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30 SUNDAY - APRIL 1972
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER - 121ST DAY - 245 DAYS TO COME

Call from Claude. Nothing specifically about games.

(cont. from 5/1) [5/2]

of the alphabet are included in the 30 letters.)
TALKING CUBES (Word) About 16 letter cubes are shaken at random into triangular spaces holes in a raised platform so that three letters on each show. All players try to form as many words as possible using faces in certain set ways going around a cube and from cube to cube.
ANGLE TANGLE (Word) Flat pcs. [pieces] of plastic are bent so that they form an angle. These are placed in a bowl-like container. The plastic pcs. have holes in different positions. Players in turn use a hook to withdraw "angles" from the pile without disturbing the others (almost impossible). Each angle has a letter on it which is used for forming words.
HIGHER 'N HIGHER "N OOPS (Novelty) A large number of small cylinders are strung on a string (which is just to keep them from flying all over the place). Object is to pile as many of them as possible one on top of the other.

[Small diagram of two cylinders connected by a string.]

A disc connected by rubber bands to a base keeps the pile under tension once a certain height is reached. The cylinders have numbers on them and, I presume, a player can stop at any point and score the sum of the cylinders in place. (I think Felicia kept this.)
CLAIMERS FOR JIGSAW PUZZLES (Novelty) Small plastic disc in various colors to be used to make any jigsaw puzzle competative. When a player places a pc. that is tied back to a corner already in place he puts his "claimer" on it. (What's to keep a player from hoarding pcs.?)
ANGLE TANGLE (Novelty) Same as above, but without the letters. Played the same as JACK STRAWS.
BIG DEAL STORIES (Novelty) Cards with words on them, different parts of speech having different colors. A number of cards are turned face up and players try to get the longest meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
THE SIX POINT SUPPORT PLAN (Puzzle). A flat triangular pc. has six short legs, positioned as shown, and a big hole in the center.

[Diagram of a triangle with a large hole in the center and indications of where six legs might be attached. Stacks of wooden discs are depicted nearby with heights ranging from 1 to 5 tall.]

There are a considerable number of wooden discs of different heights, but the larger being in multiples of the smallest. Each height is a different color. Object is to pile all of the discs into 6 piles so that the triangular pc. sits solidly on all 6 of them, in some kind of a tilted position. (Felicia kept this.)
GREETING CARD PUZZLE (Puzzle). A message is written on a piece of vinyl and then broken into pcs. and replaced on a vinyl base in a scrambled position. (This is a greeting card item and Hallmark doesn't pay royalties on these.)
(cont. on 4/29)