The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat (1981)

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Designer	Greg Costikyan
Artist	Redmond A. Simonsen Timothy Truman
Publisher	SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
Year Published	1981
# of Players	1 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 1 players Recommended with 1 players (2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
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Language Dependence	Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (2 voters) [poll]
Honors	1981 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction Board Game Nominee
Subdomain	(3 voters) [vote]
Category	Murder/Mystery Novel-based Science Fiction
Mechanic	Area Movement Storytelling
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Family	Ares Magazine Games Solitaire Games
Primary Name	The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat
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Ares Magazine #10. Based on Harry Harrison's famous character, Slippery Jim diGriz, aka the Stainless Steel Rat, this solitaire paragraph game pits the SSR against a deadly maze controlled by a computer programmed to kill.

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23	Reviews Eric's Solitaire Review: The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat	2011-08-21	Garfink	10
2	General Mini-story accompanying the game.	2010-01-11	Dreamteam	1
18	Reviews User Review	2004-12-13	castiglione	5

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Average Rating:	6.60
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Accompanying short story by Harry Harrison	http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/ssrreturn.htm	2011-05-17
Ares magazine archive	http://members.iinet.net.au/~avalon11/IMPRINT/ARES...	2009-12-19