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9/7 9/6 9/5 8/28 8/22 TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 1970 251st day - 114 days to come

To Felicia at 11, due to a subway delay. Rudy Lopez there but he didn't have his games with him. When Gary Sherbell came Rudy left, but with appointment to get together at 3:30.

When Gary showed Felicia his game TORTS - THE GAME OF LAWSUITS and she saw the 4 single-spaced pages of rules she was ready to give up. From his brief description I thought it would be good and insis- ted on playing. We both liked it after we played. The board is as shown. The center space are for the deck and discard pile. From 3 to about 8 can play with each having a marker. There is a deck of 140 cards consisting of the following:- For each of the 6 "Torts" there are 3 each of 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 witness cards. [Total 90] Star Witness (15) - - - - 12 cards. Objection - - - - - - - - 10 " Overruled - - - - - - - - - 6 " Appeal - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 " Countersuit - - - - - - - - 10 " [Total 50] There are 2 dice. Players start at "start" and move in turn by throw of two dice. When a player lands on the same "tort" as another player he may, if he wishes, sue. On the same "tort" with 2 or more players can chose any one, or none. Each player has 14 cards in his hand. When a 7 is thrown the player moves and then takes three cards from the deck and then discards, face up, to return to 14 cards. Two or more players can be on the same space at the same time. When a player lands on a corner space he moves to any one of the 6 "tort" spaces next to it in the direction of the arrow. When a player is in position to, and chooses to, he sues by announcing the player he is suing. The amount of the suit is based on the side of the board occuppied by the player sued, not the one doing the suing. The player sued may settle out of court by paying the one suing the amount of the suit. If he chooses to fight and he loses he must pay the amount plus $5,000. If he wins he collects only $5,000. If, however, he has a "Countersuit" card and chooses to play it as soon as he is sued, whoever loses must pay the other player the amount of the suit plus $5,000 - all doubled ((i.e. ($20,000 + $5,000) x 2 = $50,000)). If the player being sued chooses to fight, the one suing starts by playing a witness card of the proper "tort" or a star (cont. on 9/7)