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22 WEDNESDAY - MARCH 1972
82ND DAY - 284 DAYS TO COME

Call from Felicia. She had a pleasant letter from Kathy Brooks. Because of Keith's troubles the panel testing of J'ACCUSE and FOREIGN INTRIGUE was held up. There will be an answer by April 15th.
Felicia wrote to Jim Kraus asking if they wanted to see TORTS - THE GAME OF LAWSUITS again. She didn't even get an answer. She has pretty much decided that it isn't very interesting as a game - too specialized in its interest. I told her that it was a lot better than POINT OF LAW in my opinion.
She rcd. [received] the financial statement on Leisure Dynamics from Hank Simmons. They appear to be in good shape.

Lech Pijanowski's book PRZEWODNIK GIER, and a folded sheet booklet ORIGAMI. The book is just about the most comprehensive collection of games I have ever seen. He has FOCUS and SLAM in the book, with my name mentioned. But he didn't include AGOG in the bibliography.
Lech had a game called TANGRAM which I figured to be a game of placing the pieces from one set of TANGRAMS onto a field until a player can't place one. I thought of each player having his own set and having a board divided into different areas for 2, 3, and 4 players. The last player to place a piece wins.

Rcd. an ad from Publishers Central Bureau which included two books I would like to order : -
MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS by Hunter & ILLUSTRATED GAMES OF PATIENCE a facsimile of Lady Cadogan's original 1870 book.

Rcd. NOST-ALGIA #142. Contained an article on UNAMBIGUOUS 3-SYMBOL CHESS (U-CHESS). Also one on variants of INTERNATIONAL CHECKERS.

[Diagram of an 8 x 8 grid board. All 64 spaces are marked with an X. The board is subdivided into 3 large regions : - the two leftmost columns, a 5 row by 6 column area in the top right, and a 3 row by 6 column area at the bottom right. A '4' points to the left area. A '2' points to the top area. A '3' points to the bottom right region.]

Bill Rawlings had another CRISS-CROSS puzzle, this time on "Games People Play". I couldn't place five of the entries - VETO, KAOOA, SIXEACE, TEDCO3D, COMPROMISE. Also included were MATE, TRUC, ACQUIRE, VENTURE, LAP.

Fred Feucht called. It seems that nobody likes the name TOURNEY - also getting pictures presents a problem. We tried to come up with another name, but without success.
Fred asked if Marshall Lucas had contacted me, which he hadn't. Fred said he was in Monday and now is out of town for a while. Next time they are together Fred will remind Marshall about me.Herb Hochstetter and Fred prepared a study for M.B. suggesting that they go in for adult board games.

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