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11/11
11/10

SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 1970

318th day - 47 days to come

Pete Swift here for lunch. Discussed his GAME which he is calling EL TABLERO DE JESUS. He has a mock history of the game which he writes up as a 15th Century game played by monks and finally banned by the pope. The board will be wood with a silk-screened surface made to look medieval. [drawing on left side of page of a 7x7 grid with title written in on both sides of the board and some squares with a squiggly circle in them.] His idea is to sell it in expen- sive specialty shops.
Instead of chips he wants to use replicas of Spanish coins (36 are req'd). I showed him the coins in THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY GAME. He'd like something like that, but they do have to be piled.
He had the 9 marked spaces on the board for decoration but I got an idea for using them in the game. When a player takes off a line he also gets an extra coin from the opponent as a bonus for each coin on a marked space.
Pete, BB and I played a number of games. It was quite pleasant.
Each player starts with 18 coins. Throw dice for first. High goes first and places 5 coins to the other players' 2 [crossout] (this is a new idea I just thought of). Throw 2 dice and move two coins or one coin the sum of the 2, but cannot change direction (this is a good rule that Pete always had, but I missed the first time he told me the game.)
The rules are the same as for those on 10/9 except for changes [crossout] and clarifications as shown above and below.
When a player takes over from the other player after the throw of a 7 he immediately takes off any cover- ing coins, if there are any, but a line cannot be taken off until the new player has made at least one throw of the dice.
A player must make both moves if possible. Thus if only one could be moved 5 and the player throws 5-3 he may not move that coin 3 spaces. An impossible die is ignored. A throw of 7 with all coins in the end rows is ignored. If a player can complete a row of 7 with a throw of 1 die he can ignore the other. It is up to a player to catch his opponent's throws of 7 by saying "Diablo" (my idea to use this expression). Pete wants to make up about 250 copies of the game and try them out in specialty stores.
I told him about Bob Reiss and he would like to talk to Reiss about it before he goes ahead. I called Phil

(cont. on 11/11)