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1 FRIDAY - DECEMBER 1972

HANUKKAH, FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS - 336TH DAY- 30 DAYS TO COME

Came up with an arrangement of going back arrows for JUNGLE RACE. Then made a board. Put on the arrows with self stick.

Claude called. Martin's had remnent [remnant] rolls of contact (or rather clopay) for 15¢ a yard. Told him to bring me a glossy black and a wood grain green.

Claude [^and Anne] here for supper. Brought me a 15 yard roll of black and a 14 yard roll of green (or so they were marked) as well as the book THE BOMB AND THE COMPUTER. Wouldn't take money, but I gave him G & P no. 6, 7, and 8 and three copies of AGOG.

Played a new version of MANIPULATION. He had a completely new set of values- "Inside Information Chart" - and he gave me one. (He will probably change the $1,300 listings to $1,500, getting rid of the $100 bills.)

Each player is given 1 share of each stock and $10,000 at the start. The bank has $200,000 from which the initial money is given to each player. When that money is gone the bank gets a reserve from which the bank's obli- gations are met. There are now 4 more rounds (Phase II thru [through] Phase V) and cards list changes for each - such as compulsory auctioning of the right to "manipulate" goes [ant?] at one point and at another point a player can start choosing between 1 or 2 dice when "manipulating." [illegible word crossed out] The rule for buying stock in a turn was as follows: a player could first buy