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When i heard my 7 year grandson had learned to play Stratego in summer camp, I knew just what to get for his birthday being a longtime Stratego fan myself. I was shocked to discover there is now a version with press-on stickers, and relieved you could still buy the "original" with the numbers and heads of the troops molded into the plastic. But wait. For some incomprehensible reason they have reversed the numbering so the General is now 10 instead of 1, the 9 is now a 2, and the Spy is a 1 instead of an S. For someone who has played probably a hundred games with the old numbering, it's near impossible to adjust. The other "improvement" is a folding barrier they now include which you can put up in the center of the board to hide your pieces as you are placing them. But guess what. If you are playing with a kid, inevitably they will knock this over and send your pieces flying just after you've spent 10 minutes organizing them. I would very much like to meet the person responsible for these changes so I could give them a piece of my mind. Maybe even challenge them to a game of Stratego--the REAL original version.