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27 SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 1972
SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT - 58TH DAY - 308 DAYS TO COME

Finished the rules for LOTTERY, including a simplified ending, where each Office is counted at $2,000. Did the rules for SKYSCRAPERS.

At Dale's wedding Rick (Dale's friend) mentioned that two of his friends had NINE OF SWORDS and that he saw an ad for it, probably in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

New York TIMES had article on Toy Fair, but no ads. Very little on games in the article. (Filed in 1972 Misc. [miscellaneous] folder.)

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the games. They are trying to get reps since their salesmen don't seem to be able to sell games. He hopes that with slow improvement that by 5 years they should be earning something. Took the catalog. New are TAKE A CHANCE & DECEPTION which Mary will send me. They also have an addition edition of SPITE 'N' MALICE and SHANGHAI (which Mary says is the same as ZIONCHECK). Also there is a party game FIG LEAF which Mary says features complete frontal nudity (see catalog) and is played like PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY. TRANSFORMATION is still in, as well as the peg games. (Filed in 1972 Misc.)
Norton said they'd like some sophisticated card GAMEs to go with their FIG LEAF. Also a fast moving gambling GAME played with cards, but something new. I described HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME to him and he didn'y care for it. Described BIG FUNERAL and he was interested. (I believe that Norton said that I had till the end of April June to get things in - for which year?)
Met Felicia there. (Lillian Voegelin is showing things to Bill Dohrmann this morning.) Felicia took Mary to lunch, but Norton joined them and paid.
K.D. Products : - had the Canadian game STOCK TICKER. Also SHUFFAKURL an action combination with CURLING, SHUFFLEBOARD, and HORSE RACING. And ARMCHAIR GOLF. (Have rules for "Golf" and a sheet in 1972 Misc.)
Andrews Enterprises : - MAD-CAPS, a set of 26 puzzles. (Sheet with additional notes filed in 1972 Misc.)
Malmurph Enterprises : - Got rules for BACK-COURT and BLUE-LINE. (Later got the games and added this set of rules.)
Contemporary Products, Inc. : - Got a copy of their game HEX-TAC-TOE. In a few months, Mr. Roberts told me, he will be coming out with new rules of other games that can be played with the same equipment, such as playing placing the triangles so that a symmetrical pattern is formed. A player loses when he places a piece that cannot be matched symmetrically. Another variation is to play that no two of the same color can adjoin, and another that colors must always adjoin. (Didn't get the details.) Told him to send me the new rules when they were out and
(cont. on 2/26)