The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-14
SHOPPERS BECOME GAME HUNTERS
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By JULIA nrANsHARD NEA Service Writer

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 New York-Americans are be- coming vsritabie game hunters. Almost all the big. department stores have been obliged to open regular games sections to accom- rnodate the crowds that want to buy games for Christmas. Doesn't this signify how pleasing your gifts viii be if they are game ones?
 Baeateile is the favorite family game. played alone or played with as many people as want to crowd around to try their hand at Q big score. There are all kinds or bngateile, little boards and big ones. some even as low as ten cents. Badminton comes in again as c popular house sport, with nets that can be placed across two chairs, if you lack a table for ping pong. Ping pong and table tennis are high fn favor, especially where there are children in the home.
 This Is . Puzzling Craze.
 Puzzles threaten to become the great American indoor sport this season. Around the country right now there are circulating libraries of puzzles, charging varied amounts per week, depending on the num- bsr of bits of jig-saw puzzle to be put together. There now Is an
 aetire outfit on the market where by you make your own tig-saw puzzles. One neat variation of this is the idea of using snap shot of the children or friends, having it made into a puzzle which will surprise those working 1t to see their own faces show up at them. Department stores and some pho- tographic stores make these up for you. This new set shows you how to make your own variations of the puzzle craze, and include puzzles which depict your favorite city, here or abroad, different stores in which you shop, rural scenes that delight you, whole mena- zerie of animals which the chill dren will love. and at least a dozen different topics, including some famous old paintings.
 Other puzzles are the kind, like marble solitaire, which you can work alone or with kibitzers. There are even little "goining to sleep" puzzles or puzzles to put the bath tub to work while soaking.
 ola fashioned parchesi reap pears in about 50 different games this year. Prosperity, where you can choose the road of Good Luck. Real Estate and other routes, is a favorite. So is the one where you start to the country club and have to detour, get fined for passing a corner where lights are wrong, and have to go to the judge and pay as fine.
 Pun Billiards and Horse Racing.
 Puff billiards is a new game. just silly enough to be fascinating. Three people play it. or nine can play, in relay teams. Various golf ideas have been worked out this year.
 All kinds of horse racing games Ire Ao be had. Perhaps the most popular ones are those run by elec- EHicitv, where you won or lose ac- cording to which light stays on last. Roulette comes to the fore as the most popular of all games that you can place a friendly bet bn.
 For men of the house, amagrams are the outstanding favorite. Ana grams tax their brain power. Chess players invariably like anagrams. too. So do newspaper folks, or anybody with literary 1eanings and h good vocabulary. You can get them for 20 cents or for $35, de- on the material used. You can even get them in old-fashioned building blocks, giving the younger heir or heiress of the household a head start in learning English.
 There are new bridge-card de- Signs galore.
 Checkers, in double nine boxes. hre on the up and up, according 10 game buyers. Children like nheckers and adults are beginning to play them again.
 Since 1t is to be a home-winter and since home-entertaining is be- ing revived as one of the higher hrts, any family can use any num- Der of games that they all can play.