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It's the Great Pumpkin?

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We finally got around to playing "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", the one we got on our Sedona trip on Halloween.  It felt a little off playing it in February, but we love all the Peanuts characters and the original shows, and Snoopy is still a go-to winner when we buy greeting cards for each other. Anyway, when I grabbed this, I thought it was the original for some reason.  One glance at the box should have been enough.  That swirly game board with paths crossing underneath other paths is distinctive.  This company did a similar re-issue for the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer game.  From what I remember, the original Great Pumpkin game had a fairly simple path around the board where player pick cards from the pile, and have to complete the four cards that make up one of the characters to win.  Those "four or six cards makes a bigger picture games" were not uncommon in the 1970s -- games like Colombo did the same thing. This is just a roll-and-move g...