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SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 1970
Old Defenders' Day (Baltimore, Md.)
255th day - 110 days to come

Wrote to Mrs. Frances Sheridan Gaulant [?] (See 7/21) telling her about THE FIRESIDE BOOK OF CARDS at Biblo & Tannen

Using the strips I had start

Phil Laurence, after reading my rules for COMBINATION, Thastily and inaccurately came up with a 2-hand version. We tried it a few times coming up with this as the final version. The 16 cards are dealt out in a 4x4 layent and the remaining 24 are divided equally between the players, Each player plays the color of which he has a prepondenence. If one has the same # of red and black while the other has a preponderence of one color that determines the division (What it both are tied?) The cards are placed face up since all the cards are known.... ... of bichrice A player in his turn places a card on the layout - by the two adjoining lands in an orthogonal straight line Con around the corher for a corner position) must add up to the same final digit as the card being. placed. If the card is the same color as the cand already in that position, it covers it. If the color is different the card con top card of a pile) is taken and the new cand placed in its position. If the card removed is the opponent's color it is captured and counts its numenical value. If the card removed is the player's own color he adds it to his playable cands for future use. We disagreed on the procedure when a player has no card that he can place... Phil gave him the night to turn over one of the positions on the layout I have him lose his turn until able to play again if at all). same is over when one player is out of cards under my rule, Under Phil's, when no further plays can be made. Later I thought of the following which might on might not, be an improvement Divide the 40 lands by color, Each player shuffles his half and deals out 8 cards. These are combined shuffled and used for the layout Cauds can be placed according to the uumber relationships at my solitaire version. When a cand is placed on one's own color it stays there but when the opponent places a cand on that pile all the cards are captured. (Not tested.) 4