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8 Sunday - July 1973
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost - 189th day - 176 days to come

Started drawing up the diagram for POWER NETWORK (see 7/4).

(cont. from 7/9) [7/9]

bers.
Thought of a game SUPERGHOSTS. Letters are filled in a long series of spaces and can be put before, between, or after the other letters, as long as there are empty spaces. A player who cannot extend the word - either because it will be finished with another letter or because he can't find a word - can pass. Afterall except 1 player have passed the remaining player can fill in as many letters as he can until he completes a word, scoring one point for each letter. If he is bluffing, but is not challenged, the remaining player still scores one point for each letter written so far. If one or more players challenge and the player has a word he scores double the and the challengers score the same amount minus - each one separately. If the player was bluffing, he loses double the number of letters down and each challenger scores the amount positive.

Tried to call Tom Atwater. No answer.

(cont. from 7/12) [7/18]

called THE WATERGATE GAME (Brunic Toy Corp.) It has a MONOPOLY-like board but seems to be simply a matter of winning or losing slips representing "electoral votes" to be the first to get enough to be elected. Each player has 3 cards which allow him 3 times during the game to challenge another player to gamble for electoral votes.
In the window of another store I saw a game WINGS. (checked at home and I have it.)

To Steve Saxe (see 7/15). Vivianne Meyers there. The GAME idea they had was to use a piece of louvre normally used over a light fixture and balls (either glass or plastic) to throw on the louvre. The piece, which they bought on Canal St. was 12" and divided into 23x23 spaces. They had a lot of 9/16 glass balls which fitted nicely into the holes, but were a little too big to stay next to each other. Probably 1/2 would be right.
I saw a lot of game possibilities. A number of balls could be thrown by each player in turn. When a certain configuration, such as 5 in a row, results, the player throwing takes it off. Another idea. Throw and 7 balls trying to duplicate a configuration that is on a card. HALMA could certainly be played, and a small GO, if enough balls can be provided.
We discussed the problem of finding 1/2" balls. I'll check
(cont. on 7/7)

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