Most of the games in this collection could be some amount of fun when played alone. I mean, not really. You can play way with the chess set of the checkers from Connect Four. You could be amused by the Mad game or play Douche against yourself. You could even stick the Pente pieces up your nose or use the Inner Circle game pieces like they were claws. Yep. So, this game is truly a junk game. It's about facts. You need five of them. You write them in a' la Yahtzee. Yep. Fun for one or all in your family game night. Or not.

This edition of the game was published by a company called Avalon Hill made this series of "Bookshelf Games", or for about the size of a large dictionary, you could have hours and hours of family fun. Indeed. No game board involved. Just some cards, some "chits" (Dungeons And Dragons original edition fans will know that reference.) Score cards and game cards. That was that. Oh yeah, a neat glass sand timer Neat. Need a three minute egg? Neat. Gotta have the card holder stand. Neat.

Mr. Fat Hanz (TM) shows off the timer in the game. Made in West Germany. Remember that? East and West Germany? Before Mr. Gorbachev tore down that wall? Nevermind. The name of the flick that I saw about the wall in 1982-3, I can't remember it at all. It featured someone famous and was about something, and I used to know it all the time. No, not Wargames or Octopussy, or even Running Scared. Forget it. So, what do you do in this fine book shelf game?

Since this isn't the NFL, I'll disseminate the details. You pick the playing cards. It gives you clues that you write down on your score card. You pick a topic and then you pick a sub topic. Product name.  Then Cigarettes.  Then you have to pick your letters at random. Then you have a few minutes with the flip of the timer to fill out your card. To win the game, you have the most points. I think you do each column one at a time. Game over after each column. We as a family might have played this a few times but it went into the closet of broken games. I had a little fun with some of the blanks of this game as, it was all I could do. I think I played it with a few friends as well, but we quickly lost interest and went to play Atari. That's what we called in back in the.... ahhhhh forget it.  Je joue Atari aujourd'hui? Tais-Toi Chien!

Yep. This was fun to someone my age. This was a self created card from self created answers. The final answer for I and category "Count Pats". (No idea, but it looks like it may be like U.S.A or U.S.S.R or something.) So true. I was young and stupid and well, that's no excuse. You know I made my own games that were no better and spelled just as badly. That's for another junk blog.

If I have any eggs, I'll make them very smart with this fine timer with a busy stand. Oh, it's a 5 minute timer? Seems like it... I guess... so the eggs will be ready for salads I guess. I like salads. I didn't play this much. In fact this was the first time the box was opened to see the contents in 20 years or so.  It goes into the vault for another 20 years. Maybe I'll play it. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Beuller?

-Ric