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Once about a time, when the TriBond board game was selling like warm, buttered griddle cakes, we had a "site" residing on this thing called the "World Wide Web." The year was 1996 and if you were so lucky (or silly enough to sign up for it), you received via electronic mail, a set of three clues every day. Your job each day, was to try and figure out what those three clues had in common.

It was fun and apparently addictive, because at its peak (before Mattel bought the licensing rights to the game and shut the site down) we had over 1,200 "subscribers." Now with game coming back on the market, it's time to TriBond again. These days there's this Hormel beef/pork product called SPAM that has loaned its name to unwanted electronic mail. We don't want to go there. Too salty.

So beginning tomorrow, right here on this blog, we will begin posting the...



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Etch-A-Pres

Turn the dials and you'll see what I mean,
Yeah the fun time starts, with Etch-A-Sketch
A line appears, magically,
Turn it upside down, it's fun you see

O-BA-MA ART! ETCH-A-SKETCH!


For more silver aluminum powder pop art, check out Etch-A-Sketch artist George Vlosich III's website.

Will Jerry Seinfeld Bid?

Action Comic #1 is for sale. Printed in 1938, it is widely regarded as the first "Super Hero" comic book and offers the introduction of Superman to the world. It is expected to fetch a $400,000 at auction when the bidding begins today. Original price?


READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE.

Crazy Chins

When I was about 10, my sister and I discovered that it was really fun to draw two dots on your chin, lie upside-down and cover up the rest of your face to create a weird little character with a huge mouth. Jump forward 34 years and the upside-down chin character is a favorite of kids on You Tube.

Now I'm all grown up and a game designer. Like Frisbee, Pictionary and Battleship before it, CRAZY CHINS let's kids improve on an existing play pattern. People threw metal pie tins and cake pans before the injection molding of plastic made Frisbee a hit. Both Pictionary and Battleship were games that people played with a dictionary and paper & pencil before some clever designers said, "Hey let's improve on this, put it in a box and give them a better way to play."

CRAZY CHINS debuted last week at the 106th Annual International American Toy Fair in NYC. It was a hoot!

More on the show soon!