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Saturday 27 March 1971

86th day - 279 days to come

Working on NOMINATION cards.

Rcd. the contracts for AIRLINE and TRANSFORMATION from Mary Hilt. They're OK now.

Rcd. a letter from Tom Atwater and the following rules: !@#C&*! GAME, CUBIDS, COLLISION - COURSE, BUFFALO, STRETCH-BLOCKS, THE MOEBIES, HOPPING-MAD-WAR, TWIDDLY-GOLF.

Dale and Phil played the SETENCE CUBE GAME. BB tried it. And in the evening the Karlan's also liked it.
Started a game of PLANES but Sid & BB were up and down constantly and noone could concentrate. I got so frustrated that I broke up the game, and also the board.
At night thought of simplifying PLANES. Use only 4 symbols - 13 of each (6 -1s, 5-2s, 2-3s). When 4 or 3 play each has a sym- bol and a plane can only be taken by a player whose symbol pre- dominates. (In 3-hand the neutral color is not counted for this.) When 2 play each has two symbols. The two identification cards are placed one on top of the other. Only the top one can be removed. After making a play the player can reverse them.

(cont. from 3/28) [3/29]

type layout with a digit from 1 to 9 in each space. They are designated with suit coordinates at the top cards are drawn & players cover the number if they have it under the proper suit. When a player gets four in a row, drawing of cards stops. Each player picks out a row of 3 or 4 covered numbers and writes in on a special sheet, substituting O's fro the uncovered numbers. Then a "base" card is drawn. The deck consists of 2 each of bases 2 to 9 and 4 of base 10. Any digits a player has in his number that do not apply in the chosen base are changed to 0 and then the number is translated from the chosen base to base 10 (Pluto Base). At the end of ten "flights" the player with the highest Pluto Base total wins. There is a revolving gadget to do the translating. (There are some variations and a few other refinements.)
The secretary showed me some clippings about G. & R. THE LIB GAME was covered in one. It seemed to be very much like CONFRONTATION in play.
When I said that Charles Wibel promised me copies of NEW TOWN and his other games, she said that it might be a while. He is short of cash. The owner of Plan B, on the contrary, has a good job in advertising, as well as right parents.

To Ken Morgan's house: [bracket] Ken Morgan
54 W. 16th St. (Apt. 8H)
(243-2668)
(cont. on 3/30)

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English Saturday 27 March 1971
86th day - 279 days to come


Working on NOMINATION cards.
Rcd. the contracts for AIRLINE and TRANSFORMATION from
Mary Hilt. They're OK now.
Rcd. a letter from Tom Atwater and the following rules:
!@#C&*! GAME, CUBIDS, COLLISION - COURSE, BUFFALO,
STRETCH-BLOCKS, THE MOEBIES, HOPPING-MAD-WAR, TWIDDLY-GOLF.
Dale and Phil played the SETENCE CUBE GAME. BB tried it.
And in the evening the Karlan's also liked it.
Started a game of PLANES but Sid & BB were up and down
constantly and noone could concentrate. I got so frustrated
that I broke up the game, and also the board.
At night thought of simplifying PLANES. Use only 4 symbols - 13
of each (6 -1s, 5-2s, 2-3s). When 4 or 3 play each has a sym-
bol and a plane can only be taken by a player whose symbol pre-
dominates. (In 3-hand the neutral color is not counted for this.)
When 2 play each has two symbols. The two identification cards are
placed one on top of the other. Only the top one can be removed. After
making a play the player can reverse them.


(cont. from 3/28) [3/29]
type layout with a digit from 1 to 9 in each space. They are
designated with suit coordinates at the top cards
are drawn & players cover the number if they have it under
the proper suit. When a player gets four in a row, drawing of
cards stops. Each player picks out a row of 3 or 4 covered
numbers and writes in on a special sheet, substituting O's fro
the uncovered numbers. Then a "base" card is drawn. The
deck consists of 2 each of bases 2 to 9 and 4 of base 10.
Any digits a player has in his number that do not apply in the
chosen base are changed to 0 and then the number is translated
from the chosen base to base 10 (Pluto Base). At the end of
ten "flights" the player with the highest Pluto Base total
wins. There is a revolving gadget to do the translating.
(There are some variations and a few other refinements.)
The secretary showed me some clippings about G. & R. THE LIB GAME
was covered in one. It seemed to be very much like
CONFRONTATION in play.
When I said that Charles Wibel promised me copies of NEW TOWN
and his other games, she said that it might be a while. He
is short of cash. The owner of Plan B, on the contrary,
has a good job in advertising, as well as right parents.
To Ken Morgan's house: [bracket] Ken Morgan
54 W. 16th St. (Apt. 8H)
(243-2668)
(cont. on 3/30)