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Title: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: Adam Nedeff on February 16, 2014, 01:46:33 PM
It's come to my attention that my copy may be a particularly uncommon one. Those of you who have one, do the puzzles come on separate cards, or on a roll-a-matic?
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: snowpeck on February 16, 2014, 01:57:56 PM
Separate cards, though the roll-a-matic is depicted on the box. Which does yours have?
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: Adam Nedeff on February 16, 2014, 01:59:41 PM
I have a (very cheaply made) roll-a-matic.
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: tpirfan28 on February 16, 2014, 02:23:35 PM
I have a (very cheaply made) roll-a-matic.
Same as mine.
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: MikeK on February 16, 2014, 02:49:51 PM
Is it fair to assume the Roll-a-Matic version has the same number of puzzles as the version printed on double-sided cards--48?
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: Bob Zager on February 16, 2014, 02:55:20 PM
I have a copy of BOTH versions.  The first that I'd found was a roll-o-matic type, and a few years later I'd found one with the puzzle cards in a thrift store.
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: Jeremy Nelson on February 18, 2014, 07:54:19 AM
I'm surprised that the home game didn't at least include a few additional materials to replicate the car round, since that was a major hook on this version.
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: TLEberle on February 18, 2014, 01:59:21 PM
I'm surprised that the home game didn't at least include a few additional materials to replicate the car round, since that was a major hook on this version.
I'm not. If they had bothered it would have been as rip-roaring fun as the Blockbusters Gold Run.
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: clemon79 on February 18, 2014, 02:06:01 PM
I'm not. If they had bothered it would have been as rip-roaring fun as the Blockbusters Gold Run.

"1! 3!"

"No match."

<lay down timer on side>

<reset board>

<slits own throat>
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: TLEberle on February 18, 2014, 02:10:48 PM
I used to while away the minutes playing a version of that but all I needed was a deck of cards. I enjoyed it for the reasons that people play memory games, but there's just no reasons to include an extra sheet of car tabs, having to pull up the slides, put 'em back, all against a timer, and replicate the game show experience. At all. If you're really keen get some half-size index cards, pick whatever cars you want to write on 'em and do that, but to recreate that game using the plastic game board would be silly.
Title: Re: Classic Concentration home game
Post by: clemon79 on February 18, 2014, 02:51:53 PM
You wouldn't include them as tabs, you'd more likely just make it little cards that you laid out on the table, kinda like Beat Teh Dragon in the Tic Tac Dough home game.