Players are Fleet Street reporters. Fill a blank page of your newspaper with stories and advertisements of as high a value as possible. The total value of a full page can vary considerably according to the individual totals marked on the back of each story card placed on the newspaper blank. The winner is the player who composes a page of the highest value plus cheques held at the close of the game and other bonuses obtained. There is no separate game board. Players have their own newspaper blank sheet to work from.
All 10 story cards are supplied in the 5 player edition whereas for the 4 player edition, 8 cards are available. Interestingly the 8
supplied are different in each box. The headline and value for each story
card;
Advertiser's Announcement, all
valued at £1,000 and illustrated; Sirdar Hand Knitting Wools, Harlequin Cakes and Puddings, Osram Lamps, Dinky
Toys (Made by Meccano Ltd.), Walpamur Paints, Persil, Think of Road Safety, Esso
Extra, Flexello Castors, Golden Shred, OXO, Waveney Canned Vegetables, Lyle's
Golden Syrup, Eldorado Ice Cream, BEA (British European Airways), 365
Handkerchiefs, Stork Margarine and Gilbeys Spey Royal Scotch Whisky.
; Racehorse doped by blow-pipe dartsman (£700), Aerobatic Thief's £3,000 haul
from singer's flat (£700), Murder in Public by Death Cord (£600), The name's
the same in triple murders (£500), Rescued from flames then arrested for
arson (£400), £75,000 Bank Robbery by clever sewer rat (£400), Peacemakers
fourth kill, Ruritanian murdered (£400), Helicopter thieves hoaxed Lord
Veritaz (£300), Daring Jewel Gang nets £50,000 on train (£300) and Firemen
took safe with £10,000 in it (£300).
; Shopkeeper's Strad buy was pretty bad buy! (£500), Moira went for a ride on
escaped tiger (£500), Man from Mars hoaxed the world (£400), Tale of a costly
fiver publican was tricked (£400), Jericho Trumpet will shake enemy (£300), First
day trip to
America
by air- price 30s! (£300), Ballet star petrified at
Royal Performance (£200), Factory Chimney had £50,000 parcel inside! (£200), Stentorians
at war with Ugonians (£200) and Was this storm a man-made killer? (£100).
; TV set that will pick-up the past! (£2,000), Electric Sea Shocks are felt
by Divers (£2,000), First Moon landing?- By
Far East
Rocket? (£1,800), Panacea Discovery End of all Disease? (£1,800), Sea Monster
theory for crewless ship (£1,600), Ship Tossed up on hot water spout (£1,600),
Sea-sand is changed into gold dust (£1,400), Rugby Player fell asleep during
game (£1,400), Triple Trebler's Tricky Trance Tips (£1,000) and New war gas
will put enemy to sleep (£1,000).
; Potholer Discovers Troglodyte Colony, Country Boy is amazing prodigy, Man
bites dog is today's odd story, Scientist produces synthetic coal, Amateur
Gardener's amazing golden rose, Is this the clue to living and dying?, Royal
Wedding gown will be atomic!, He's X-eyed but he sees through you!, His night
beat had a £1,000 rhythm!
and A robot bricklayer builds 2-hour house.
; The Daily Telegraph, Daily
Mail, Daily Express, Daily Sketch and News Chronicle.
However,
in some copies of the game, The Times replaces The News Chronicle.
A classic game from John Waddington. ‘Protected under Patent Application Number 27029/53’ is printed on the box lid and on the cards. Trade mark Regd. No. 731718.
An intriguing telephone device is included in the game which is used to phone the editor for approval of a story. The advertisement pictures are interesting; 18 different adverts from the 1950s eg. Persil, Oxo, BEA Airlines and Think! Road Safety.
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