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SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY Second Sunday in Lent George Washington--Born 1732 1970 53rd day - 312 days to come

Peter Swift over with his GAME. It is a simple dice game but one that is fun to play. Played two games and I made some suggestions he liked for smoothing out the rough edges. He asked if I would be willing to write the in- structions. We agreed that instead of being payed to do it I'd get 7 1/2% of whatever he makes on it. He has some ideas for promoting the game and subcontract- ing the manufacture. He apologized for not telling me about them yet. He has a name but it is tied in with the pro- motion and he didn't give me that either. He left the game with me and I showed it to Morris and my father. They liked it. Played 2 games with dad. Peter brought me two prints of very old GOOSE GAMES he found at the old print room of the 42nd St. library. Put them with LE NOBLE JEU DE L'OIE, which I showed him.

Phil Orbanes called. Bob Hallowell is going to his house Tuesday afternoon. Then they will come here for sup- per, including Jim Dunnigan, and to look at my games.

Claude called. Date for Wednesday. Nothing particularly about games.

(cont. from 2/26) [2/26] like a dog's dish) first. (Jerry will show it to Mel Taft when he goes to M.B. tomorrow.) OUTASITE this is the same as CODE (See 1968) except that it now has a special pen that writes invisibly and another to bring out the writing. (Didn't look at the details.) COUP D'ÉTAT has been returned by Parker. PLUG A JUG has sold 40,000 so far. ALPHABET WHEEL:- A spinning wheel with the letters around in two rings, upper and lower case. Child spins and identifies the letter spun. THE SOMA TRIANGLE (Done by Stanford Research Inst.) [diagram of 3 x 3 rectangular grid attached to triangle composed of 9 connected triangles] Triangular prisms are connected into 7 pcs. of various configurations which are put together to form the figure shown. (He showed it to Parker and they weren't interested. He thought they should have been.) CAPTURE ON THE MOON. A GO simplification played in the spaces of a 16 x 16 quadrille (decorated to look like a pic- ture of the moon's surface). There are 100 blue, 100 orange, 50 red, and 50 green markers. These are placed in turn in the space. Object is to surround territory. Any enemy pcs. when territory is surrounded are captured. [diagram to left of 5 x 4 grid with three dark circles in first row, one dark circle in second row, one dark circle in third row, one dark circle in fourth row] Illustration shows a surrounded territory at the corner of the board. If any edge of the (cont. on 2/21)