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24 Tuesday - July 1973
Pioneer's Day (Utah) - 205th Day - 160 Days to Come

Rcd. [received] the PLAYTHINGS Directory Issue. 3M not in at all.

BB typed the rules for 3D BOXES. To Boston Road for repros. [reproductions] Put packing material in the box to try and hold everything in place. Used the plastic with the air hemispheres.

At a bazaar in Flushing bought a number of plastic "jewels" of different sizes and coloration, for possible game equipt. [equipment]
On Boston Road bought a handbag for $2.95 with close to 800 plastic hemispheres glued on it. They are white, yellow, red, green and blue. It was a little of a task cutting them off.

Rcd. a call from Paul Eisland of "Synthetic Plastic Novelties." The 36 boxes of 7/8 chips were there. Told him I'd pick them up Tomorrow.
Called Mike Alber to see if it would be O.K. if I picked up BILLIONAIRE, etc. next week. No problem.

Call from Claude. Wald called him while he was out and then was out when he, Claude, called back. He asked if I had heard from Wald. No.
Discussed trip to Phila Friday.

(cont. from 7/25) [7/25]

wards around a corner and Phil suggested putting a curve at the corners.

[drawing of 4 rows of curved spaces that form a "corner" of a game board]

I sketched it and it will be necessary to do it similar to sketch. Nick suggested putting hard numbers towards the inside.
To add some skill to the game we tried giving each player a set of numbers from 1 to 6. After throwing the dice the player could switch one or more of the dice to another number, crossing out the number turned to. It just slowed up the game. I said that the game has to be just one of luck, and fast moving in general. I suggested an idea to avoid a player being stuck without being able to move. After throwing the dice the player can ignore the throw and instead move to any two adjacent spaces. Didn't try it out.
Called Jim Dunnigan and complained about my column being dropped from #39. He was not particularly sympathetic but when I offered to quit the column he said that although it was vying with "Pass in Review" (which was dropped twice) for last place, 70% of the readers still want both of them kept.
When I mentioned not being paid Jim said that I got paid in games, both the Simulations and the others. Told him the Simulations were not that important to me and he said that the others still should make it worth my while. He said that the game companies should be glad to give
(cont. on 7/23)

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