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1 SUNDAY - OCTOBER 1972
<br>EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY - 275TH DAY - 91 DAYS TO COME


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The name <u>Jim Bynum</u> I saw at <u>Martin</u>'s yesterday
sounded familiar to me. Checked, and had sent me
a game <u>THE NINE CHECKER GAME</u>.
BB got 15 more copies of <u>NO WAY</u> at Boston Road ^yesterday, this
time with the numbers written in. I played with it and
decided to allow a circle to be visited twice and have only
5 forbidden pairs. This way I am pretty sure that any setup
can be solved. The less revisited circles the better the solution.
Marylin's Eliot solved one, but couldn't do a second.
<u>Marylin</u> picked up a book <u>ELECTRONIC GAMES</u> at a library sale.
(It cost her 10¢.)
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<u>Martin</u>said that any cube from <u>MacMahon</u>'s set could
by replicated by using the proper 8 others, and also interior <s>side</s> face
joints match. By calling for the matching, Martin said, the
problem becomes much easier.
<u>T.H. O'Beirne</> had a column in <u>THE NEW SCIENTIST</u> in 1961 and 1962.
The best of it went into his book, <u>PUZZLES AND PARADOXES</u>. Martin
suggested him as a possible <u>G & P</u> columnist.
<u>Conway</u> spent hours trying to prove <u>NINE OF SWORDS</u> unique.
Conway sent Martin a cube <u>PUZZLE</u> which is very tricky.
It can't be solved unless the small pcs. [pieces] are placed first -
being propped up. Martin suggested Tom Atwater trying to
sell it. The pcs., which are to be formed into a 5 x 5 x 5 cube