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10/21
3 FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 1972
308TH DAY - 58 DAYS TO COME

To Boston Post Road to get repros [reproducrtions] of the TAM-BIT and TAKE FIVE contracts At John's bought WHITE HOUSE for $1.97.

Called Herb Hochstetter and finally got him to call back after I called 4 times. Told him of my eye doctor appointment Wednesday and that I have an appointment (HASBRO) Friday.

To visit George and Dorothy Bredehorn. Stan Chess and a girlfriend, Gail, there. Bought a copy of MYWORD! as a gift. We played, sans Dorothy altho [although] she voted, MULLIGAN. There are 60 different sets of 12 cardboard "tiles." These have differ- ent shapes and designed, with perhaps half a dozen different colors - one color on a set. Each player has a mat, light blue on one side - light purple on the other. Using [illegible word crossed out] spin- ers the players choose 2 sets of tiles. They can choose which side of the mat to use and then try to make as beautiful a pattern as possible using as many as desired of the two sets of tiles. It is permissible to have them overlap. When finished each player moves their mat towards the center of the table. Each player has a set of voting cards that doesn't include their own number (mats from 1 to 6 are included). Each player chooses the number he thinks the most beautiful and votes for it with his card. A peg board keeps score and 10 wins. (We played till each went first and BB won with 9 points.)

We all played CLUE WORDS. Each player gets a board as shown. [drawing of rows of squares increasing in descending order from 3 to 8 such that it resembles a stair case. The first square in each row has "10" in it, the rest of the squares have "5". Attached below the rows is a rectangle with a hash pattern, the size is about 2 squares height and 7 squares length, aligned with the 1st and 7th columns] There is a pile of single letters and double letter combinations - of length to cover two boxes. Each player takes 6 of each and then arranges them on his board so that they indicate words. The object is to get the opponents to guess as many as possible of the words.

After all the players have set up their boards they write in their own words on a special sheet and then as many as they can of the opponents words. Any word is permissible, even misspellings as long as their is the chance of getting the idea across.

Taking one player's board, each player in turn reads off his word, starting with the top one. Then the player reads off the word he intended. A player who guesses the intended word scores the number of points uncovered in the word. the one setting up the board scores that number of points for each player who gets the word. (For example - in the 7 letter space I put POE as the last three letters. 2 of the players, Stan & George guessed my "ALAN POE" and I scored 50 points. They each scored 25 points.)

One time BB Put in DRY as the last 3 letters in the 6 letter space. We all guessed "SUNDRY" and she had "TAWDRY" in mind. later I thought of the idea of giving the guessing players a score, but not the forming player, if half or more of them (cont. on 10/2)