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Show Page Twelve Scintillating toys: sparks of The Daily Utah Chronicle. Thursday . December 7. 1978 'smarts ' continued from page S have also been developed to teach children colors, punctuation, vowels, sequence, consonatns, parts of speech, and missing pieces to w hole objects); Front & Back Lotto (match opposite views of identical objects); Oscar the Grouch Card Game (match various objects); and The Count's Card Game (number matching). 10) Sesame Street Games Any child who loves watching Sesame Street w ill also enjoy playing Milton Bradley's Sesame Street games (3 to 6 years, 12.69. $2.65). The games include Missing Parts Ixtto (match Educational Toys for Older Children and Adults The Harry Lorayne Memory Game (S10) Known as the man with the most phenomenal memorv in the world. Harry Lorayne has appeared on numerous talk shows. His gimmicks include remembering the names of every one in the studio audience as many as 500 people. He has written books on the subject including The Memory Book, and Remembering People. . .The Key to Success. This game is Lorayne's brainchild, and contains a special section in the instruction manual, "How to Win at the Memory Game," in w hich Lorayne rev eals some of his secrets in detail, including the Link System and the Peg System. Six different memory tests are included, using object cards, names and faces. No two games are alike. The more you play, the more challenging it becomes and the better your memory. sh-ij-e- cursive and manuscript alphabet, music, rhyming subtraction. Toys for the rich continued from page 9 Let's not forget those tun holiday parties. Sakowitz hasn't. Through them you can invite 21 famous guests to your Christmas gathering and really blow away your friends when they walk into your living room and there stand Walter, Cronkite, Neil Armstrong. Sen. Henry Jackson, Uri Geller, Gloria Steinem, George Allen, Dr. Albert Sabin. Arthur Ashe, Tom Wolfe, F. Lee Bailey, Bruce Jenner, Alan Greenspan, Mel Blanc, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Rosie Grier, Dr. Milton Friedman, Ruth Gordon, Minnesota Fats, Buckminster Fuller, Sandra $94,125. Vanocur and Liz Carpenter. Price: The advertising plug that accompanies these Sakowitz items in the catalog is that these are "The Ultimate Gifts to Be Somebody," somehow painting a pitiful psychological picture of the people who might want to buy them. g gifts this Sakowitz is offering some nice year. For $150,750 you can have your own star square in front of Hollywood's Mann's Chinese Theatre, complete with your foot and hand prints preserved in cement. If tha't doesn't make you feel like a star, maybe this gift will. Sakowitz will send out a professional filmmaking crew to make a documentary of your life. They'll travel anywhere in the continental U.S. with you and will later add a script, musical score and voice narration, all for only $50,000. Other Sakowitz trifles include your gift recipient's weight in ten carat diamonds for $250,000 per ounce; g animal trophies; and $67,500 for 70 big an entire library of leatherbound books bearing your name as the author. They're full of blank pages and you can get 1,000 of them for $25,000 and wallow in some genuine ego bliss. So why hasn't someone invented a robot that will do your Christmas shopping for you? ego-strokin- queen" apd "Mav I cheat?" He can even detect illegal moves 3) Master Mind (S2.50 - SI 5) Master Mind is a game of cunning and logic for two players. One makes up a secret code and the other tries to break it. Manv versions are available, including Mini-MastMind. Super Master Mind. Grand Master Mind. Word Master Mind. Numbers Master Mind and Master Mind for the Blind. 4) Wff 'n Proof (512.50) Designed by Layman E. Allen, a legal professor and social research scientist at the University of Michigan, this 21. game kit teaches propositional logic and develops habits of careful reasoning. The beginning games can be played by d and teach "WFF" formulas) which are actually similar to English sentences. in logic symbolic expressions The remaining games deal with rules of inference, logical proofs and the nature of formal systems. Data Processing Digest has stated that "WFF 'n Proof" "can be the fiist exhilarating challenge to children of 6. and as the games progress, stimulate the intellect of people of any age or capability. It is as significant in its field as the lauiu hing of the first satellite in the space race field." The .u- York Herald Tribune said. "Last June in California, a class of junior high school students went to summer sthool and played a game called 'WFF 'n Proof. . .the IQ scores of the students increased on the average of 17 jxiins after six weeks." Two similar games also designed by Allen and other and "Equations." professionals are "On-Sets- " b) Equable ($10) Short for "equations scramble." "Equable" is vetv similar to Scrabblr and is one of the most txpul.ir games in England and Australia. It includes everything from multiplication, division, addition and subtractions to frac lions and decimals. The object of the game is to form numerical equations either across or down the board, interlinking with numbers or signs already present. Players attempt to form equations whuh will bring them the highest scores. er 1) (well-forme- - 2) Boris, the Talking Chess Computer ($300) If you can never find a chess partner or want to improve your game, Boris is the man for you. The computerized board consis s of numbered squares you punch in your moves, then Boris flashes his answer on the screen. Different lev els of difficulty can be set, according to the length of Boris' response. 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