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21 WEDNESDAY * FEBRUARY 1973 313 DAYS TO COME

Downtown to Felicia's at 9. Bill Garrity postponed his visit till 12:30. Went to register at Toy Fair Press Room. Then to I went to Ideal. Met Zeke Rose coming in. He took me in and showed me some new action games. Nothing new in my type of game. He'll send me AUCTIONEER, TRAP, and DEAR ABBY.
To G.A.F. but they weren't set up yet.
To Schaper. Spoke to Harvey Shoemack, the P.R. [public relations] man. He showed me 'OPTILE. Players in turn throw 2 dice and cover their board with tiles of different shapes which are identified by number, one for each die. The value is the number. Spaces with a "D" double the tile. A "T" triple the tile. When a player gets a double he draws a card which gives different kinds of privileges. Cards can [be] kept for future use. As soon as 1 player fills his card the game is over. Each player scores for his tiles, and those not finished lose 1 point for each unfilled space. (This was made up by 2 housewifes.)
He introduced me to Phil Stern, 200 E. 27TH (683-3562) who is the inventor of MONEY CARD (which I previously listed as AMERICAN EXPRESS MONEY CARD GAME). It was a simple race-type game with the object of visiting 8 cities. INTERPLAY is brought about by cards that tell you to visit another player or bring him to visit you. Also there is "bumping."
Got a catalog, glossies, price list. Shoemack will send review copies.
Back to Felicia. While waiting for Dick Harris I took down the equipment layout for PUSHOVER which I hadn't noted before (I think).

[Diagram of a 5 x 5 square board. It has numbers in 21 of the squares with 4 entirely blacked out (B) as follows: 1st row 15, 12, 10, 9, -7; 2nd row 8, B, 8, B, 5; 3rd row -12, 7, 6, 5, 4; 4th row -8, B, 4, B, 3; 5th row -5, -2, -4, 1, 2. The center squares and the upper right and lower left corners are shaded orange. The left edge and the right edge are shaded blue. The bottom edge and the right edge are shaded green.]

Dick Harris in. I asked if he had rcd. [received] the error I found in SUMMIT. Yes, but SUMMIT is being dropped.
Felicia showed him : -
GAME IN HAND - too much like.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BLOCKS - too subjective. (The scoring is one point to the player who guesses the theme - out of three - the builder used. The builder gets one point for each who guessed right.)
PUSHOVER - No because of Bailey's MOSAICS, which Harris had seen. We told Dick Harris about the coincidence.
HABITAT - Just another "cube" puzzle.
UPSTAGE - Not fun. Played a full game.
AVARICE & TRIAD - Last year Dick told Felicia to hold them for Marshall Lewis to look at. Since Lucas never came in, she should show it elsewhere.
CLUE-WORDS - At first it wasn't competitive enough. They thought of the possibility of making it a cooperative game between two players, similar to PASSWORD. He wants Felicia to send it. (Or maybe he took it.)
PDQ - This came up in the conversation. A word is chosen and scrambled. The contestant tries to guess the word. Can pick a letter which Another call from Warren is placed in its proper position, but lose points for each letter put in position. (M.B. [Milton Bradley] game from TV game.)
THE BRAIN GAME - looks like a good game, but too adult for them.
QUICKSAND - Not as good as CLUE-WORDS.
FREE FORM - Too abstract. Played and it was over fast.
FOREIGN INTRIGUE - Don't remember his rejection comment.
(cont. on 2/19)