A couple of bits of Wicketz info. A few nights ago Mike contacted me via the blog and asked about a pretty unique version of Wicketz (inventor, Alf Compton is pictured to the right). He wrote: “I’m trying to find some information on a version of Wicketz I bought at auction some years ago. It [...]
Note: the following review was originally posted by John as a comment to another post on this site. I have reposted it here for easier viewing. Game Title: Cricket World Publisher: Owzat Games Mechanism: A quickplaying dice and chart game needing just a few readily accessable ratings and a scoresheet to start playing. Description: I [...]
There’s definately something a bit whacky going on on eBay since I posted about the nice 1950s game from India getting a £78 bid. I kicked off bidding about a week ago at £10 figuring that or thereabouts was a fair price for the game…however, obviously someone else knows better so now I’m really intrigued [...]
A lovely game from India is for sale on eBay. As of writing it is now at £78 so there are some keen bidders out there, that’s for sure! You can see more of the images here on our sister site on Yahoo! Groups. It’s described like this on eBay: “This is a fantastic and [...]
A few months ago I was asked by the editor of the Pavilion magazine (www.cricket.asn.au) to write an article about cricket board games. The magazine is the official journal of the Australian Cricket Society, so it was with a lot of enthusiasm that I hurled together a rambling piece about my strange little obsession. For [...]
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