Boardwalk game, Wildwood, New Jersey

 

• Margolies, John, photographer
• 1978.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017712169/
  

Canfield

 

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/solitaire.html

One of the games I learned from that old card games rule book was Canfield. What I remembered to Google the name was four cards wide and hard as hell. Game also known as Demon because it is so hard. I like the small playing field. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_(solitaire)

38 Across

 

A Yiddish bedbug. Five letters. Begins with a "V".

(Header 1925.)

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/31/the-origin-of-the-crossword-puzzle/

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1aaa2fd0-1f90-0134-9154-00505686a51c

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638237/

MASH ep. Jan. 1977 "38 Across". 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/whats-a-9-letter-word-for-a-100-year-old-puzzle-180948613/?no-ist

[Harry Kahne, mental marvel and daredevil from Keiths Theatre, amuses the cross word puzzle fans as he works a puzzle backwards, while being hung from the top of one of Washington's tall office buildings]

Harris & Ewing, photographer

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016887601/

[1925 January 18 (date published)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword

Sample of playing cards

 

c1936. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003688411/

Mah-Jong at bathing beach, 6/20/[24]

 

I just came across this while looking up plums for Observation Deck.

Caption for this image in an NPC album: Warm weather Mah-Jong, photo snaped (sic) at Wordman Park Pool. Left to right: Jane Eynon, Betty Carey, Helen Plummer, Ruth Nebecker."

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016837879/

Solitaire

 

When I was in high school I would play the standard solitaire game for hours at a time while sitting in front of the TV. It became too easy. I had an old card games rule book (black one shown above) and I learned how to play all of the other solitaire games they had in that book, including several that used two decks. Two I remember were Spider and Napoleon at St. Helens. Some were very hard. I have a couple of decks sitting on the coffee table and I will occasionally deal out a few hands of the standard game while I am watching something. Usually late night. Like now watching Darkman on DVD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/cards.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_(game)

https://theweek.com/articles/558738/brief-history-solitaire-patience-other-card-games

Ping Pong

 

Table tennis scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis

http://www.digitalhistoryproject.com/2012/09/game-of-ping-pong-in-1902.html

Boggle

 

1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle

Tri-Ominos

 

1979.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4040/tri-ominos

Great Moves

 

1978 game. New.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34312/great-moves

https://flashbak.com/16-retro-board-game-curiosities-that-no-family-played-twice-2165/

Yahtzee

 

1983 header.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57978/lets-roll-yahtzee

Scrabble

 

New 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble

Push Over

1981.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2664/push-over

Wildfire

1980.

https://www.handheldmuseum.com/ParkerBros/Wildfire.htm

Electronic Detective

 

New 1979 Ideal. Don Adams.

https://www.wired.com/2011/07/geekdad-retro-gaming-electronic-detective/

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5777/electronic-detective

Pay Day

1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_Day_(board_game)

Trust Me

1981.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1437/trust-me

Split Second

1992.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1243/split-second

Scan

Scan.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4000/scan

Stop Thief

1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Thief