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'3/12
13 MONDAY - MARCH 1972'
73RD DAY - 293 DAYS TO COME

Finished the rules for MASTERPIECE and wrote a letter
to Bill Dohrmann. BB typed them.

Bob Gellman called. I'll go up there Wednesday at 11 to
finalize the slides for HOLIDAY.

Felicia called to see if Dale delivered her message of last Friday.
She sent a covering letter to Bill Dohrmann listing the games
he took with him : - SPELLBINDER, LOTTERY, ESCAPE, and LOG JAM.
(or something like that). This is a manipulative game for which
she had had a model made. She had Bill Garrity of Schaper
in mind for it, but he never showed up. Dohrmann seemed
to like it.
I'll bring her SKYSCRAPERS after my visit with Gellman.
She said that in general she didn't care for puzzles, but
she liked this one.

Bob Hallowell called. Everyone at Reiss seems enthusiastic
about the pencil and paper games. He asked when he could have
the rules for DRILL FOR OIL and I told him I'd send them
today. He'll be putting them out in groups of 6, hopefully
reaching 24. The first 6 will probably be DRILL FOR OIL, TOURNEY, XANDO, HEXOWORD, CONNECTIONS, and AIR BATTLE.
Fred Feucht tried out the games with his family
and liked these. COLD WAR he didn't care for as much.
Bob asked me if other inventors submitted p. & p. games to
him and he took one or more for royalties, would I mind.
Of course not.
Bob wants actual photographs on the boxes, since
they are much more striking than a drawing. In the
case of an abstract game like HEXAWORD, he is thinking
of construction a 3-D model of the game and taking a
picture of it.
He is moving away from plastic items. His new ones this
year will be the p. & p. games, Phil Orbanes' "Biorythems"
program, and an action game - HEAD TENNIS. A net is formed
by hanging yarn from two posts and a balloon is hit over
it by two opponents, using only their heads.
I asked if he is still doing ORBIT. Yes. Told him of the
Xerox exhibit and he'll send 6 copies to Rochester.
I asked if he had any more copies of NINE OF SWORDS. He'll
send me 6.

Fred Feucht called. He was at M.B. last Friday. He met
{Marshall Lucas
{413-525-6411
who is in charge of the adult game line, seperate from
Dick Harris or Mel Taft (after I said I knew them). Fred told
Marshall about me and he'd like to talk to me. Fred suggested
(cont. on 3/12)