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10/3
9/25
2 MONDAY - OCTOBER 1972
276TH DAY - 90 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] a released from Pantheon Books for the British and com- mercial rights to AGOG. Also a nice note from Fabio Coen. Rcd. a letter from Earl Doherty. Asked about the ALBION (altho [although] he didn't know the name) review of CAMPAIGN. Men- tions my review of SPECULATE and 4000 A.D. Asked about CHESSWORD. Rcd. an ad from "Simulations Design Corp." for their maga- zine CONFLICT ($7.98 per year) and their game DUNKERQUE 1940 ($7.98). (Filed in 1972 Misc.)

With BB to Fred Feucht's office. Looked at his artwork WILDCAT, AIR BATTLE, SWORDSMAN (FENCES or TOURNEY, HEXOWORD, CONNECTION, and XANDO . We discussed how to change the games as follows and promised to have them by Oct. 16th. AIR BATTLE - two boards 7" x 10" folded, and two grease p[word cut off] SWORDSMAN - one board 7" and 10" folded, and two grease pencils WILDCAT - one board 7" x 10", with holes and pegs. He'll show these to Marshall Lucas and tell him that I have others in reserve. Among those we discussed: a business game; a word game; possibly a railroad game to use his artwork; a TIC-TAC-TOE expansion. The artwork for HEXOWORD and XANDO just showed the head of a man and of a woman with some marks for the game superimposed.

Phil Orbanes called. Made date for Phil, Joel Gaines, and sibly Jed to come here 10/9 at 10 and stay for lunch. Phil told me about his new p & p game, TRACT. There are 5 arrays of different shapes and sizes, but not to di[word cut off] in size. 2 (I beleive) play, and take turns placing ma[word cut off] in an array of their choice, and in a straight line. St[word cut off] with one mark each, then two marks each, thru five marks each. Then go back to one mark, etc. Score for getting [word cut off] marks in an array. Also certain spaces in the arrays [word cut off] a bonus. In CROSSFIRE he intended making the scoring values hi[word cut off] as the spaces moved away from the center. Actually probably should be the opposite so as to make an incent[word cut off] for the defensive player to block. He thinks I am ri[word cut off] He has gone to an 11 x 11 field. He is experimenting puttin gin some spaces that are "free" to both players placed so that they favor the 2nd player. I asked about the Post project and he will call Herb Hoch- stetter. He has three games:- GOLD DIGGERS, ADVANCE, and STEPPING STONES. I have TAKE-A-WORD, POST-NASTE, and BONUS I said I'd have SOLITAIRE DICE and NO WAY ready by 10/9.

Marilyn & Dave were being interviewed for the TV program "To tell the truth." BB and I in there with them but left when (cont. on 10/3)