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FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 1971 267th day - 98 days to come

Rcd. 12 answers to SLEUTH problem. One said he was a game collector with over 200 games. Another was a math teacher who will use SLEUTH for teaching deductive logic.

(cont. from 11/5) Told Claude that Earl offered to come next week to help me test games, for my columns. Claude would like to come, if Earl cam make it on Thursday.

At F.A.O. Schwartz looked at AD-LIB & PLAY ON WORDS. The former is played like SCRABBLE except that instead of tiles with point values on them the letters are actually plastic letter shapes and the values are printed in the spaces on the board. Letters put on double or triple spaces affect the entire word but have no point value of their own. In drawing letters to plan with, they are shaken from a special box. Don't remember anything special about the latter.

Looked at LOGUS SR (Ideal - see 1971 catalog). Each player has a [diagram of 4X5 grid with letters in most of the boxes DEAET IN-BH GOURM C-LSO] board with 18 sliding letter and 2 empty spaces, as shown. There is a pack of cards, each one calling for a word category and specifying a row in which it must be formed, also a point value. The first player to form a proper word wins the card. (Fairly complete idea.)

To Riis Brothers, Nothing I don't know.

Earl Perel called. He'll come here next Thursday. He is still working on a loan from the Small Business Adm. The one to whom I sent the letter seemed impressed. The next step is for a volunteer retired businessman to visit Earl. Earl is afraid that he will only be familiar with retail of small manufacture businesses. Earl played Claude's MANIPULATION the two times they got together this week. He wondered if he bothered Claude by of- fering a lot of suggestions for changes, more in the matter of presentation than in the rules. I said that Claude wel- comed the suggestions but it would be better to give them all together, after the game is finished (Claude had mentioned it to me.)

Al and Adela Richter her in the evening. A number of his craft ideas are being considered, by the Girl Scouts among others, but nothing is being done with his games or puzzles. Al and I played ORION (earlier in day I read over the rule booklet.) We played the "Hydra" and "Orion" variations (cont. on 9/25)