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'''FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER  1971'''  <br>
267th day - 98 days to come
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Rcd. 12 answers to <u>SLEUTH</u> problem.  One said he was a game  <br>
collector with over 200 games.  Another was a math teacher  <br>
who will use <u>SLEUTH</u> for teaching deductive logic.  <br>
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(cont. from 11/5) [11/5]


Told <u>Claude</u> that <u>Earl</u> offered to come next week to help  <br>
me test games, for my columns.  Claude would like to come,  <br>
if Earl can make it on Thursday.  <br>
At F.A.O. Schwartz looked at <u>AD-LIB</u> & <u>PLAY ON WORDS</u>.  The  <br>
former is played like <u>SCRABBLE</u> except that instead of  <br>
tiles with point values on them the letters are actually  <br>
plastic letter shapes and the values are printed in the  <br>
spaces on the board.  Letters put on double or triple  <br>
spaces affect the entire word but have no point value  <br>
of their own.  In drawing letters to plan with, they are  <br>
shaken from a special box.  Don't remember anything special  <br>
about the latter.  <br>
Looked at <u>LOGUS SR</u>. (Ideal - see 1971 catalog).  Each player has a  <br>
[diagram of 4X5 grid with letters in most of the boxes  <br>
DEAET  <br>
IN-BH  <br>
GOURM  <br>
C-LSO]  <br>
board with 18 sliding letter and 2 empty  <br>
spaces, as shown.  There is a pack of cards,  <br>
each one calling for a word category  <br>
and specifying a row in which it must be formed,  <br>
also a point value.  The first player to  <br>
form a proper word wins the card.  (Fairly  <br>
complete idea.)  <br>
To Riis Brothers. Nothing I don't know.  <br>
<u>Earl Perel</u> called. He'll come here next Thursday.  <br>
He is still working on a loan from the Small Business Adm.  <br>
The one to whom I sent the letter seemed impressed.  The next  <br>
step is for a volunteer retired businessman to visit Earl.  <br>
Earl is afraid that he will only be familiar with retail  <br>
of small manufacture businesses.  <br>
Earl played Claude's <u>MANIPULATION</u> the two times they got  <br>
together this week.  He wondered if he bothered Claude by of-  <br>
fering a lot of suggestions for changes, more in the matter  <br>
of presentation than in the rules.  I said that Claude wel-  <br>
comed the suggestions but it would be better to  <br>
give them all together, after the game is finished (Claude  <br>
had mentioned it to me.)  <br>
<u>Al and Adela Richter</u> her in the evening.  A number of his  <br>
craft ideas are being considered, by the Girl Scouts among  <br>
others, but nothing is being done with his games or puzzles.  <br>
Al and I played <u>ORION</u> (earlier in day I read over the rule  <br>
booklet.)  We played the "Hydra" and "Orion" variations  <br>
(cont. on 9/25)