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Show Advertisement SPEAKING OF HONEY GAMES PEOPLE ! PLAY By EZRA T.CLARK President Davis County Bank ;i Fun and games go together at holi- J day time like red bows and green wreaths, mistletoe and holly, i Christmas trees and colored lights. So what's your r' " game especially if j you're pondering i : j over a group gift or f family present? 0G You can, of course, ,, choose from tra- U , : ditional to modern i ? electronic types. - f .' Our researchers J i have assembled. jVVj some examples for k.,,.,.,.- mM your convenience. EZRA T. CLARK I'm not really talking about very old ; favorites like chess, checkers, and cards. (Did you know that the second book ever printed in the English language was on how to play chess?) i Games like chess are entrenched in our ; culture. I'm talking about packaged games of comparatively recent vintage; vin-tage; yet at least one of these has also become well established over nearly half a century. The world leader in such packaged pastimes is still that great Depression-born Depression-born real estate game. Monopoly. First sketched out on the oil cloth cover of his kitchen table back in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1930, Monopoly eventually made its ' creator, Charles Darrow, a wealthy man. This is an especially satisfying story to relate because Darrow was i jobless and on relief at the time he in- ' yented the game. More than 80 million copies of Monopoly have been sold since Dar-row's Dar-row's day. And playing it has become for many families a holiday tradition almost as popular as playing the White Christmas record by the late Bing Crosby. Copies of Monopoly sell for between $6 and $12, according to our researchers, who point out that the higher priced version usually allows a ' larger group to play than does the smaller set. There are the usual word games like Scrabble (ranging from $5 for simple set to $18 for deluxe editions with built-in turntables). One widely advertised ad-vertised newcomer is the game with the gruesome name. Hangman. Priced between $4 and $6, Hangman is today's version of the old game based on drawing a stick figure of one's opponent, op-ponent, limb by limb, as he misses guessing the letters of a word and then "hanging" the full-bodied loser. Battleship is another popular guessing guess-ing game. The object is to try to destroy an opponent's hidden fleet. The game sells for $5 to $6. A new health-education game for children is called Circulation; it helps explain the workings of the human circulatory system and is priced at about $13. The newest and most expensive holiday diversions are those fascinating fascinat-ing electronic games played on the TV set. For example, types like Odyssey (about $30) or Video Games (about $180) enable you to test your skill against another in TV-screen tennis or hockey. The more expensive versions of the electronic games offer a wider variety of programming. Good luck. And let the games go on. . . .at holiday time! SI JttvcvS "vVVshoppe fW 1 It t.'l INSTANT LOADING 110 CARTRIDGE i U S POCKET CAMERA W-?t H 5s3 1; .XV " li J ' EXTENDER w 9.9S VALUEfc-J (Excluding models & hobby) ' ; 7hsel Mi ' "TTijT, " I CTQUTtQ RAY-O-VAC TANGIE eOStt BATTERIES COSMETICS I j MODEL 320 IfSg-s1 has big 12" wheels gM C r-so- low, w a,,,, Si 00 I -v-a low L for I I DriCe. Dpnc!ahta. long lasting bckd by . Vl fmou brand ou can trul. Great stocking stutter i VT Distinctive Frcsn our Grill Brlggs & Stratlon power. Auto choke. Recoil starter. mm . . . - mm -, ' jrrni CHOCOLATES Mm Bma I more. U y LLiJ im' j ' Now Only Here Now mm ) lh)z Gift Wrap Free 15 i Clean Up Now Your GflOlCO I ... SHOW THAT YOU CARE I CLEANS I I fjIT) "TfV .. ."N V , carpets tl 11 - ir- -m- ' SJ ,1 ' i lignum- : . ' 10 xL. BRflun nL1 1 fQ9 Dough Blender M-S7T7 1 l) 4 Hour. I GrM" 1 9 9 95 (m- 2155 So. Orchard Dr. w 4 295-6761 9-10 P.M. Daily Closed Sunday i Snelgroves 1 1 -1 1 p.m. -1 21 M idnight Frl. & Sat. 1 ! |