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SATURDAY 14 MARCH 1970 73rd day - 292 days to come

Arthur called. He wanted me to ask Jim if he and Wald could rent the "Poultron Press" office, at a nominal cost, to bring people to show their games. I said that I doubted very much if Jim would agree but I promised to ask. Arthur said that he has some interesting things to show me. However he'd prefer not to get together with Claude. He said that Claude has been acting snide when they got together the last few times. I answered that Claude had the feeling that he always had to call them and that they never called him. Arthur said that that was different, but wouldn't call Claude when I suggested it.

Claude called, specifically to tell me about a book he saw advertised, but hasn't seen:- GODS AND GAMES: TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF PLAY by David L. Miller (World $5.95). Claude said that world was religiously oriented. Told Claude that I had seen number blocks at Felicia's but hadn't learned anything about them, so as to avoid an ethical conflict. At first he said I should have looked at them but then he agreed that I was right.

Played SEARCH with Phil, Annette, and BB. Tried the variation that a player could either call for the number of a set or could have the cards exposed for all the players to see. We ended up all working to pretty much the same in- formation and it was pretty dull. Then I tried a new variation. A player was passed the cards to see when asking for a set determined by two factors, but only got the number of a single factor set. "Choice" could be used either as a second factor or as a blank, calling for a single factor. A player could pass, throw in 2 cards, and replace them. This worked the best of any variation I have tried yet. I'll make this the basic game. Phil & Annette didn't think the name SEARCH was very good. Later I remembered that Ideal used RADAR SEARCH. I'll try to think of a new name.