Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Meet the Presidents

I picked up this board game today for $2.


Meet the Presidents. A board game about Presidential trivia from the early 1970s.



It comes with a set of coins with every POTUS from George Jefferson to Cynthia Nixon's dad.




Look at that spinner. Complicated as all get out. If I was prez I would have one of these to make all my decisions.




Here are sample questions "when did Lincoln marry?", "who wrote the first tariff bill?" and "what number is Herbert Hoover thinking of right now?".

Here's the game board:



It stops with Dick Nixon:


The copyright date is 1965, but Nixon's inclusion makes this particular edition 1969 or later.

Here is the instructions:



I know it's too small to read, but would you really read it?

Bottom line: Wheezy Jefferson was First Lady.

Guy Hutchinson
Guy Hutchinson

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