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29 FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS - 273RD DAY - 93 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] the 1973 Childcraft catalog. Among other things listed:- PATTERN PENDING, SENTENCE CUBE GAME, ON SETS, KLIK, REMEMBER, REMEMBER, FIZZOG, TUF, KALAH, CHECKLINE, CONNECT, ARCHIE BALL, NEW TOWN, TAU, BLACK AND BLUE, PERFECTION, THINK-A-MAJIG, NINE OF SWORDS, SNAPSHOT MEMORY, OOPS, FRENETICS, GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME, MARIENBAD, STRATO TAC-TICS. (Discarded part and filed rest in 1972 Misc.)

Rcd. an invite to a cocktail party at "The Four Seasons" to introduce THE HOWARD HUGHES GAME. RSVP and called to say I'd come.

Called Fred Feucht. Made date to come to his office Monday to look at his art work on XANDO, etc. so that I can work up games to go with it.
When I mentioned Phil and I sharing our royalties from Hoi Polloi with him, he said it certainly wasn't our responsibility to see that he got his money back.

Called Marvin Katz, thinking I had met him at the cocktail party for THE GODFATHER GAME. It was the one for "Cadeaux." He is quite busy and will contact me in a few weeks about getting together to return YESTERDAY'S GAMES, etc.

Worked out a layout of circles for NO WAY and had five ten copies made at Boston Post Road. In evening worked out the arrange- ment of numbers. BB tried it.

Claude called he told me about a game advertised in NEW YORK magazine, the one with contest #122 (July 24th). It is called SHACKLES - Regis Games, 91-03A 172nd St., Jamaica, N.Y. 11432. It is advertised as a game strategy, tactics, & deception in a boardgame $2.50.

(cont. from 9/30)[9/30]

hibited by SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN from doing any other column. Also, he doesn't care to do any more of this type of writing.

I suggested Angela Dunn, of PROBLEMATICAL RECREATIONS, but Martin said she is not a creator, just an editor. Then I sug- gested David Silverman of YOUR MOVE. Martin said that he con- tributed a lot of Dunn's material. Graeme said that his puzzle editor is in correspondence with Silverman.

Eric Cross (from Ireland) had a puzzle, 8 BLOCKS TO MADNESS, now on the market and I saw an article in a Math. Mag [magazine]. The 8 cubes from MacMahon's set of 30 are shown. Object is to form a 2 x 2 x 2 cube with each face a different single color. [drawing of 8 "cubes" with sides depicted in 2D diagrams, each side has an initial representing a color i.e. R for red]. (cont. on 10/1)