20 - Wednesday. December 2. 1998 — North Shore News New board game ne htt Bob Mackin Contributing Writer TWO North Shore entrepreneurs think they’ve devised the most exciting new board game in, oh, the last 5,000 years. Pharaoh's Blutf ts the prod- uct of Warren Silvester and Jim Waugh’'s search for new busi- ness ideas, Silvester says he had long been interested in board games, while Waugh had a fas- cination with the mysteries of ancient Egypt. “People that we talked to are hungry for a new, different board game,” Waugh said. So they pooled their ideas, convinced more than nwo dozen friends and relatives to invest $60,000 in start-up cap- ital and launched the new age board game with a new age business plan in May. They're banking on a direct sales approach through the Internet and a toll-free telephone hot- line to get the game under Christmas trees. “In the old days, like 30 years ago, we'd say where's our warehouse? Rent the ware- house. Where’s our accounting group? 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