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Dear Backers--

We are very appreciative of the support that you have given us that pushed this project up over 250% of our initial goal!

We are optimistic that the games will be finished within the next 30 days and that they will arrive at our US warehouse in time to get shipped out to you before the end of September.  We will send you all a survey about two weeks before we expect the games to arrive, asking you for your address and contact information, so that we can prepare accurate shipping labels and such and be ready to send the games out to you as soon as possible after they arrive.

Once again, many thanks for your pledges and your interest in these terrific Sid Sackson games.

Rick Soued, for Gryphon Games

We are very thankful to you, our backers, for getting us close to 150% of our goal!  And to help push (or stretch) things a bit we thought we would make this offer to our backers--old and new--at the $55 Collector's Level.  If you have already backed at the Collector's Level, or wish to now back this project at the $55 Collector's Level, you can add increments of $50 to your already-existing or upcoming $55 pledge and get additional copies of the boxed trilogy of these games.  Shipping, of course, remains free in the US, and you can take $5 off the shipping needed to Canada and Internationally for these extra Collector's Level sets.

We also wanted to mention that we do listen to the comments of our backers and respond when it is possible.  We took another look at the investigation/information sheet for Sleuth and decided that there was, indeed, "room" for improvement.  So we have revised the layout of that sheet and almost doubled the space inside the "box" for each of the gems for you to record more information.  It leaves less room for the general "Notes" to be entered on the far right of the sheet, but then there is always the back of the sheet that you can use for these notes as well.

Once again, we really appreciate your support and interest in this Sleuth, Monad and Venture project!  Thanks!

Many thanks to our backers!  As of about an hour ago, we achieved our $6,000 initial goal on Kickstarter.  This means that the Sid Sackson Signature Series of Sleuth, Monad and Venture will become a reality in the very near future.

I conceived of putting these three reprints into a trilogy about 2-3 years ago and it is gratifying to now find out that there was a core of people like yourselves out there who were interested enough in it that they would back the project in this manner, and so quickly.  This is very encouraging.  I can now let the factory know that it is okay to produce digital proofs of all of the files--box tops and bottoms, cards, disks, rules, etc. Once they are prepared and I approve them, then we can move on to mass printing--which is when I need to make the difficult decision of how many copies to print up.

The success of the rest of this Kickstarter campaign, over the course of the remaining month that it is scheduled to run, is critical to this decision-making.  If we, with your further help, can get the number of backers to double over the next 7-10 days, to $12,000, then I am quite sure that I can authorize the mass printing of enough copies soon enough to get them over to the US by early September.  Seems like that would be a worthy stretch goal for all of us?

So please tell all of your friends and family about this successful campaign for these wonderful Sid Sackson reprints, in a collector's box, and let's see if we can't raise another $6,000 in another week or so.

I truly appreciate your interest and feedback about this project and, of course I am very grateful for your financial support as well.  Very best regards--Rick for Gryphon and Eagle Games

As we get closer and closer to reaching our goal, we wanted to extend our thanks to you, our backers, for the great help you are giving us to get this project off the ground!

We also thought that you might enjoy some notes that the developer of this trilogy edition, Rick Soued from Gryphon and Eagle Games, prepared recently about the art and graphics used in this edition of Venture:

Our thinking was that Venture had enough of a theme that we could cohesively integrate all of the art and graphics in the game and pay homage to Sid Sackson in the process of doing so.   Thus the cover shows a 1911 lithograph of New York City (Sid Sackson's home town) as it appeared close to the year of his birth (1920). For the Capital Cards in the game we used pictures of well-known "captains of industry" who had some kind of presence (typically in the form of buildings owned, corporations headquartered and in some cases personal residences) in New York between 1900 and 1930-ish. And of course the Corporations Cards in the game feature silhouettes from that era, representing the fields these entrepreneurs were the most active in--namely real estate, automobiles, shipping, steel, oil and railroads.  We had fun finding what we thought were "just the right images" to support these ideas, and we hope you enjoy the "atmosphere" we were attempting to create as you play this classic game, whether it is for the first (or perhaps the 101st) time!