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8 SUNDAY - APRIL 1973
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT - 98TH DAY - 257 DAYS TO COME

Bought the TIMES article on games was entitled "Your move, Kissinger."
Mentioned MONOPOLY, CHUTZPAH, MOVIE MOGULS, MASTERPIECE,
DEALER'S CHOICE, EXECUTIVE DECISION, MEET THE PRESIDENTS, SUMMIT,
THE NEXT PRESIDENT, WHO CAN BEAT NIXON?, MR. PRESIDENT, DIPLOMACY,
THINKING MAN'S FOOTBALL, SCRABBLE, THE GOD FATHER GAME, ECOLOGY,
SMOG, LITTERBUG, WOMEN'S LIB?, CHESS, BACKGAMMON, LABYRINTH,
POINT OF LAW, SLEUTH, MONAD, ECCENTRIC.

Was looking at FOREIGN INTRIGUE, PUSHOVER, and FREE FORM to bring
to Felicia tomorrow. Realized that I hadn't written the rules for
PUSHOVER. Also the box for FOREIGN INTRIGUE needs considerable fixing.
Fixed the loose pieces on the FREE FORM board.

Played WHAT'S IT WORTH TO YOU?, the sitdown version with the
Karlans. They liked it a lot. We played 4 hands. Sid made a sequence
of 9 in one, and 10 in two others.
Played FREE FORM and they liked it, but not as much.

(cont. from 4/9) [4/9]
than cards, such as letters, numbers, etc.)
- SMILE AT YOUR HANG-UPS a ring toss game. A cute gimmik
but nothing new as a game. (Felicia didn't take it.)
- TARGET TENNIS An upstanding frame has rods set horizon-
tally at equal intervals, 5 of them. On all except the
bottom one four ribbons are placed. They are long enough
to lap the lower rod and have a slit so that they can
be placed half on one side and half on the other. Each
player has a simple but clever, "flipper" for flipping
a ping-pong ball which can hit one or two ribbons pushing
them to the far side of the rod. Each player has 20
shots in turn, from opposite sides of the frame. At
the end a player scores 1 point for each ribbon he has
pushed thru, plus a bonus for a vertical or diagonal line
of 4. (Felicia and I liked it, but not the name. Felicia
suggested FLAG THE TARGET.
-PEG-OPTOMY - A board with pegs in a partial square
array - that is they are equally spaced but not each square
has a peg. Cardboard pcs. have holes in them so that they
can only fit in one position on the board. The game (I
am pretty sure) is just a matter of dividing the card-
board pcs. between the players and racing to see
who can find the location of his pcs. and place them
of the board first. (We told Helen of the resemblance
to FITTING & PROPER and that is coming out, so Felicia
can't take Brad's game.)
Helen had a copy of AGOG ($2.25 from Met. Book Store) which
she asked me to sign. Did.
(cont. on 4/7)