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Wednesday 3 June 1970

Confederate Memorial Day (Tenn., Ky.) 154th day - 211 days to come


Looked at the games Pierre loaned last night:-
[Drawing to the right comprised of triangles drawn together in a polygon with two triangles colored in, five triangles with letters A-E written in, and one triangle with "GO" written. Symbols drawn on left side of page has four upside down Vs: one with no dots, one with 1 dot drawn, one with 2 dots, one with 3 dots drawn. Underneath is a triangle with a square, one dot, and two dots drawn in each corner.]
LE TRIOKER - (I asked Pierre to send me the first six pages of the rules - the rest being devoted to puzzles.) The games are played with tri- angular pcs. 24 with all the combinations of the four sym- bols, as shown on the left. There is an additional pc. as shown, the [square] being wild. The dia- gram on the right is used in one of the games. (The 24 combinations: - 012, 021, 013, 031, 023, 032, 123, 132, 000, 001, 002, 003, 111, 112, 113, 110, 222, 223, 220, 221, 333, 330, 331, 332.)
(Key to the diagram:- A- "Payez 5 a la banque." B- "Prison for 1 turn." C- "Recevez 5 de la banque." D- "Recevez 2 de la Suivant." E- "Payez 2 a chaque jouer.") is an additional pc. ECHEC AUX CHEVALIERS - (Asked Pierre for the rules.) This is a variation of CAMALOT played on the board shown.
[Arrow drawn pointing to a 9x9 grid with some boxes containing Cs, "GOAL" or a jagged circle.]
MACADAM (Capiepa). An auto- mobile race game with dice, cards and some kind of points. (looked at for only a moment.) ELDORADO (Edmond Dujardin.) A MONOPOLY type game. (Asked Pierre for the rules - repros that is.) REPORTAGES (Edmond Dujardin.) A RUMMY type game based on news reporting. 54 card deck has 18 reporters, 16 events, & 18 stories. Different types of completed hands have different scoring values. (Asked Pierre to send repros of the rules.) RAFLE: (Edmond Dujardin.) Each player has a set of 46 paper slips with information, each re- presenting a suspect. One player chooses one of his suspects as the guilty party and the others try to be first to determine his identity. By use of cards (I believe) players are able to ask questions about the characterist[ics]s of the guilty party, such as "Is his hair brown?" only the player asking gets the answer, and sometimes it can be "I don't know." (Didn't get all the details, but they didn't seem too clear. Also it is supposed to be a game of deduction, but seemed to be merely a matter of elimination.)
Went thru the SPHINX repros quickly and picked out the
(cont. on 5/28)