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booklet). I will send Frank repros of the REVERSI section of HAND BOOK OF REVERSI, HALMA, & C.
Frank has been selling sets like the one Martin gave me to teachers, even tho he hasn't prepared the rules yet. Sid Sackson - POTENTIAL. Frank took the board and pieces. I will send him the corrected rules shortly. (I am pretty sure that I have a record of the board, but to be on the safe side I made a copy.)

[Diagram of a 6 x 6 square grid board.
Numbers in each space as follows : -
1 2 B4 B1 5 3
5 4 B2 B3 1 2
B1 B3 5 4 C2 C4
4 A2 A4 5 C3 C1
A2 A1 A3 C2 4 5
3 A5 1 C4 2 1
Some of the spaces also have a small A, B, or C inside.]

I suggested to Frank that, since cardboard boards are not his style, he could do POTENTIAL with a smaller vacuum formed board. The pieces can be cylinders, and Frank suggested octagons.
Frank said that in order to conserve his cash position, he is asking (not insisting) if inventors would take their royalties in stock. Claude is accepting stock. Martin Gardner wants cash. I said I'd split it half and half. Frank said he'd prepare the contract so that I could choose the proportion myself at all times. He also is asking each inventor if a clause giving P.B.S. 1% (of the 5%) in case of reliscensing
is O.K. I said sure. He thinks he may be able to sell out to Parker [Parker Brothers].
Frank sees Richard Moon (who writes the column for the San Jose SAN JOSE TIMES) about once a month. Next time he will give Moon my address. Perhaps he will write, or contact me when he goes to New York. Moon is very successful in his business and does the column as a labor of love.
We discussed PEGITY. Frank bought the molds from Parker and will also pay 5% royalties. I thought that he wanted me to prepare other games using the equipment, but he is going to do that himself. He thought that I had some historical material on it and wanted to pay me for writing it up. I told him that I was pretty sure that I didn't have any info that he didn't have himself but that if I did I would send it to him without charge.
He is interested in using AGOG as a textbook for his classes - about 150 students a term. I will send him Castle Book's address.
He mentioned that a scientist had come up with a new PUZZLE form. Two of the faces from his cubes with fingers for joining are pushed together. A ring can be maneuvered around the fingers and different conditions can be acheived by eliminating different fingers.
He gave me a catalog (dated 1971) which includes among others : - BLOCKWORD CROSSPUZZLE, CRICKET CAGES, GENIUS BLOCKS, and REVERSI.
Frank is going to put out a set of TANGRAMS. He wants
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