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SATURDAY 17 APRIL 1971

107th day - 258 days to come

Rcd. a letter from Keith Tuggle saying that he was having two cases of EXECUTIVE DECISION games sent to me. The zip code was wrong and I wrote to thank him, and to mention the wrong zip.

Rcd. the TRANSFORMATION & AIRLINE contracts (a signed copy of each) from Mary Hilt. No word about a check.

Rcd. PANZERFAUST (Apr. '71- #43).

Working on rules of PLANES.

Thinking back on my old GAME idea of having 3 or coins pushed in a row, and decided to substitute mag- nets for coins. Has a lot of potential, but could go something like this. From a piece of masonite cut an ir- regularly spiral path, with widening and narrowing sections. At the outer end have a starting line with space for lining up 4 magnets behind it. Each player has one magnet that is his by color. There are also another 3 magnets which can be numbered 1, 2, and 3. Each player pushes his magnet in a series, with 1 pushing his magnet, 2 pushing 1, and 3 pushing 2 - with his finger on 3. Push until a timer runs out or until one of the magnets goes over an edge (the spiral being raised a little above the table). If the player's magnet goes off, he must start againa in his next move. If #1 or #2 go off, his turn ends put his magnet stays where it is; also if the timer runs out. An opponent's magnet may be pushed over the edge, but only by your mag- net.

Al & Adela Richter over in the evening. He had two GAME ideas. We played one and he told me about the 2nd.

[Drawing on left of page of a 18x18 grid with the top having 3 sets of 5x4 dots drawn within the cells (groups separated with 3 columns) and the bottom of the grid having the same series of dots, drawn in red.]

The GAME we played was played on a GO board, but in the spaces. 120 stories were sprayed with red on one side and left black on the other. Each player starts with 60 turned to his color, as shown. A move consists of taking a pc. from any- where in a group and placing it next to, including diagonally, one or more pcs. in the same group. Groups can be joined together, or separated into smaller groups, but nom group can remain on the board is less than 7 stones.
When enemy pcs. are next to each other, nothing happens until one player has three pcs. next to, includ- ing diagonally, one of the opponent's

(cont. on 4/5)