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Saturday 3 January 1970

3rd day - 362 days to come

Packaging [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 [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.