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WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 1970

224th day - 141 days to come

Ken Morgan called. He'll bring a copy of MOVIE MOGULS to the office tomorrow.

Called Tom Nelson. Told him of the GRIT interview. Marvin Katz saw him about getting new products into TOYS & NOVELTIES. He'll take care of sending me copies of ODD OR EVEN, TEMPO, and ODD OR EVEN. Also some kind of offset sheet on the games. The printed brochures are quite expensive.

Felicia called to assure me that the letter she wrote to Jim Kraus yesterday on PROFIT was not one that would offend him in any way.
Allan Turoff has a fun strategy GAME that could be a whole line. He may want me to help develop it for 1/3 to 1/4 of the royalty. Possibly get together next week.

Thought of a GAME idea which can be played with pencil and paper or could use a rubber stamp. Board is a 6x6 quadrille as shown. Each player (2 play) in turn blacks in a square until eight are filled. Then the first player place an X. The next places a O orthogonally next to it. And so on. The last player to place a mark is the winner.
Later thought of a variation. Once in each game a player may make a diagonal move, except that the diagonal move may not be [crossout] between two black space.
Incidentally, in placing the black spaces an area may not be completely blocked off.

[Above drawn is a 6x6 grid with some squares colored in and Xs and Os written in some squares connected by a red arrow.]

Another GAME idea. On a rather large quadrille of dots players draw rectangles trying to be the last one to place one. Dominos, with all the blanks removed, could be used to determine the sizes of the rectangles to be placed.

[Drawing of overlapping rectangles.]

Rcd. a letter from J.C. Golba who borrowed AGOG from a library. He described a simple Baseball GAME he de- vised and asked for my advice on marketing it.

The set of TELBAX cards arrived from Martin Gardner.

Played A.H.'s THE STOCK MARKET GAME with the Laurences. Speculative dominated the play and no one care for it much.

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English WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 1970
224th day - 141 days to come


Ken Morgan called. He'll bring a copy of MOVIE MOGULS to
the office tomorrow.
Called Tom Nelson. Told him of the GRIT interview. Marvin
Katz saw him about getting new products into TOYS & NOVELTIES.
He'll take care of sending me copies of ODD OR EVEN,
TEMPO, and ODD OR EVEN. Also some kind of offset sheet
on the games. The printed brochures are quite expensive.
Felicia called to assure me that the letter she wrote to
Jim Kraus yesterday on PROFIT was not one that would
offend him in any way.
Allan Turoff has a fun strategy GAME that could be
a whole line. He may want me to help develop it for 1/3 to
1/4 of the royalty. Possibly get together next week.
Thought of a GAME idea which can be played with pencil
and paper or could use a rubber stamp. Board is a
6x6 quadrille as shown. Each player (2 play) in turn
blacks in a square until eight
are filled. Then the first player
place an X. The next places a
O orthogonally next to it. And
so on. The last player to place
a mark is the winner.
Later thought of a variation.
Once in each game a player may
make a diagonal move, except
that the diagonal move may not
be [crossout] between two black
space.
Incidentally, in placing the black
spaces an area may not be completely
blocked off.
[Above drawn is a 6x6 grid with some squares colored in and Xs and Os written in some squares connected by a red arrow.]
Another GAME idea. On a rather large quadrille of
dots players draw rectangles trying to be
the last one to place one. Dominos, with
all the blanks removed, could be used to
determine the sizes of the rectangles to be
placed.
[Drawing of overlapping rectangles.]
Rcd. a letter from J.C. Golba who borrowed AGOG from a
library. He described a simple Baseball GAME he de-
vised and asked for my advice on marketing it.
The set of TELBAX cards arrived from Martin Gardner.
Played A.H.'s THE STOCK MARKET GAME with the Laurences.
Speculative dominated the play and no one care for it much.
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