Game Information

Ilex Series (on cover, rules)

(no catalog number shown on game)

"ILEX SERIES" in plain text inside rectangle)

[title Calculating Snips!]

[logo ILEX SERIES]

tiddlywinks, mathematics, calculation

white label under box lid

"CALCULATING SNIPS"

6 7/16 inches wide — 7 7/16 inches high —⅝ inches deep

16.4 cm wide — 18.9 cm high — 1.6 cm deep

Top label with black border. The title, "Calculating Snips!" (in red) is shown at top on a yellow background filling one-quarter to one-fifth of the cover.

The background below is black, and there's a green-topped table below on which the game target is shown. The game target is square, has red aprons, and a 7 by 7 grid of squares inside. The outer seven squares are green; the next five squares are yellow, red, yellow, red, and yellow; the next 3 squares are blue, and the inner single square, marked "25", is white.

A boy (red vest, blue tie, white shirt, blue pants, brown hair) is at left, applying a yellow squidger on a red wink, aiming it toward the game target.

A girl (blue blouse with white shoulders and white "X"s) appears at right, holding her right arm up with two fingers in the air.

The logo, "ILEX SERIES" appears at bottom center within a rectangle (all in black) on the green background.

red

rules (white label) on offwhite

Red with no design.

tan with edges of white label on box bottom, empty.

The game target is printed on a multicolor label attached inside the box bottom. A wooden grid fits over the target, defining 7 by 7 cells, most of which are numbered.

The outer edge has a green background and each of the 4 sides is marked "5" (in a corner, at a diagonal reading outward), then "3", "1", "2", "1", "3", and then another "5" in the corner (all in white).

The next inner set of cells (on 4 sides): yellow corner (no number), then "4" (red background), yellow (no number), "4" (red), and then another yellow corner.

The next inner set of cells (on 4 sides) has a blue background and white text: "10" (in a corner, at a diagonal reading outward), then "6", then another "10" in the corner.

The center cell has a white background and is marked "25" (in black).

In Copy 1, one wooden cell border is broken and missing.

Copy 1 includes the following squidgers and winks:

Squidger (7/8" diameter, quality plastic with no burrs): 1 white.

Winks (5/8" diameter, quality plastic with no burrs): 1 white (marked "1" in black on one side), none marked "2", 1 yellow (marked "3" in black on one side), 1 red (marked "4" in black on one side), 1 pink (marked "5" in black on one side), and 1 teal (marked "6" in black on one side).