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10 TUESDAY- OCTOBER 1972
<br>284TH DAY - 82 DAYS TO COME


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Rcd. [received] the letter from <u>Bill Eckhart</u>. He has to have a simplification of
the rules for <u>JUNGLE RACE</u> by the end of the week. He can
be reached in Portland.
BB Worked on it in the evening and decided that having animal
markers made it very confusing. Also the starting distribution
of the markers was an unneccessary [unnecessary] complication<s>s</s> and a few other
things.
Called <u>Marvin Channing</u>. Still no answer from advertising director.
If I don't hear from Marvin about <u>ONE AT A TIME BY THE MILLIONS</u> in
about two weeks, I'm to call him.
Deposited the Hasbro check in Knickerbocker.
Call from <u>Phil Orbanes</u>. Asked if I knew of a game named <u>KALEIDOSCOPE</u>.
They want to use it for <u>Joel Gaines</u>' new game, in place of <u>SPELLBOUND</u>.
I hadn't heard of one, and checked <u>TOYS</u> and <u>PLAYTHINGS</u> - also negative. <br>
Talked some more about his job at "Gamut of Game." He got a good
contract and the office is very pleasant to work at. He meets
<u>Waldemir Von Zedtwitz</u> regularly and gets along very well with
him. <u>Joel Gaines</u> is so well taken care of by Von Zedtwitz that he
can travel wherever and whenever he wants. I said that once the
company needs me I might be <s>the</s> in the mood to give up my free
lance status for a good job. Phil said that would be great. <br>
Phil mentioned that to make <u>CROSSFIRE</u> look different from <u>HEX</u>
he was thinking of using circles connected with "bridges." I
suggested that, instead of making some spaces "free" to both
players as he wanted to do to equalize the chances between
first and second play, some "bridges" be left out to acheive [achieve] the same
thing. He'll work on it.
At F.A.O. bought a game <u>FUTURES</u>. Not too great, but I got it for
$3 because it was the only one they had and the box was beat up.
Also got a catalog. Among other things, contained <u>MARK THREE</u>,
<u>SMARTY</u>, <u>CHUTZPAH</u>, <u>REX</u>, <u>TORPEDO ATTACK</u>, <u> TRIPLE YAHTZEE</u>, <u>AIRPORT</u>,
<u>PERQUACKEY</u>, <u>SCORE FOUR</u>, <u>4000 A.D</u>. (pages filed in '72 misc.)
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Played two games of <u>ADD-A-LETTER</u> (BB won first, Anne 2nd).
First was played without players getting letters to
start, 2nd. with. They thought it was good for the
purpose, but not profound.
Later thought of two more variations. 1) The 5 letters per
person are all turned up together and players take turns pick-
ing one. 2) Letters already down in a word can be rearranged
with the new letter(s) being placed.
Rcd. [received] two copies of the magazine <u>''LIFESTYLE''</u>. Nothing on games.