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21 MONDAY - MAY 1973
VICTORIA/QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY (CANADA) - 141ST DAY - 224 DAYS TO COME

To Stationary Show.

  • Springbok. 6 puzzle-games there. FITTING & PROPER,

THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS, CUBITS, PENTOMINOES, MOEBIES (Alex Randolph),
SWEEP (Wade E. Philpott). This is the same as SOLITAIRE except
that the board is 7x7.
On the board for THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS there was no raised
portion of connecting the circles vertically and horizontally. Then spoke
to Burt Huber who was at the show. He is aware of this and it is being
changed in the die. In the illustrations in the rule there was
not enough contrast between the line being shown and the others.
He'll take care of it. In the illustration showing how to
set up the discs so that a solution is assured the numbers
are given downward (as shown below) instead of across as be-
fore. Burt said this was necessary due to some switching but
I took the following record to check it out myself.
[Drawing of 9 circles] Burt said that they are adding
THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS game to the
instructions.
In FITTING & PROPER they did not have
the "setup" sheets. Burt said that it was
quite expensive to punch the holes in a
sheet. I suggested adding some layouts
on the instructions sheet. He thought
that that could be done. (Later some-
one, can't remember who, said there was
no room for this.)
Gary ? , Burt's assistant said that the next batch would
have FOCUS, DUEL, TOTEM, and 2 or 3 others. These [illegible strikeout] will be for
next spring. The present 6 won't be shipped until fall of this year.
Met Bob Johnson for a moment. He'll set up a meeting time
with Felicia.

  • 3M. Met Kathy Brooks. She said that SLEUTH and EVADE were

the best of the Gamette line and they're doing o.k.
Showed her SPECTRUM and she liked it. They are looking for a
purely strategic game for the 1974 bookshelf line. The find
that they do best with strategy games. I'll write up the
rules and have Felicia send her the computer model. The middle
of June is o.k.
The bookshelf are going to $10.00 and the gamette to $5.00.
Took sheet with "new" games. MR. WHO? a simple deduction
game (packed in a square box). STAC-TAC-TOE:- there are five
each of pcs. in two colors. Each is a ball with a peg on
one end and a hole diametrically oposite. A board has
3 holes in a straight line. Players in turn place a pc.
in any of the three holes or on top of any other pc.
A pc. or pcs. can be moved from one stack to another. The
player whose turn it is moves a pc. of his color with any
others above it. Object is to get three in a row, horizontally,
vertically, or diagonally. BACKGAMMON, GO, CHALLENGE GOLF,
CHALLENGE FOOTBALL (these are in addition to the previous
(cont. on 5/12)