Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Stratego in 1961
I shared a 1962 Life magazine article that included the Stratego boardgame (Amazon.com search*) earlier this year, and now it’s time we revisit the sixties. In Kiplinger’s Personal Finance from 1961 we get a listing of suggested Christmas gifts which says this of Stratego:
“Chesslike game based on strategies of Napoleonic campaigns. Developed in Holland.”
I guess that 2005 lawsuit involving Stratego (mentioned here) wasn’t all that tough to resolve; there’s a lot of evidence against the game being a U.S. creation.
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