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5 SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 1972
36TH DAY - 330 DAYS TO COME

Thinking of pencil & paper games: -
TOURNEY - Forming a continuous path, making marks by knight's moves.
HEXOWORD - Same as WORD SQUARES except that field consists
of 19 hexes and words are formed in three directions.
CIRCLEWORD - A similar word game. Spaces are arranged in a
ring. Players call out letters to each other in turn. Can place them
anywhere. Object to form as many words as possible
(i.e, - SATED, counts as SAT, SATE, SATED, AT, ATE). Score for each.

Played CONNECTIONS with Phil Laurence. Elaine, and Elliot. It dragged
on for a long time, since there was almost 3 players
to stop one who was within one hop. Decided to make a double
a lost turn rather than a free turn among cities starting with
that number. Later decided to allow a free turn with
a double, but not into a city where all the hops have been taken.
Also, probably, a player cannot win on a double.
Played DRILL FOR OIL with Phil and Elaine. 1st game played that
the order of play always remained constant. This was very
unfair to those going later. Played a second game with the
rule that the player with least wells, picks - and later plays -
first. In case of tie throw dice and low goes first. When
all property has been claimed, the player claiming the last
piece then drills and continue in clockwise order
(which is not the way we did it, but is probably better).
The second game was much closer.
Played AIR BATTLE with Phil. It played O.K. except that the
record keeping was a little tricky. Phil suggested just
having the airfields and the guns, and I think he is right.

(cont. from 2/8) [2/11]

and Adela. They liked them.
At first showed me a PUZZLE he was working on. There were
two plastic pcs. with two sizes of holes and
some spaces without holes (Similar to sketch
shown). There are 3 pegs (as shown).

[Diagram of a 4 x 4 grid with holes as described above. Also shows one 'peg'.]

Object is to one pc. on the lower level
so that it is stable and the other on
the upper level.
This was rather easy, but he is making
another one with 3 levels, which will make
it much more challenging.
I asked about his "Checkerboard" PUZZLES (see 1/21). He
decided to try it with Edson. Edson was talking about
Hallmark or Gabriel. With Gabriel, Edson was talking about
having them marketed as Piet Hein puzzles, which didn't
make Al very happy.
[Started 2/11]