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TUESDAY 13 APRIL 1971

103rd day - 262 days to come

Felicia called BB. Still no word from Hallmark, but Felicia has been away from the office.
She has word from 3M that WILD WOOD PILE is too difficult & frustrating. They want it made easier.

Rcd. NOST-ALGIA (#132, April 1971). Bob Bruce had a review of a 12-typewritten page booklet by Vernon R. Parton of Liverpool England called CHALLENGE AND DELIGHT OF CHESSICAL AND DECIMAL. It has 14 new CHESS variants and they are listed here with notes on them, but not complete rules:- AMBI-CHESS, MEDDLER'S CHESS, BLOG-STRAIGHT CHESS, DAMATE GAME, BEST DECIMAL BUTTER, HALF-QUEEN'S CHESS, GORGONA CHESS, CHESS TWEEDLE GAME, CENTAUR ROYAL, WYVERN CHESS, CAPABLANCA CHESS, DECIMAL FALCON-HUNTER, CHIMERA, MOCK CHESS.

Bought 3 yards of green contact at cross-county.

BB had started on the blue painting for the TRANSFORMATION stones, but we didn't care for the color. I prepared more beads and painted the two faces.

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is an area marked "Kitchen." A number of "female" pieces (nuts) are started here. A number of "male" pieces (bolts) are started around the kitchen and try to stop the female pieces from leaving and entering various male sanctuaries. (Rough idea.) Told Phil about OH PEG IT.
Bob Reiss at one time handled NUMBLE, until it was licensed to S.&R. He says it was good seller, and that it sells 150,000 a year for S.&R. He would like a tile game, but not one with letters or numbers. Phil told him about INFINITY and he will look at it. I said that INFINITY was a great idea, but needed a lot more work to make it a great game. Phil agreed. If Bob is interested in it we will work together on perfecting it. We'll work out the financial details later.
Phil is working on another GAME idea by a fellow - Herb Hochstetter - who comes up with ideas but can't work out the games. There is a cube mounted so that it pivots. Each of the 4 vertical faces has a quadrille board with cut- outs where pcs. of various colors can be placed. Each player (from 2 to 4) has a color and places pcs. of that color. Each player places a pc. on the side facing him. Then the cube is turned a quarter turn. Etc. As a possible objec- tive, each player might select one of a limited number of patterns, that he must complete. At the same time the

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