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28 THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972
272ND DAY - 94 DAYS TO COME

Went to the address given in the ad for RATED X. Met Mitchell Todd, the inventor and also the manufacturer. He says it is doing very well. Read the rules. There are two paths on the board. Players stay on the outer path until they lose all their clothes. Then they move to the inner path where they get opportunities to touch other players, etc., and also to collect "Kiss" cards, which determine the winner. The cards for females to draw are called "Crack Cards" and those for males "Dickie Cards." We agreed that the game wasn't right for me to review for either S & T or BOOK WORLD. But he said he'd give me a copy for my collection after he catches up with his orders.

He is coming out with another GAME, based on using E.S.P. to figure horse races, which he thinks I might be more able to write up. He took my card and will contact me when it is out.

To Felicia's. Graeme Levin was there. He came to Herb Roth's who wasn't there. He looked in Felicia's door and saw ACQUIRE on the wall and came in. Felicia may be able to help him get GAMES & PUZZLES in some stores, and get some advertisers, with appropriate fees for her.

Gary Sherbell there and, after Graeme left, we discussed his changes in TORTS - THE GAME OF LAWSUITS. There are a lot of changes from the description I have on 9/8/70. The board is five sided and the values run from $10,000 to $50,000. The torts spaces are circles with two torts in each. A player landing on a tort can sue another player who is on either of the torts, or can sue more than 1 player - one at a time. If another player is on the same 2 torts he can be sued in both sim- ultaneously. In the case on suit is held and cards from both torts can be used interchangably [interchangeably]. After a suit if a player has used more than 4 cards he can either replace enough cards to get to 12 (instead of the former 14) or can throw in the rest of his hand and take a new 12 cards. Also, some (or possibly all) of the corner spaces allow a player to draw 3 cards and discard any three he wishes. There are now 5 instead of 6 torts and one has more cards and more - and higher value- positions on the board. One has less cards and positions on the board and the other 3 are roughly equal, in between.

Felicia agreed to handle the game again, but we both urged him to make a good model and to write the rules carefully.

After Gary left, Felicia told me that she had been after Amer- ican Greetings. Then the mailman brought a package from them. It contained the rules for GIRL TALK, QUICKSAND, THE MONEY GAME, LOG JAM, TRIAD, ASK IT, LOTTERY, WHAT'S IT WORTH IN DOLLARS (They called it "How Much is that in Dollars?"), BALLS AND CHAINS, and WILD WOOD PILE. The letter read:- "We do not feel any of the ideas fit into our plans at this time but will appreciate it if you will keep us on your list of poten- tial customers. MacGuire and I will make it a point to stop and see you whenever we are in New York."

Felicia showed me a letter from Alfred Rosenfeld on SIJJEH, (cont. on 7/30)