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Saturday 13 November 1971 317th day - 48 days to come

Rcd. PANZERFAUST (#50 - Nov. '71). Has a do-it-yourself game BATTLE OF THE METAURUS RIVER, review of ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II, notice that ALESIA is no longer available, and an announcement from Lou Zocchi that he has a new revision kit for BATTLE OF BRITAIN. Rcd. Nov. TOYS. Nothing of interest. Thought of ideas for eliminating the "board game" look in LOTTERY. Have 6 cities instead of 7 and 6 offices in each, except one which has 5. Two dice of different colors locate the office "landed on." A third di with one face marked "CARD" and a second marked "BUY" direct a player, in addition to his landing move, to draw a card or to buy the landed on office for a price determined by throwing the two dice again. Possible idea -- throw one die, then decide whether want to buy or not. Price is $500 x the total of the two dice. The third die could have the numbers 1 to 4 on the other faces, for use in the lottery. The cities are each on a separate card with recesses for the markers, and can be arranged to fit the table. 2 other cards provide spaces for the "lottery" and the cards.

Spoke to dad, he is almost finished translating the German book -- EUGEN OKER'S SPIELWIESE.

Tried to set up a flow diagram for BEAT-THE-COMPUTER and discovered a number of discrepencies. Decided not to review it.

Played 2 games of BOUNDARY with Phil Laurence. He beat me twice. It seems just about impossible to safely remove a "guard" from the gold row.

(cont. from 11/14) [11/16]

Before going to Felicia I went to 200 5th Ave. at S&R got a list price of SENTENCE CUBE GAME. At G&R got list price of CAVEAT EMPTOR and NEW TOWN. Also picked up the rules of RICOCHET (a repro) and HAVOC.

Called Eve Auchincloss and asked her if there would be any objection to my including THE GODFATHER GAME in my BOOK WORLD column. She didn't think so, and especially when I said it was a good game based on GO she wanted it in. Read her my introduction and she liked it. Then wrote up SPEED CIRCUIT.

Earl Perel called. Didn't make a date until I finish column. [started 11/16]