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2/9 TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY Shrove Tuesday Mardi Gras (Ala., Fla., La.) 1970 41st day - 324 days to come

Armin Speer called. He is interested in my rewriting the rules for QUADS, since he liked how my X'Mas list column in S & T was written. He would like to see the one on QUADS and I said I'd send him my pre-publi- cation copy. I also said he should look at AGOG be- fore making up his mind to have me do the writing. I quoted him a price of $15 an hour and an esti- mate of 10 to 15 hours. He said that QUADS sold 300 copies thru GAME OF THE MONTH CLUB (N.J.).

Ran off repros of DICEY.

At barber shop saw Feb. 1970 POPULAR MECHANICS. It had an ad for CARIBBEAN CHECKER GAMES. C. Ljohn, 5118 Dorchester Chicago, Ill. 60615 ($2.00, color $3.00)

Rcd. letter from Haar Hoolim. He said he read AGOG hastilly.

Rcd. letter from Phil Cohen. He sent me information on the following: - NUCLEAR CHESS; REINCARNATION CHESS; ROTATION CHESS; [crossed out] RESTRICTED ROTATION CHESS; FREE ROTATION CHESS; DEPLOYMENT; DYNAMO CHESS; BALANCED MARSELLAIS DYNAMO CHESS. Also discussed my ideas on VIEWPOINT and he had some ideas of his own. Kruskal never answered him and he asked if I would sent him the rules of DELPHI. He declined my invitation to play postal FOCUS (the recording is difficult). He is playing LINES OF ACTION (4 games), CUPS, PAPER BOXING, and CROSSINGS. Will try TROMINO GO.

Feb. TOYS & NOVELTIES came (earliest yet). KING CHECK, a three-hand CHECKERS VERSION is shown in New Products.

Started a letter to Jared Johnson. Then started looking thru patents to find that predessessor of STRATEGO. It was TOGO in 1915.

[crossed out line] Claude stopped at my office after a visit to Ego. It is go- ing bankrupt and Claude was on his way to the outfit that did his puzzles to check on the royalties. He borrowed $5 from me in case he wanted to buy some puzzles. In evening called him. They treated him well and said that they would send the next royalties to him, but didn't go into amounts. They are interested in seeing more puzzles.

Made a layout for the puzzle EXCALIBUR with each of (cont. on 2/9)