Return to revision history

Wikitext

HTML

MONDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 1971

Labor Day 249th day - 116 days to come

Made a model of the PUZZLE of 7/19, possible name GROOVE. The puzzle works very well. As a game, the pieces are divided equally and then placed on the board one by one. The last to place a pc, wins.

Made a rough set for THE WORM TURNS with from 3 to 8 long of each type. Played around and found a solution fairly quickly. Then made a fancy set using this distribution. Experi- mented with the game. Let the player who will play second -and play to close- divides the pcs. as he wishes. The first player chooses the half he wishes and then plays. Allowing the 2nd player to play from either end almost always gave him the game. I then tried letting the 1st player play at either end and the 2nd has to play at that end. That seemed to give a little edge to the 1st player. Limiting all the plays to the same end seemed to be the best rule.

(cont. from 9/9) [9/9]

the numbers reversed - the 1's to the starting position of the opponent's 25's, etc. (Later saw it cheaper at Marboro's.) At A. & F. saw that MONGER (see 1970) was reduced to $18.00 - still too high.

To BOOK WORLD for my meeting with Eve Auchincloss. Make it about 1500 words and the deadline is Nov. 19th. In talking MONOPOLY came up and I told her about THE LANDLORD'S GAME. She said it would be nice if I could get in some historical material. I quoted the space limitation. She agreed and said maybe I could do another historical piece early next year.
I'm to contact her as soon as I get back to see if there are any changes - since they are working on their format.

To Reiss Associates a little before the earliest (3 P.M.) that I was supposed to be there. Bill Knox of Mag-Nif in from Cleveland and he postponed another appointment to wait for me. Showed him GROOVE and he liked it - also the name.
He offered me a 5% contract, based on amount before sales commission. No Advance. He expects to have it ready by January '72. Estimated selling price - $2. He wanted to visit me to see what else I have. Told him that I only have sketches now and I'd much rather have finished models. He'll come in about 6 weeks. Anything he likes then will be ready for '72 Stationery Show. Joel Gaines was there with his game INTERPLAY (formerly ZIG-ZAG). He offered not to name if I objected but I

(cont. on 9/5)