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11/13
14 Tuesday November 1972
319th Day - 47 Days to come

Brought revised BOOK WORLD column to Eve Auchincloss. She wasn't in, so I just left it.
To Simulations. Spoke to Jim Dunnigan. He asked me about the sales of my games with 3M. He estimates that Simulations does between '4 and '5 the volume of 3M. He gave me MOVES #5. Also "Book IV which contains reprints of S&T #16, 17 and 18.
Al Nofi had a copy of BATTLE OF ATLANTA for me but I told him I already had one (at home checked to confirm this). He also gave me an ad booklet for 3M games in Germany. Includes the following: - TWIXT, ACQUIRE, BREAKTHRU, BAZAAR, FACTS IN FIVE, TRYCE, VENTURE, MONAD, OCTRIX, REGATTA, HOCKEY, THINKING MAN'S GOLF, and WIN, PLACE & SHOW (Put with 3M material.)
Dale had message from BB - to call Ken Morgan ([phone number omitted for privacy]), and Felicia probably wouldn't be at her office at 2 today.
Called Ken Morgan. His lawyer's son sent him an S.E.C notice about R.G.I.'s stock being suspended from sale for several months. Not [now?] is back on sale, but brokers are warned about it. Ken sent a copy to me. Ken wrote to Urban Systems telling them that R.G.I. was in trouble and that he could get MOVIE MOGULS back. Then he learned that Urban Systems was one of the firms R.G.I. (Bob Gellman that is) was considering merger with.

To Phil Orbanes. (During meeting with him called Felicia and learned from her answering service that she wouldn't be in.) "Gamut of Games" treated me to a sandwich and coffee.
The game of Joel's originally SPELLBOUND, then KALEIDOSCOPE, is now being called MONTAGE. Phil told me a little about it. There is a quarille board. To start black spaces are but on crossword fashion, and a number of colored squares are put on according to some specific setup. Each color can be used for a series of letters - (like blue could be A, B, C, D, or E; green could be F, G,H, I, or J ; etc.). Players form words using the colored squares and a color can be changed to any of its letters in different turns (Very rough idea.)
Phil gave me a set of rules for REALM that he wrote up in a hurry, It has the feature game and 4 mini-games. It doesn't include the CHAIN REACTION variation and the one based on HNEFATAFL, which Phil will keep for use as individual games.
He also gave me a set of playing pcs. so that I can work on it at home.
We played a game of the feature version, which I won, and it played quite well - tho I thought a little too short.
Took a sheat with a set of rules for NUMBER PLEASE! which can be played using the MY WORD! equipment. Put it with my MY WORD! set.
Made repros of the rules, which also contain a
(cont. on 11/13)