The brief version of the back story of these games begins with a trip that the EGG Team and friends took to the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York six years ago. We read about 20 years of Sid Sackson’s diaries and noted the games he was particularly enthused about -- which had never been published. The end result, six years later, is this anthology of six titles, most of which have never been published before. We think they demonstrate Sid’s creative and innovative genius.

I’m the Boss: The Dice Game and Banana Blitz are two games the Eagle-Gryphon team found while digging through Sid’s prototypes. The name and gameplay of Banana Blitz comes from Sid’s notes -- exactly as they were written. The original name for I’m the Boss: The Dice Game was “Deal Me In.” The original game felt almost like a finished project when Sid left it in 1981. His meticulous notes and math in his journal allowed us to recreate the gameplay just as Sid intended.

Scope was brought to the attention of Eagle- Gryphon by game designer Joe Huber. Sid originally created this never-before-published large group game for a group at a New York home for veterans. Little has been added to Sid’s original concept and rules for this game.