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Those are the sort of illustrations I think you're describing: the clean, economical line drawings that were common in instruction manuals, appliance guides, military technical manuals, and educational booklets from roughly the 1950s–1960s.

They typically share a few recognizable characteristics:

Simple black line art with little or no shading.
Clear silhouettes that communicate an action immediately.
Minimal facial features so attention stays on the task.
Sequential panels showing each step.
Heavy use of arrows, numbered callouts, and labels.
A style that sits somewhere between an engineering drawing and a newspaper cartoon.

If you're looking for more examples, some excellent search terms are:

1950s instruction manual illustration
mid-century technical illustration
vintage line art instruction booklet
1960s safety manual illustrations
retro appliance manual drawings
U.S. Army technical manual illustrations
Boy Scouts handbook illustrations 1950s

If your interest is artistic rather than historical, there are a few particularly influential styles worth looking at:

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Gerd Arntz — precursor to many modern instructional pictograms.
Otl Aicher — developed the iconic 1972 Olympic pictogram system, heavily influenced by earlier instructional graphics.
Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook — codified many public-information symbols.
1950s Boy Scout handbooks — some of the finest examples of explanatory line illustration for everyday skills.

If, however, you're thinking of the very specific style that looks like "How to tie a tie," "How to shave," "How to use this appliance," or Popular Mechanics diagrams, I can also dig up examples from those specific sources—they have an even more distinctive mid-century aesthetic.

G: That's fair. I misread where you were going with it.

Yes—that hand-washing example is exactly the visual language I would use. More specifically, I'd aim for:

Thin, confident black linework.
White background, no color.
Neutral, almost anonymous figures with simplified features.
Sequential panels with a consistent viewpoint.
Motion indicated only by curved arrows and the changing position of objects.
No written instructions whatsoever—only the occasional numeral if needed.
A slightly "government training manual" or "appliance instruction sheet" aesthetic from the 1950s–60s.

That style was designed around communicating procedures across language barriers, which makes it a perfect fit for teaching a game like Pogs entirely visually.

I think it'd actually be a fun design challenge:

Show the setup (stack of pogs, slammer).
Show Player A striking.
Show some pogs flipping.
Show the player collecting the flipped ones.
Show the remaining stack passed to the next player.
Repeat until the stack is gone.
Final panel showing the player with the larger pile as the winner.

The trick would be making it understandable without relying on any symbols that didn't already exist in that visual vocabulary. That's exactly the sort of problem those old instructional artists solved.

When you're ready, I'd generate it as though it had been printed in a 1962 instruction booklet that came in the box with a household appliance—or, more accurately for Pogs, a school or youth recreation pamphlet. I think that aesthetic is a much better match than a modern infographic.