Is this what you are thinking of? I had tons of them as a kid.
Posted on 07/21/2015 8:51:14 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Way back when I was a little kid there were occasional specials sponsored by the 3M company. I don't remember much about them but I do remember a certain commercial that ran during the telecasts.
It was for a game 3M had created involving a small square board with holes in it and a set of pegs. The pegs were put in the holes and then other pegs were laid atop them.
It struck me at the time because it seemed similar to a game we had at elementary school which consisted of a board and pegs, except that this was really sophisticated and supposed to be really intellectual. It had a short one syllable name, but I have never been able to recall it.
Does anyone else remember this commercial or recall the game?
I’ve got about half-a-dozen of those 3M games around here somewhere. Twixt was cool, but the one I liked the most was Feudal.
Twixt
I was telling my granddaughter of a game I played as a teenager called Snit’s Revenge. My best friend and I named all of the pieces with various names.
It was from TSR games as I remember, lot’s of crude humor too.
Having watched the video, I think playing a pen and paper version would be more enjoyable, because you cant lose pieces.
“the one I liked the most was Feudal.”
Resistance is Feudal!
Is this what you are thinking of? I had tons of them as a kid.
I remember a game like that, it was called Bridge.
I apologize for wasting bandwidth.
I personally love this type of thread. I asked about a movie I had seen part of on TV when I was a kid in the 1960s. My parents made me go to bed before it had finished. Over the years I had looked through dozens of books and asked tons of “experts” and no one had a clue. I started a thread here and within ten minutes half a dozen people let me know the name of the movie, “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?”. It has never been officially released, but I was able to buy a copy on the grey market and watch it a few days later and it actually was a very entertaining movie.
Twixt looks like a fun game.
I loved that game - like a more complicated game of chess - I wished I kept my Feudal set.
Right Twixt or Left Twixt??
I had the game as a child - but it was called BRIDG-IT. Way cool.
That’s it.
Don’t remember it being motorized, though.
It was a stupid game because it required a hammer to get the square pegs into the round holes. I gave it up and threw it away.......
The later ones were. The original was red girders and gray panels built on a green plastic base. The different colored panels and window-like panels came later.
It is TWIXT.
In a way it is an elaborate version of tic-tac-toe in that whoever goes first ought to win. If you go second your opponent has to make a mistake. It is a lot easier to get distracted and make a mistake though.
I use it as a great example of not “throwing good money after bad.”
You can tell when you have lost a line of “attack” and an opponent will just tit-for-tat with you to the other side and then win.
(If anyone else says these same things sorry — I just answered this and did not read all the replies yet.)
Girders and Panels.
I had one that let you build the Sears Tower.
I should start a thread about a book I read in the late 80s or early 90s. It was about an assasination plot against the British royal family. I did not get to finish the book because it disappeared from the cafe where I was reading it. I was the honest one and never swiped it, just read at the restaurant while eating lunch a few times a week. I guess someone else was so engrossed they took it and didn’t return it.
Looks like a game of GO. Just learn GO
It’s TWIXT. I still have it and play it with my daughter. It really can be a very absorbing game.
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