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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. 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. 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 thathis wife, who he says is a better
player than he is, is certainly welcome.

Rcd. 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.
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)

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