THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 1966
349th day - 16 days to come
In Pete Hamill's column in The Post devoted to violent toys he mentioned CHICKEN OUT a game about being muy macho that must have been dreamed up by Hemingway.
Called Bill Bentzin and told him of getting HIGH BID instead of ACQUIRE. He said to keep the former and he'd send me the latter as soon as he gets some more. His last one was sent to somewho who was connected with some kind of a banker's publication and requested information about ACQUIRE.
In May's bought BARREL OF MONKEYS to give to Claude. Also saw REFLEX (Lakeside). This is a game for 2. There are 3 dice, with numbers but different colors on different colors on some of the faces. There is a wire gadget as illustrated with moveable pcs. that can be flipped to the top. Players in turn take the dice and choose a type of combination, such as all odd, all low numbers (1,2,3), all red. He then keeps throwing the dice till a proper combination shows up. When a proper combination shows up each player tries to be the first to flip his pc. to the top. If a player gets to the top on a false throw, he loses points.
[SMALL DIAGRAM OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE A WIRE GADGET. THERE IS A VAGUELY 'M' SHAPED PORTION IN THE CENTER WITH LINES ATTACHED AT EITHER SIDE AT THE BOTTOM>]
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