Game of CONTACK
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: Parker Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: CONTACK is a game for two to seven people played with thirty-six triangular pieces. Each of the equilateral triangles is divided in thirds, the three isosceles triangles are colored differently, and each edge is a different color. A number is printed in each of these smaller triangles. At the beginning of the game, each player draws five pieces. Players try, by matching color and number or by matching color and making certain scoring totals to play all the pieces from their hands and make as large a score as possible. The instructions also describe solitaire versions of the game.
label: Description
content: The blue, gold and red cardboard pieces are arranged in groups of six to form hexagons and stacked in a cardboard box. The rules also fit in the box.
label: Description
content: Pencil marks on the box indicate that it was priced at various times to sell for 15 cents and 25 cents. A paper tag in the box gives a price of 15-, presumably 15 dollars.
label: Description
content: A mark printed on the lid reads: COPYRIGHT 1939 (/) PARKER BROTHERS, INC. (/) SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS. Another mark there reads: FASCINATING GAME (/) *CONTACK* (/) TRADE MARK PATENT PENDING.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Salem
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collected-for-the-Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.3107.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2013.3107
label: catalog number
content: 2013.3107.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 2.7 cm x 9.7 cm x 11 cm; 1 1/16 in x 3 13/16 in x 4 11/32 in