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19 SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 1972
50TH DAY - 316 DAYS TO COME

Working on more DIALEMMA puzzles. Have 10 now.

Bob Gellman called. Went over slides still needed for HOLIDAY. He is thinking of the possibility of eliminating Michele's slides altogether.
I asked him about the war GAME that came up Thursday. Bob Schneider wants a game about Patton. He gave me his number in New York and asked me to call
{Bob Schneider
{734-1745
to talk to him about it.
Bob called me Gellman called me back to say that Schneider called him and he has the game worked out. He is interested in advertising in S & T. I said that the game has to be pretty realistic to appeal to the readers.

Played MASTERPIECE with BB, Dana, Dale, & Phil. Each player started at at "Private Auction" space, chosen in order. Move one space at a time. Differences from existing rules: "May sell to bank" - choose picture. Throw 1 die and $50,000 times no. is a commission. May, instead of selling to bank, put it for auction to highest bidder. If no one bids, the picture is lost to the bank. "Private Auction" - choose one picture, opponent's or own and have it auctioned. If an opponent's, player must start bidding with $100,000. "Any space with a dollar value" - instead of following instructions on space may buy any picture from an opponent. Throw 2 dice - if 8 or less pay amount on space. If more than 8 pay twice. Players must if possible always make a play. For instance if land on"Buy from bank for $350,000" and all pictures are gone, must buy from an opponent.
Intended to play until all players had gone around the board once but this was too long. Stopped at half way.
Later thought of following changes: Players in turn can move 1 or 2 spaces. Mark the starting spaces with an arrow marker. As soon as a player gets back to his start, or one space passed with a move of 2, the game is ended unless all pictures are not gone from the bank, in which case continue till they are. In any case players who went after at start get a catch up turn. When selling to bank, instead of a commission there is a fluctuation. An odd number is up and an even number is down. In buying a picture from another player throw one die. 1 to 4, pay 1x. 5 or 6, pay 2x.
At the end of a player's turn he may look at the value of one picture, paying $50,000 to the opponent whose picture is looked at.

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In supermarket saw that one of the cereal boxes advertised that it contained a "Mini" INSTANT INSANITY.