Playtime, toys or games - Sunday Stamps II

This has proved a difficult theme for me. However when looking for some stamps for Words and Numbers last week another William Caxton stamp caught my eye.

Great Britain 1976 - Game and Playe of Chess

Then I've had to cheat a bit and go to New Zealand for some 'games'.

New Zealand 1974 - Xth British Commonwealth Games

I know that Sunday Stamps has a Christmas theme for the next two weeks but I found a different New Zealand stamp which shows a game in progress.

Cricket on the beach - Christmas 2013

I struggled to find a toy that I had not shown before but an old Swedish toy saved the day.

Sweden 1978

My wife usually asks me on a Sunday whether I have finished playing with my stamps. Little did she know that 'Playtime' is very appropriate for Violet this week at Sunday-Stamps-II-51.

Games for Sepia Saturday

When I saw Alan's "Games" photo prompt I must confess it was snakes and ladders that I thought of first.

Indian Game of Snakes and Ladders

19th Century Gouache on Cloth by Jain Miniature

But closer to home I looked for what games we still had hidden away. Specially for today I dug out this from the top shelf of our hall cupboard,

Scrabble

 

This is a game at which I rarely beat my wife. I do better at a game of chance.

Yahtzee

The warranty slip inside the Scrabble box is dated 1993 but the Yahtzee must be much older than that.

Meanwhile there is not much point in just two of us testing our general knowledge.

Trivial Pursuit

I never was very good at the entertainment category and as the rules for this game are dated 1983 it shows how out of date it would be today.

The Scabble rules are still in pristine condition.

Of more interest is the pamphlet inside the box promoting Family and Adult Games.

Family & Adult Games

I'm just hoping you can read the names of the games. I confess to being "Baffled" by the "Battle of The Sexes" and would need to take a "Wild Guess" at what they are about. Most of all I must take note of the warning "Mind Your Language."

I guess I prefer outdoor games but I would have to travel to Scotland to play.

Noughts & Crosses in a small park at Kirn

By Thomas Nugent -

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Other games in the park which looks across the Firth of Clyde to Gourock include Draughts and (where I started) Snakes & Ladders

Perhaps I should just check other games at Sepia Saturday