{"id":14092,"date":"2014-12-10T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14092"},"modified":"2014-12-10T06:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:07:34","slug":"akin-to-a-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/akin-to-a-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Akin to a Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone scanned an old Parker Brothers catalog: <a href=\"http:\/\/flashbak.com\/monopoly-to-ouija-parker-brothers-games-of-1972-26119\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monopoly to Ouija: Parker Brothers Games of 1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quick, how many of these games do you currently own?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list, with my current possessions in bold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monopoly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Landslide<\/li>\n<li><strong>Careers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sorry<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dealer&#8217;s Choice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Risk<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Masterpiece<\/li>\n<li>Square Off<\/li>\n<li>Snapshot<\/li>\n<li>Gnip Gnop<\/li>\n<li>Bug Out<\/li>\n<li>Qubic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Probe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scan<\/li>\n<li>Spill and Spell<\/li>\n<li>Winnie the Pooh<\/li>\n<li>Screech<\/li>\n<li>Peanut Butter and Jelly<\/li>\n<li>The Uncle Wiggly Game<\/li>\n<li>Birthday Cake<\/li>\n<li>Pit<\/li>\n<li>Flinch<\/li>\n<li>Soma Puzzle Game<\/li>\n<li>Rook<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mille Bornes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nerf Games<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Johnny Horizon Environmental Test Kit<\/li>\n<li>Ouija Talking Board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d put the ones I used to own in italics, but I&#8217;ve never owned any of the others even in my eBaying days when I&#8217;d buy old board games at estate sales to sell on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d underline the ones where I have all the pieces, but I think that would just depress me.  On the other hand, I have an idea for a great 3-D printing business: Print part sets for out-of-print games.  Don&#8217;t steal my idea, now.  I CALLED IT FIRST.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect I do better than most of the population, though.  And this list provides a handy shopping guide for estate sales in the future should I decide that I&#8217;m collecting Parker Brother games from 1972.  <em>And I&#8217;m just crazy enough to do it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/353654.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone scanned an old Parker Brothers catalog: Monopoly to Ouija: Parker Brothers Games of 1972. Quick, how many of these games do you currently own? Here&#8217;s the list, with my current possessions in bold: Monopoly Landslide Careers Clue Sorry Dealer&#8217;s Choice Risk Masterpiece Square Off Snapshot Gnip Gnop Bug Out Qubic Probe Scan Spill and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14096,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}