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TUESDAY 28 JULY 1970

209th day - 156 days to come

To Felicia at lunch time. Brought her about a dozen more report sheets and the rules for INDIAN CHESS. She thought I did a good job on them. She'll reproduce them on her machine and send a copy to Mr. Wei. Also gave her a repro of my letter to Jim Kraus on SEARCH and OCTRIX. Also returned the correspondence on Irwin Pfeffer.
Allan Turoff, who Claude had dealt with when Allan worked with Ned Strongin [Strong?], called and wanted to meet me and to re- turn a book of Claude's he had. I stayed around talking with Felicia till he got there.
Allan had a puzzle-game he left with her called MAKE-A-PUZZLE GAME. There are 2 sets of 25 square pcs. which can interlock on any side with each other. 2 play and each takes one set and arranges it into groups of from 3 to 5 pcs. which fit to- gether to form a square (or either one of the two figures shown in the variation). Then the pcs. are passed to the opponents. When a player succeeds in putting together his opponent's puzzle he takes his own again and has the time of a sand timer (with the game) to solve it. If successful he is the winner.
(If not?)
Since the idea of being able to assemble different puz- zles was somewhat reminiscent of my new version of FITTING & PROPER I told Felicia about it in general terms. Alan had some other GAMES but Felicia didn't take any of them. She will handle another PUZZLE which he had taken back to fix.
Allan came to Felicia thru Jake Williams.
Spoke to Felicia about Lily Elkan and she wants to see WALK, WADE, TAKE A CANOE! and CHALLENGE!
In a letter Felicia had from X they said they received TANGLED WEB & GENIUS BLOCKS. They didn't find the latter as difficult (challenging?) as they thought it would be from reading the rules.
The inventor of PSYCH-OUT insisted in taking his game back from X, which shook them up a little.
Felicia definitely thinks that we should refuse the terms 3M offered us on SEARCH. At present she has leverage with them since she is helping them in getting rid of the "Edu-Play-tional" line.
Norman Monath, the inventor of BALI, only gets 1% of the royalties from S&R for the first $80,000. (Per year or cumulative.) After this they split even.
Felicia had lunch with Mel Taft recently. He mentioned that my name is getting around more & more and that it is too bad that I am tied in with 3M. Felicia told him I would do games for anyone.
Western Printing is seriously thinking of going into adult games. There may be a meeting on it this coming Sep-
(cont. on 7/27)