January 18, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries,

January 18, 1963

Fri Partly Cloudy in am but 40 warm and very little wind.  I washed clothes and hung outside they dried good.  The men finished Davids car, then he and Doug went to Cobleskill in P.M. to return some parts.  Carol and Wayne went to game at night on bus.  Doug and David went out.  Lavilla asked us over to play 42 but I was sort of sick had headache all day and didn’t feel like going.

Comment:  42, also known as Texas 42, is a trick-taking game played with a standard set of double-six dominoes. 42 is often referred to as the "national game of Texas", and continues to be very popular in much of the state.^[1] Tournaments are held in many towns,^[1] and the State Championship tournament is held in Hallettsville the first Saturday of March each year.^[2]

This is about the only game that my mother would play and she loved it.  Probably because it is also the answer to life, the universe and everything.  

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, advanced alien beings create a supercomputer, called Deep Thought, to figure out the answer to the so-called Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. After calculating for 7.5-million years, Deep Thought determined the answer was the number 42.