Super Cash in a Flash

Above: Front and back of an unopened
'Super Cash in a Flash' game card.

SUPER CASH IN A FLASH was a promotional game issued by Standard Oil of Ohio at its Sohio and Boron gas stations in 1967. This was a collect-and-win game with instant winners. The game consisted of a square, cardboard game card (2.25" square) given to customers each time they visited a participating Sohio or Boron gas station.

The Super Cash in a Flash game cards are perforated. It is necessary to tear the card along the perforations to remove the center section. When the center section is unfolded, it reveals two printed game pieces. Each game piece is one-half of a cash prize amount. The objective was to collect two matching halves of the same dollar amount, in which case the player won that amount. Some game pieces are instant winners; they contain both halves of the same dollar amount.

Cash prizes were $1, $2, $5, $10, $25, $100, $1,000 and $2,000.

Creative Merchandising, Inc. produced this game. It was the second of three games they produced for Standard Oil of Ohio in 1967 and 1968. In all three games, the game cards are generic and do not mention any gas station or oil company name on them which is unusual for an oil company promotion. One possible explanation is so Standard Oil of Ohio could issue the game pieces at their Sohio gas stations (in Ohio) and also at their Boron gas stations (outside of Ohio) without any branding confusion.

Super Cash in a Flash was preceeded by 'Cash in a Flash' earlier in 1967 (which you can see here) and was followed by 'Pay-Day' later in 1968 (which you can see here). These three games were very similar.

Above: A game card with the game piece section removed.

Above: Front and back of a typical game piece showing two dollar amounts on two halves.

Each game piece contains two halves. Most game pieces have two halves of different amounts but some game pieces are INSTANT WINNERS where both halves are the same amount. At least twenty-three different printed game cards were issued. The table below lists observed game piece printings in the game cards.

Left Side	Right Side
$2	$1
$2	$5
$2	$25
$2	$1,000
$10	$1
$10	$5
$10	$25
$10	$1,000
$100	$1
$100	$5
$100	$25
$2,000	$1
$2,000	$5
$2,000	$1,000

Above: A variety of common game pieces.

You could win eight different cash prizes in Super Cash in a Flash. The winning halves are listed in the table below.

Prize Amount	Common Half	Winning Half
$1	Left Half	Right Half
$2	Right Half	Left Half
$5	Left Half	Right Half
$10	Right Half	Left Half
$25	Left Half	Right Half
$100	Right Half	Left Half
$1,000	Left Half	Right Half
$2,000	Right Half	Left Half

Above: Scarce game piece containing the winning half (right half) of the $1.00 prize.

Above: Instant Winner game piece for the $5.00 prize. Extremely rare.

Above: Instant Winner game piece for the $10.00 prize. This is the rarest game piece in my collection and may possibly be the only one in existence.

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