October 15, 2007
The Game of Cootie, circa 1949
Classic Cootie.
Unassemble all the “COOTIES”.
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“My version, catalog no. 200, dated 1949, is missing one of the heads and has a box that has seen better days,” says Sam of this game plucked from Sam’s Toybox.
Not only is the set missing a Cootie head, but I suspect Sam may have been the victim of a Cootie Switcheroo. Those colors seem all wrong for 1949 — and something seems a little off about those Cootie tongues, too.