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4 SATURDAY - MARCH 1972
84TH DAY - 302 DAYS TO COME

BOOK WORLD forwarded a letter from an Australian outfit asking for addresses for : - CAVEAT EMPTOR, ECOLOGY, GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME, NEW TOWN, and BRIDGETTE. Also a note that, although there has been interest in my columns, the companies are not interested in advertising.

Thought of another idea for a game using the SKYSCRAPERS. Two play. Each One controls the two low levels, the other the high. Pcs. [pieces] are placed one at a time. Players score for getting adjoined groups of their level. Possibly the square of the number. Possibly could be played by 3 or 4 if a series of games are played. Players would have to rotate levels since there are different numbers.

(cont. from 3/5) [3/15]

things for one or the other.
Phil said that everyone at Reiss is enthusiastic about Bob Hallowell's p. & p. games. Bob will need a success or he is in trouble. It is still not sure whether his public offering of stock will be sold.
The only one that Phil tried was WILDCAT and he liked it. He had some suggestions for adding interest : - 1) When a player succeeds in striking oil in all of the sites in a section he gets a bonus of 1 well on his score (which makes small sections somewhat more valuable. 2) A particularly high number is a high producer - worth 2 on the score. 3) A throw of, say, 12 calls for another throw to be read against a "chance" list and gives events such as fires, etc. Told him that my idea had been to keep the games simple, but that I would do some thinking on adding play value.
Told Phil that when I heard from Marshall Lucas I would contact him about getting HABITAT and HONORABLE RELATIONS from him. FREE FORM presents an "agent" problem. We didn't mention SPACE STIX. Incidentally, I told Phil that Lucas didn't seem that interested in board games, despite Hochstetter's report.
Rcd. [received] a call from Sym Robbins. John Rasor had called and said that the Xerox shop couldn't understand the drawings for MILL and CONNACTION. They would like a picture of them all put together. I said that I was surprised that they hadn't kicked about BEAN BAG TARGET. Sym asked me to send that too.
Told Sym about S & R [Selchow and Righter] and the shipping crate for RSVP. He doesn't want to pay for a crate. Asked him whether he wanted the 12' x 12' PARCHEESI board. He'll check with Bernie and get back to me. (He called while I was out and I called back).

Rudy Lopez called and I told him that I located the difficult LIVE WIRE. I'll bring it to him in Astoria Queens tomorrow.
(cont. on 3/3)