I thought it was time to add a new entry in "The Treasures in the Trunk". I thought that it was time I would do one of a game.

  On the twenty-third of this month we went to my sister's christmas play at the Church. We had to drop her off early for practice so we decided to go to this antique shop to waste time. We like to go to this store and a week or two before this we had found a game we liked called "Dictionary Please". For those of you who do not know what "Dictionary Please" is, it is a game much like "Scrabble". They stopped making it in the 1950's when a game called "Scrabble" came out and the small company in Portland, Oregon had no use for the game anymore.

   The game was invented in the 1940's by two soliders that had been captured and placed in a Japense Concentration Camp and had nothing but an american dictionary. Over a time of four years they made this game by spelling words back and forth to each other and the one who spelled more word than the other won the game.

  Anyways, back to my story. We did not buy the game because it was thirty-five dollars. So when we went back on the twenty-third they still had the game and it had been marked down to eighteen dollars. We decided to buy the game and we brought it home.

This is the box.

These are some of the tiles.

This is some of the contents of this game.

(We even have the original pencils to this game!)

My fingers were quite sore on Christmas Eve from pulling apart the tiles that were stuck together (pretty much all of them) and sticking them back in the box. Well that is all this time.

   In the words of Alphonse Karr  "Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

Sincerely,

 Mary-Ann 

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Posted by maa

We too, like antique stores.This past Spring we found a game, called Nine Pins, at our local antique mall.It was an old game, I would guess it was made somewhere from 1940 to 1950.I may be way off, but that is my guess at the age.
We had a lot of fun playing this game.It got broken though and it is no longer in use.We paid $1.00 for it so I think we sure got our moneys worth out of that one.

I am happy for you, that you got your game at a discounted price.I love to play Scrabble. I have never heard of your game. Thanks for sharing.
maa's mom
I had to come back and make a correction. The game is called Nine Mens.It was so different, it had little men made out of the type of plastic from the past. I can't spell the name of it but I will try.??? celliloid????
maa's mom

Edited by maa on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 04:29

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