• Pencil stub. Necessary for keeping score and playing paper games.
  • Abbreviated pad of Post-It (brand) notes. Good for scorekeeping, but you can also stick them to stuff for games.
  • 5 dice. Just the right number for Yahtzee, or use 2 for 'standard' games.
  • Not immediately obvious from this picture, but 6 plastic markers in different colors, and 16 cardboard 'winks' in 4 different colors.
  • Deck of 'mini' playing cards. Bicycle, of course. With 2 Jokers.
  • Crib sheet for 'Duel', my own 'clone' of Magic-the Gathering for play with ordinary playing cards.
  • 4 mini sheets of grid paper, for playing Battleship and other grid paper games.
  • A 'universal' folding gameboard. Printed on a thin sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper, it includes an 8x10 checkerboard and a 1/2 sheet of hexboard.
  • The whole thing is stashed in an Altoids tin.
  • There are also 2 paperclips. These are just to keep things neat, but there's no reason you can't use them in gameplay, too.

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My entry to the Altoids Pocket Tin contest at www.altoids.com/
My favorite toy when I was a kid was the "57 Games Chest". It featured a half-dozen gameboards, two dice, some plastic markers, and instructions for - yep - 57 games. My
'Altoids Pocket Games Chest' trumps it by fitting in your pocket. The APGC contains a half-dozen colorful plastic markers, sixteen cardboard 'winks', a folding gameboard, some grid paper, a pencil, five dice, a deck of 'mini' playing cards, a pad of Post-it notes, and a laminated cheatsheet for some favorite games.

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  1. appsbyaaron 93 months ago | reply

    OOO. Please tell me more about Duel. I would lov eto see how that works.

    appsbyaaron at gmail dot com

  2. airship 93 months ago | reply

    The rules to Duel can be found at:
    airship.home.mchsi.com/duel.htm
    Have fun!

  3. Urban Woodswalker 40 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fan>TAB>ulous Aluminum & Tin Can ART, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  4. childoftheatom 28 months ago | reply

    Do you still have the rules for "duel"? The link doesn't seem to be working.

  5. airship 28 months ago | reply

    My ISP wiped out my website. I'll get it back online eventually. Sorry.

  6. ishldgetoutmore 28 months ago | reply

    For now, the rules to Duel can be found on the Wayback Machine.

    I imagine you're going to get several more requests, since this page was featured on the list of 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin.

  7. JessMoose 28 months ago | reply

    Very cool & cery creative!

  8. Minerva Zee 27 months ago | reply

    Found the duel link in the Internet Archive --
    web.archive.org/web/20080505043931/http://airship.home.mc...

  9. jaiwest 27 months ago | reply

    Thanks for this! I'm doing a camping program for kids at my library this summer and plan to make a few of these as prizes.

  10. propertyofstp 27 months ago | reply

    All the links to Duel seem to be broken, mind sharing again?

  11. darkside569 27 months ago | reply

    I want to play Duel so bad!! Please do share! All the links are broken!

  12. airship 26 months ago | reply

    For now, please use the Wayback Machine listed above. Thanks for your interest!

  13. Frank848 16 months ago | reply

    Here are a couple of ideas:

    Mini sewing kit. Thread. Needles. Pins. Better than the breakable shells usually found in pharmacies. Plus you can add some specific items of your own like buttons, bigger / smaller/ more safety pins, etc.

    Medication box. [Vitamins also]. Use cotton or paper towel so that they don't rattle around.

    Meditation Box: Incense, incense holder, matches or small lighter.
    (Recommend wrapping sticks inside some paper to make bundles. Tape the paper. Might want to use cotton as padding.

    [Flash Drives / Flash Cards / SD Cards]

    [Rubber Bands / Paper Clips]

    BTW -- A web based company @

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