It would have scanned better on 3 lines, but i can't insert breaks into the subject line.
Ah, well...
You've got all weekend to go watch Friday Night Fights and Vote for the Winner. Here and now, we're hiding out once again for
With all the holiday pressures, i suspect we could all use a light and fun edition this week. (I certainly can. I only realized what day it was half an hour ago, my time. Kind of spaced days all week - not good for my meds.)
So, no puzzles, quizzes or conundrums today. Just some 1960s Batman fun & games - 3 of them, in fact: Bat-Track, Trapped By The Penguin and Batman's Crime Patrol. (For extra fun, in Crime Patrol, one team plays for Batman, the other for Joker.)
Our games come from 1966's Batman Giant Games Book:
Kind of strange showing that sort of thing up front, but there's no solutions to be found there-in - only games and the story of The Doomstown Menace (a Batman text adventure). Let me point out that this wasn't just your typical fun & games comic. Bot the outer cover and the centerfold were printed on cardboard stock to provide actual playable pieces when cut out by the readers. (Oh, the horror!) They even went a step further, making sure you're covered even if you don't have a 6-sided die to roll at home:
(That parenthetical "do this twice" isn't an actual instruction, it's my inner alt-write urge to correct the common error - dice is plural, die is singular)
Also provided, of course, are playing pieces and cards you'll need to play the games:
And here are our rules and game boards:
To wrap things up, in addition to the story and two more games, the book also gives us a couple classic portraits of the Dynamic Duo:
Ah, well...
You've got all weekend to go watch Friday Night Fights and Vote for the Winner. Here and now, we're hiding out once again for
With all the holiday pressures, i suspect we could all use a light and fun edition this week. (I certainly can. I only realized what day it was half an hour ago, my time. Kind of spaced days all week - not good for my meds.)
So, no puzzles, quizzes or conundrums today. Just some 1960s Batman fun & games - 3 of them, in fact: Bat-Track, Trapped By The Penguin and Batman's Crime Patrol. (For extra fun, in Crime Patrol, one team plays for Batman, the other for Joker.)
Our games come from 1966's Batman Giant Games Book:
Kind of strange showing that sort of thing up front, but there's no solutions to be found there-in - only games and the story of The Doomstown Menace (a Batman text adventure). Let me point out that this wasn't just your typical fun & games comic. Bot the outer cover and the centerfold were printed on cardboard stock to provide actual playable pieces when cut out by the readers. (Oh, the horror!) They even went a step further, making sure you're covered even if you don't have a 6-sided die to roll at home:
(That parenthetical "do this twice" isn't an actual instruction, it's my inner alt-write urge to correct the common error - dice is plural, die is singular)
Also provided, of course, are playing pieces and cards you'll need to play the games:
And here are our rules and game boards:
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| (I tried to keep the boards fairly big in case anyone actually was going to print & play) |
To wrap things up, in addition to the story and two more games, the book also gives us a couple classic portraits of the Dynamic Duo:
the works from the Batman Giant Games Book (1966)
Ah good, no questions, so my head doesn't hurt. I think I'll be having those pages - they're too good to ignore. Funny how Batman looks happy, while it's Robin who's a bit grim-faced, eh?
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