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18 FRIDAY - MAY 1973
138TH DAY - 227 DAYS TO COME

Call from Arthur. Told him what I was involved in and said that I hoped to be able to go to visit in about 2 weeks.

Rcd. [received] G&P #13. Contains article on FORMULA 1, CAR ROM, YAHTZEE, FINDERS KEEPERS, ECOLOGY, A GAMUT OF GAMES, THE COMPLETE STRATEGYST, PENTOMINOES, DODGEM (In puzzle section). Also had an ad for a book SOLO-WARGAMING, by Donald Featherstone, and another book ad for GAMES WITH PENCIL & PAPER by Eric Solomon. It lists some of the games as ELEUSIS, SPROUTS, CRYSTALS, GO MOKU, & SUBTERFUGE.
Rcd. [received] PLAYTHINGS (May). Showcase had a piece on CHECK-FOUR. Sent reader service card on 5/23.
Rcd. [received] a card saying I wasn't accepted for "What's My Line." (In Playthings saw that Ed Parker was on the program.)

Playing around with JACK POTS and decided that my idea of 5/15 and 5/17 wasn't right. Thinking then of having each player have a number of circles on his mover - from 1 to 3 - and also have circles on the board spaces. Move total of the 2, casting out 3's. Couldn't get a setup that would allow all players to reach all spaces, using 3 rows of 4 with arrows joining the spaces, as shown.

[drawing of board with arrows]

Then decided to have the players just move one space at a time. Played with BB, each using 2 movers. It played quite well. Used white chips worth 1 for first jackpot. Then red worth 2 for second and blue worth 4 for third. (originally had still another jackpot but that was much too long.) Didn't have a terminating factor and then decided to play until When the a third jackpot was hit that space was eliminated and player could move right thru. This didn't work out. Later thought of playing until all the first and second jackpots were hit and then play until a set number of third jackpots were hit.

[drawing of board with a number 4 in it]

Incidentally I made a board as shown above with each space divided as shown below.

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