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1 THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 1973
32ND DAY - 333 DAYS TO COME

Finished the DISPERSAL board and played some games with BB.

Rcd. [received] a call from {James Trager
{[Personal address and phone number omitted for privacy.]
He has a patent on a card device that teaches grammar. He is interested in making a series of adult games (later saw BAWDY BESS) using the system. He contacted Martin Gardner who gave him my number. He wants to share royalties if I can work up the games. Or there is a possibility that he may manufacture himself.

Rcd. [received] a call from {Mel Bernstein
{[Personal address and phone number omitted for privacy.] 


He has a game, SARACEN which is a simple war game. Al Nofi

called me about it (last Friday, I think) and said it was good. Mel would like to show it to me to see if my agent would be interested in seeing it. He'll come here on 1/7. Later sent him a postcard saying that his wife, who he says is a better player than he is, is certainly welcome.

Rcd. [received] a card from Jim Scully saying that he had just sent the TALLY game to me. He sold a game TIC-TAC-TEA to CRUSADER Magazine for $5.00.

Call from Arthur. Nothing specifically about games.

(cont. from 2/10) [2/10]

banker, but also helped protect George's mother from Stan Chess (who was there without a girl). They all caught on well and liked it. With 6 players there was a lot of trading, including 4 getting together to set up the 9th corp. [corporation]
There seemed to be not much incentive to roll after the cards were all out. I think to make it a little more attractive I'll give the player the card free if he gets a 7 or 11. He pays without getting the card with a 13.
George, Stan, & Al are REQUISITE freaks and keep setting up problems. George has a new rule that isn't in the rules I have. If a player thinks he has one or more unique words, he circles them. If they are all unique he scores one point for each. If even one is repeated by another player all unique scores are lost.
Incidentally, in RISK-IT a player is allowed to make a guess which is looked up in the dictionary, with no penalty for guessing wrong.
Stan Chess is still waiting to see whether the big job with the WASHINGTON POST will come thru. In the meantime he is holding up on GAME Magazine. He, I, and George discussed a possible (cont. on 1/30)