Grab A Pencil
All of the games in this section are meant to be played with pencil and paper.
- Hold That Line, by Sid Sackson; an attempt to move "boredom" games away from Tic-Tac-Toe
- Cutting Corners, by Sid Sackson; another attempt at a "boredom" game
- Paper Boxing, by Sid Sackson
- Last Word, a paper-based Scrabble-esque game by Sid Sackson
- Patterns II, an inductive-reasoning game by Sid Sackson; see Eleusis for another game in this small genre
- Property, later republished as New York, by Sid Sackson
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