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I was asked to come by the Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery to come by and take part in their live Twitch feed that they’re starting up. Apparently the museum had just acquired a donation that included some small amount of game designer Sid Sackson’s collection. For those who don’t know, Sid Sackson was a designer who made games from the 60s-90s, best known for Acquire. I consider Sackson a designer before his time and I’m sure many modern games owe some amount of their success to Sackson paving the way for interesting design choices. When Sackson died in 2003, he had one of the larger personal game collections out there...and his family chose to sell it off piece by piece rather than keep it together. Many feel this was a poor decision, but even in 2003 games weren’t as big of a deal as they are now and I’m sure the idea of a Sackson Museum would have been a bit less than practical at the time. Anyway, we set up the Twitch feed and proceeded to go through this box of things that came from the office of Sid Sackson...and it was more interesting than I anticipated.

Our 24 hour gaming event is going on now. We are live streaming video of some of our game tables, check it out:

Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/imogap

STATUS UPDATE:

We have had more than twenty donations and renewals bringing us to $1,400. Thank you to everyone who has donated and shared our story. That is enough money to give us more time to find support. We have another $600 pledged for Thrag, and many Raffle items coming in as well.

We still need around $12 - 13,000 for our lease obligation (depending on attendance through the winter). We hope to raise a significant portion of that with Thrag next weekend. Even better would be to raise $90,000 and we could implement our Capacity Building Plan.

In the next couple of days we will send out a press release about Thrag. We are designing our Raffle and Patreon Drives to correspond with Thrag. Also, we will send out a membership drive notification.

If you can, please help. We need:

Today is the 50th anniversary of Star Trek! So we got together a bunch of our action figures and games to celebrate at I.M.O.G.A.P.  (The game they are playing is Star Trek Catan, by the way.)

Live long and prosper!

Here are some of the Star Trek board games you can play when you come to visit us at the museum:

We received this message from IMOGAP who asked us to help spread the word:

IMOGAP is in trouble. Our grants did not come through this year, and, combined with additional challenges, IMOGAP cannot meet our lease obligations. It makes our hearts sink to think of closing, so we are doing everything we can to find alternatives. We need cash. We need property or a space that can house the museum. And we need people to help with raising cash and seeking property.

IMOGAP is a 501(c)(3) charity that began in 2010. Our attendance is growing, our annual memberships are growing, our volunteer memberships are growing, and our collection is growing. But support is not growing fast enough to make up for our shortfalls this year.

Our unmet lease obligation is several thousand dollars. We need to raise that much money or we will be evicted.

Do you have money to support a great public institution? Do you know any philanthropists? Do you have commercial property or land? Do you want to volunteer to help IMOGAP thrive? Would you like to join our board? Please do what you can. Sometimes just one phone call, or one contact, can make all the difference to an institution like ours.

You can donate online here You can become an annual member here You can call us to discuss any ideas or resources you may be able to offer You can volunteer by calling (503) 469 - 9998 We will do everything we can to find a solution that keeps the museum open, and this great collection in the hands of the public.

Some of the options being vetted by our Staff and Board include: Move into a smaller space; secure a construction loan; become a mobile (school bus based) museum; move into a boutique Bed & Breakfast model; dissolve the museum; sell portions of the collection; raffle items to the public; find equity to support the museum; find corporate sponsors; have a Fundraising Gala; or have a Support Telethon.

We currently house more than 4,000 board games, the largest publicly accessible collection in the United States. It would be very sad for that collection to disappear.

Please help.

Lincoln Logs were invented in 1916 by John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and has been entertaining children for almost a century!

Playing with Lincoln Logs encourages creativity, inspires imagination, helps children develop fine motor skills and experience problem-solving.

We have a whole box of these things at I.M.O.G.A.P. - come build your dream cabin : )

Kick Shot is a soccer board game that can be played by up to 6 players, ages 5 to adult. The game is played with two dice, offense, defense and referee cards to advance the ball across the board, intercept, and score goals. One KickShot game includes three levels of play, depending on age and desired challenge.

The game is designed to help improve players soccer game and show that there is more to soccer than just kicking and running straight for the goal.