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Created page with "24 Tuesday - July 1973 <br>Pioneer's Day (Utah) - 205th Day - 160 Days to Come ---- Rcd. [received] the <u>PLAYTHINGS</u> Directory Issue. 3M not in at all. BB typed the rules for <u>3D BOXES</u>. 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 gam..."
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hemispheres glued on it. They are white, yellow, red, green and blue. | hemispheres glued on it. They are white, yellow, red, green and blue. | ||
It was a little of a task cutting them off. | 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. | |||
<br>Called <u>Mike Alber</u> to see if it would be O.K. if I picked up | |||
<u>BILLIONAIRE</u>, etc. next week. No problem. | |||
Call from <u>Claude</u>. <u>Wald</u> called him while he was out and then was out | |||
when he, Claude, called back. He asked if I had heard from | |||
Wald. No. | |||
<br>Discussed trip to Phila Friday. | |||
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(cont. from 7/25) [7/25] | |||
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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. | |||
<br>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. | |||
<br>Called <u>Jim Dunnigan</u> 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. | |||
<br>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 | |||
<br>(cont. on 7/23) |