Discovered a new trick accidentally. Go into the wrong folder in your database of photos and stumble upon things you photographed a year ago to the day with the intention of blogging but never did.
A year ago today, after a meeting with my playwright collaborator Oliver Mayer to work on our play, I took some snaps of some old “Chinese Checkers”* boards on the wall. We were at the Brite Spot, a legendary cafe in Echo Park. I found them rather pleasant to look at, and wish I could have got a better angle to photograph them properly, but it was not practical. Anyway, here they are (click for a larger view):
Wow, I just realized that I have not played this game in decades. I remember it being fun, but have no recollection of the actual structure of the game, although I imagine I’d remember in a few seconds if presented with a game. I’ve also realized that I’ve not heard it even referred to in recent years. Has it disappeared? Do people play it still? Do you?
Do tell.
-cvj
(*If I recall correctly, the name was just a marketing ploy. The game has little to do with China.)
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We used to play when we were kids on an old Chinese Checkers board of my granmother. I recently (3 or 4 days ago) rediscovered the game and have played it everyday ever since over the internet (with skype) with my girlfriend. Excelent game!
I still have my homemade Chinese checkers board. I haven’t dragged it out of the closet for a few years, but I used to love the game (which I played largely by myself for some reason). I’ve never tried to teach my kids. Interesting.
In my family, we played when we were kids, sixty years ago or so. I didn’t recall how to play, either, but Wikipedia has an article that tells all.