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23 Thursday November 1972 Thanksgiving Day 328th Day 38 Days to come

With Phill Laurence looked in Harrod's. Nothing new in games.
In evening copied the "Risk" cards from BIG BOSS.

(cont. from 11/24) [11/24]

a count of 5. Place all pcs. in this manner. Then move any pc. a count of 5 as a turn (on pc. in a turn - that is). A pc. cannot pass thru another pc., friendly or enemy. A pc. can land on an enemy pc. (how about a friendly?). [illegible strikeout] The bottom one is immobilized (or possibly both, which might make a more interesting game; however I think it is only the bottom). However, if either player moves a piece onto a pile of tow the enemy pc. is captured and is out of the game. A player wins by occupying the opponent's corner. If the opponent can immediately cover this pc. the game continues until either the player bring s a second pc. winning the game or the opponent brings a second pc. capturing the original pc. - and the game of course continues. If an enemy pc is not in a player's corner, he cannot leave a pc. in it for more than 3 turns in a row. (Graeme promised to send me a copy of the rules.)
Looked at a Spear's game TREK (which Graeme said was a South African term). It had some interesting play principles and I started copying the rules. They were rather long and Graeme promised to send me a copy of them WIth BB's hep copied a description of the material and the cards.
Looked at DAFT DRAUGHTS again. Told Graeme that I hadn't been able to find it in a store. He thinks that it may have been withdrawn. He lost the rules from the set he has and asked Parker for another some 3 months ago, and still hasn't had an answer. When he sees them he will ask them to send me a copy of the rules and the paper part of the board (before it is mounted on the cardboard).
The game CRACK came up. He said that he had given the Peter Pan people some suggestions on the rules, without compensation of [or] even a thank you. They didn't take all of his suggestions.
I asked about my ACQUIRE article. He thought that perhaps it should be more personal and not as descriptive of the game itself. But he'll show it to the editorial board. If they want further info on me he'll send me a list of questions and will have someone write up the answers.
Discussed my column. He said that this, different from a feature article, should cover what I want to. Most probably original games with no special equipment, and a discussion of trends in games in the U.S. Possible name - "The American Scene." He asked if I know people who could cover other countries. I mentioned Pierre Benloquin (who is a subscriber) and Lech Pijauowski. Discussed them and arranged that I would broach
(con. on 11/21)