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Title
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1972_Sackson_174_June 02.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1972
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Type
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image
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Format
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.jpg
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Source
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Box 1, Object 10, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1972
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
2 FRIDAY - JUNE 1972
154TH DAY - 212 DAYS TO COME
Got letter, etc. ready and sent PAIR OFF to Bob Johnson.
Working on game diary backlog.
(cont. from 6/3) [7/24]
ity of my buying some of the 101 copies of AGOG that
were returned. She'll check and call me.
Fabio was in conference with an author but he came out
for about 5 minutes to talk. He is still interested in
my doing another book. I told him that I'd probably be
caught up enough in the fall to get together to talk about it.
Earlier in day stopped at Oxhandler's to tell his cousin,
Lester, about the possibility of TRIPPPLES being advertised
in the "Campus Scene". Didn't have the address so he'll
call me at home tomorrow. Wff 'N Proof is testing his service
in one college.
Rcd. a letter from Phil Cohen. Mentioned BUGS AND LOOOPS,
PARITY, GAMES & PUZZLES, PROXIMITY CHESS, LOA, AGOG,
CHESS.
Rcd. the card game - ELECTION. The play is very much
borrowed from VENTURE.
Played or rather watched the 4 Horn's play
FAIRY TALE GAME. They liked it. It ran about 1/2 hour.
[Started 7/24] [arrows pointing up and down to previous and next paragraphs.]
At night tried to come up with ONE AT A TIME BY THE MILLIONS
for WOMAN'S DAY. No success.
While downtown went to Alexander's and bought a copy of
Samsonite's edition of AMOEBA (for $1.99).
Looked at SCARNE DICE. See 7/23/69 and the following are
additions and revisions (but still not complete by any means).
When playing for chips a throw of 5 of a kind - including
"dead" - wins the pot (which ordinarily goes to the high
score at the end of 7 frames). When playing without
chips it scores 100 points. With 4 of a kind the 40 points are
won if the dice are number, 4 "dead" scores 25 points.
None of the other combinations allow the use of "dead".
The point score is the sum of the numbers in a live throw.
I believe that a player may rethrown all or part of a live throw
to try for more points, but risks getting a "dead".
A variation scores for multiples of 5 only. Players in turn
throw five dice, then can throw up to 4 [illegible crossed out] live dice,
then up to 3 live dice etc. When all live dice add up to a
multiple of 5, score 1 point for each 5. 15 points wins.
