Saturday 3 January 1970
3rd day - 362 days to come
Packaging [illegible crossout] TOTALLY-- during day. Played several games
with BB.
Rcd. the letter from Charles Wibel with the rules for the
advanced version of QUADS.
Played QUADS, me against Dale & Phil. One game with the
regular rules and one with the advanced. The first was quite [illegible crossout]
easy as I found before. But the latter offered more challenge.
(cont. from 1/5) [1/5]
ECOPLANY. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from
recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly,
a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge
of civil war in no time.
The game, which sells at $12 a set, suggests some trans-
atlantic variations. In a direct adaptation, Americans could play
NONPLANY, in which participants must act like members of the
President's Council of Economic Advisers. Other possibilities:
GENERATION GAP (gain points by making the adversary feel mid-
dle aged and irrelevant), SILENT MAJORITY (you win by giving the
best impression of Spiro Agnew, lose if you sound more like Eric
Sevareid), ACADEMIC (up for snagging a federal consulting job, down if
students smoke your cigars). There could even be PRESIDENCY, which
no one could possibly win if he was once defeated for the office and
then lost the governorship of California.
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