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5 TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972
249TH DAY - 117 DAYS TO COME

Arthur called. He wasn't able to get down town because of a slight concussion due to his fall and Wald has a bad sunburn. Possibly the meeting with Wexler will be in Arthur's house tomorrow. 2nd call from Arthur. Wald will make it down tomorrow so the meeting will be at B & B. Arthur asked me to call Claude and let him know. Did.

Felicia called to ask for Mike Alber's address. She spoke to him on the phone and he is sending games for Rappaport's an- niversary. She wants to confirm their talk. SKYSCRAPERS is back from 3M. I suggested sending it to House of Games. We started talking about House of Games, U.S. Game Systems, and Waddingtons and didn't come to any conclusions.

Call from Phil Orbanes. Herb Hochstetter wants to make next this Friday at 9 a.m. to discuss games for Post. O.K. Spoke to Red [illegible word crossed out] They rcd. [received] picture for TRIPPPLES. I didn't get answer from Pacific.

Called Bill Eckhart. Told him about VIMGO. Will go there Friday at 11 to show it to him. He may have some slides for JUNGLE RACE ready to show me then.

Martin Gardner called. He'll come here Thursday about 2:30 to pick up the IMPUZZABLES and to look at ARROW LIFE.

Gary Sherbell called. Wanted to talk about his revisions in TORTS - THE GAME OF LAWSUITS but I told him I was just too busy to talk now. He'll call me next weekend.

Wrote the rules for UP THE ORGANIZATION and WAR AND PEACE. BB typed them til about 2:00 A.M. while I finished up miscellaneous equipment and put the equipment in boxes.

(cont. from 9/6)[9/6]

sure if the board and distribution of the cards is exactly the same.) There is a special "starting" square for each of the 10 characters. On each players first turn he places a character in one of these spaces. After this he plays next to card already down. If not able to, he simply loses his turn. Certain spaces have a ? on them. When a player places a card on one of these he is permitted to ask any other player for a specific card. The other player passes him on face down. Even if he doesn't have one of the requested type, he passes any other he wishes. The asking player looks at it and returns it. Object is to determine the card put aside at the beginning. A scoring system with 1 point for "killing" a character - playing the (cont. on 9/4)