Comments on: Black-Out http://airminded.org/2008/01/07/black-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-out Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2008/01/07/black-out/comment-page-1/#comment-147447 Brett Holman Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:46:43 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/07/black-out/#comment-147447 Thanks very much for this, Denis! Interesting to see which of my guesses were right and which were wrong. The worries about security sound familiar, but it seems unlikely that there was any information on the board which couldn't be found on a pre-war tourist's map of London! Do you recall when you first played the game? To me, the topic (and perhaps the quality of the components) suggests it came out early in the war, say in time for Christmas 1939. Thanks very much for this, Denis! Interesting to see which of my guesses were right and which were wrong. The worries about security sound familiar, but it seems unlikely that there was any information on the board which couldn't be found on a pre-war tourist's map of London!

Do you recall when you first played the game? To me, the topic (and perhaps the quality of the components) suggests it came out early in the war, say in time for Christmas 1939.

]]> By: Denis Vernon http://airminded.org/2008/01/07/black-out/comment-page-1/#comment-147198 Denis Vernon Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:35:01 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/07/black-out/#comment-147198 I still have my 'Black out' which my mother and I played during the war years. The game has a pack of cards and each player take three cards. When a player gets two cards matching the symbol on the board he can move onto the white bar adjacent to it. He puts the two matching cards back on the board adjacent to the pack and picks up two more and so on. There are however one or two tricks which players become aware of after playing a few times. One route has less 'stops' then the others. If I remember correctly players are required to go to a diagonally opposite corner. The adults at the time were rather bemused how a game showing a 'map' of London could possibly be allowed when security was so important? I still have my 'Black out' which my mother and I played during the war years. The game has a pack of cards and each player take three cards. When a player gets two cards matching the symbol on the board he can move onto the white bar adjacent to it. He puts the two matching cards back on the board adjacent to the pack and picks up two more and so on. There are however one or two tricks which players become aware of after playing a few times. One route has less 'stops' then the others. If I remember correctly players are required to go to a diagonally opposite corner. The adults at the time were rather bemused how a game showing a 'map' of London could possibly be allowed when security was so important?

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