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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 Wad-
dingtons 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 Stationary 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. 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. took over Lowe. They have a 3-year contract
but doubt whether M.B. 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 the 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.

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