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20 SUNDAY - MAY 1973
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - 140TH DAY - 225 DAYS TO COME

Call from Earl Doherty that he & Les Martindale of Waddingtons would come tonight and Alfons would not be able to make it probably.

Call from Wald. He made up a 2-hand BRIDGE game and would like to try it with me. The gimmick is that after the bidding and before the play begins each player puts out all his aces and trumps. Incidentally each player is dealt 13 cards from a deck of 52. The other 26 are not used.

Call from Felicia. At the Stationery Show she saw a booth with Andrews Games. The fellow there wanted to give me copies of his games and wanted my opinion. Felicia said to give him an honest opinion when I see him. She said I would. I rcd. [received] MAD-CAPS from him last year and never acknowledged getting them.
She saw Kathy Brooks and liked her. Kathy said that SLEUTH was doing very well.
They are only looking now for 1975, except one strategy game for the Bookshelf line. (I thought of SPECTRUM.) Al's games TRY-ANGLES and QUADRUME are being returned. She asked me to tell Earl Doherty & Les Martindale that she had other things to show them. They came as I was talking to her.

Earl & Les here for supper. They looked at my collection. Les was interest in an old game ROBIN HOOD since they are working on a game on the subject.
Showed them:- SKYSCRAPERS & SIX BEADS- liked but too hard to manufacture. HABITAT, GROOVE, and HOLEY TERROR (II) bring to show Alfons. Earl particularly liked the latter. [illegible strikeout] PAYOFF - liked the basic idea but wanted it tied to something more definite. TAKE-A-WORD (which I showed them at the last minute) - both liked it but Les was the one who wants to test it out. Waddingtons signed with E.S. Lowe to do some of their games in England just before M.B. [Milton Bradley] took over Lowe. They have a 3-year contract but doubt whether M.B. [Milton Bradley] will renew it. So they want to build up alternatives. I told Les I'd make a model and bring it to him but he said the rules and letter distribution would be plenty. He has people sitting around. (I prepared a set of letters using the ADD-A-LETTER tiles and making some new ones just before they came.
I brought up the question of royalties. Waddingtons has a fixed policy of 2 1/2% of wholesale. Earl said that Alfons had also adopted that rate, but that I could talk to him about it.
In looking around the show they saw a game ORGASM which uses erected penises for the tokens.
Gave Earl my review of THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME. I asked Earl about the game CHILKAT in his GAMEWAYS catalogue. It is a MANCALA type. He guessed that that would be the one I didn't know.