs Christmas. 1omr include q dozen games iu oug
 For uyaliGa or 1rNolors there are puzzle pictures, in about lgp different varieties. Costumes pug zlcs are among the dc luxe types, with the finished puzzle q gorgeous lady Of another day. There are geographic puzzles, word puzzles. and many others.
 For Child Players
 For the children there are Nari- ous versions Of the old bean bag, ring toss, jack straws, jacks. For the wee ones just turned IS months there are Play Sticks, col orcd with vegetable matter so a child may put thom in his mouth without injury, Bead Boxes. Big Ball Nosaics, Block Wagons, and other color matching games.
 AS the child gets q little older all the Kindergarten paraphcruaIla is available. Still older there are stencil games, weaving ones and CraTon 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