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79th day - 286 days to come | 79th day - 286 days to come | ||
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Rudy Lopez called. Told him about LIVE WIRE - QUICK SHOCK, actually | Rudy Lopez called. Told him about <u>LIVE WIRE - QUICK SHOCK</u>, actually | ||
LIVE WIRE - SUDDEN SHOCK would be a better name. Didn't make | <u>LIVE WIRE - SUDDEN SHOCK</u> would be a better name. Didn't make | ||
a specific date to get together, but will in a few weeks. | a specific date to get together, but will in a few weeks. | ||
Rcd. ''THE GENERAL'' (Mar. - Apr. 1971). Finally rcd. <u>RACE THRU SPACE GAMES</u> didn't unpack it since <u>Felicia</u> already gave me one). <br> | Rcd. ''THE GENERAL'' (Mar. - Apr. 1971). Finally rcd. <u>RACE THRU SPACE GAMES</u> (didn't unpack it since <u>Felicia</u> already gave me one). <br> | ||
Rcd. another letter from <u>Mary Hilt</u> | Rcd. another letter from <u>Mary Hilt</u>,this time on company station- | ||
ery. Partly in answer to my last letter, and also giving me | |||
info on contract [crossout] similar to yesterday. | |||
Sent a letter to <u>William A. Gale</u>. (See 3/10). Gave him, among other | |||
things, my new ideas on <u>SLAM</u>.<br> | |||
Wrote to <u>Professor Tanber</u>, who was interested in board games | |||
and saw me written up in <u>SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN</u>. Gave him <u>Haar Hoolim</u>'s | |||
address. Wrote to Haar telling him about it. | |||
BB and I to <u>Al & Adela Richter</u>. Brought him a copy of <u>TEMPO</u>. He | |||
showed me his games - really beautiful models that look professional. | |||
<u>TRY-ANGLES</u>: - Board is as shown, with the lines actually being grooves. | |||
There is a supply of pcs. (cut up knitting needles) | |||
the same length as one segment. Also chips in red | |||
and white. The first part of the game is like | |||
<u>BOXES</u> with each player in turn placing a seg- | |||
ment, unless a triangle is completed, in which | |||
case another segment is placed. When a player | |||
completes a triangle he places a chip of his | |||
color in it. When all triangles are filled, the | |||
2nd stage begins. Players in turn move one of their chips, either across | |||
an edge to an adjacent empty space, or if it is next to one or more of | |||
their own color it can be moved to any empty space adjacent to the | |||
group. (He asked if such a move had been used and I told him about | |||
<u>CHE</u> and also about my similar move in <u>LOTTO WAR</u> and <u>INVASION</u>.) | |||
object is to get chips into a hex or intto a large triangle (both shown). | |||
The chips on these configurations can be removed. Removing takes a | |||
turn and can be postponed as desired. When one player has three | |||
or less chips remaining, the game is over. Each player deducts the num- | |||
ber of chips remaining on the board from those he took off in order | |||
to get his final score.<br> | |||
Another variation, which played a lot better, was to eliminate the | |||
first stage and start the second from the position shown. Al was | |||
thinking of just using this. I suggested, instead, that he include | |||
both and try to come up with some others. A possibility, have two | |||
colors of segment pcs. When a player gets two, or three, of his color | |||
around a triangle he places his chip in it.<br> | |||
Al gave me a copy of <u>WOTTLE</u>, a pencil and paper word game he | |||
had tried to sell by mail order. He didn't get back the cost of the ads. | |||
<u>QUADRUME</u>:- A gambling game. Layout is a color wheel with 6 colors. | |||
There are 4 dice with the colors on the faces and a fifth die with | |||
faces something like 1-1-1-2-3-silver. Players place bets on a | |||
(cont. on 3/9) | |||