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10/21
10/12
2 THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 1972
ALL SOULS' DAY - 307TH DAY - 59 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] card from Martin Gardner with answer to Don Turnbull's question. Card from Mike Abrams about BLOCK 'N SCORE. It may be published in The Netherlands.

Herb Hochstetter called. He'll try to set up a date with Post cereals and I'll join him. I'll call him tomorrow if any day is not good for me. Call from Phil Orbanes. He has finalized the shape of the REALM pcs. [pieces] Sorcerer - Tall round. Thrall - Medium and triangular (which can be used to specify movement in 3 directions. Tower - Short and square. (Actually Phil called before Herb.) [drawing of a triangle inside a square with arrows point up, left, and right] Felicia called. She is busy on 11/13 and the date to look at FIRE ISLAND LINGO us changed to 11/14 at 11:30. We discussed the 3M royalty.

Wrote most of the rules for THE GO-ROUND GAME. BB typed THE ADD-A-LETTER GAME and SUPER-TAC-TOE.

To Arthur's for supper with Wald and Claude too. Played a word GAME of the Amberstones. The deck with the alphabet and the 10 digits is layed [laid] out. One player at a time takes the duplicate (green) deck and picks out a five letter word - with no duplicate letters since there is only one of each in the green deck. Expressions with numbers can also be used - but the first number muse be turned up (in addition to the usual turned up card (?). If any player doesn't know the word, or expression, the player receives no score. [illegible word crossed out]

After the word is layed [laid] out face down the first of the other players turns over any one of the cards he wishes. Then he guesses a letter. If right, it is turned up and the player guesses another letter. When a player gets guesses wrong that letter is turned down in the original layout and the next player guesses. One of the guessers may turn up another card, but this gives the word former 5 points. When the word is completely uncovered, the former of the word scores 1 point for each consonant turned face down, 2 points for each vowel (Y is considered a consonant for scoring), and 5 points if another card was turned. Play in rounds. After 5-card round, play a 6-card round, etc. If a phrase is used, gabs must be left.

Played SUPER-TAC-TOE with Wald. At first he insisted that the first player couldn't be stopped. Later I held him to a tie on his first, and finally beat him on his first.

Played Claude's WHITE ELEPHANTS. He had a different arrange- ment of the cards since he didn't have his original listing with him when he made a new set. It didn't seem to play quite as well, but I may just have been tired. (cont. on 10/21)