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SATURDAY 6 MARCH 1971

Ember Day 65th day - 300 days to come

Rcd. Vol. 1, No. 2 of SOMA ADDICT. Rcd. March PLAYTHINGS.

Phil brought me a CITY COLLEGE GAME, a spoof from the college paper- "Observation Post."
Phil & Dale tried WILD WOOD PILE, without success.

In evening Miriam & Jerry Frederick tried WILD WOOD PILE, also without success. BB stayed up very late with it and also failed.
Mary Hilt called. Will meet tomorrow at 6 New York Hilton.

(cont. from 3/5) [3/4]

Pegs are placed on the board, which has a rim, and the pcs. placed on the pegs. Presumably only one arrangement will fit. As a game, players take a peg and a pc. and place them. Last to place a pc. wins. (Tom will send me rules.) (3M, Hallmark, Creative Playthings & Hank Simmons are all interested.)
HOPPING-MAD-WAR - an improvement of WAR LORDS. (Tom will send me rules.) (Creative Playthings is interested.)
TWIDDLY GOLF - Played a little. A golf tee, various shaped greens with sand traps around them, trees. Different holes are set up by different arrangements of the compon- ents. A disc is shot with a device (actually a pick for a Japanese instrument). Different materials of construction and different methods of shooting give golf-like results. (3M and Parker interested.) HUE & CRY - A card game with a 36 card modified standard deck. Tom had no details. (3M interested.)
MAD MATE - (3M is now very interested. Before this they were not willing to pay a royalty but now that their CHESS set in the book shelf packaging was a success that are.)
ROUND THE CLOCK - (No one is interested.)
GOOD KNIGHT - Tom said a contract was signed for this last year but they can't decide what package to put it in.
Tom said that after Alex refused the reduction in royalty and insisted on 5% on any future games, 3M wouldn't look at his things for several years. Then they asked to see them a- gain.
One reason that Alex is living in Japan is that he doesn't have to pay income tax either here or there.
Tom also said he is sure that royalties on a patented game are considered Capital Gains.
Tom told me about TIC-TAC-TOTAL (by Cambridge Games). There are 9 - 3x3 layouts, forming a large 3x3 layout. On each of the small layouts the four corner spaces are all the same color (same color for all 9). The other 5 are 5 different colors. A die has the 6 colors. 2 play and take turns

(cont. on 1/8)