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31 Tuesday - July 1973
212 day - 153 days to come

Rcd. [received] another letter from Kees Vanes (see 7/21 and 7/23) with another children's puzzle - BIRD, FISH AND FLOWERS.
Rcd. THE GAMESLETTER #59. Mentions DESERT FOX, APBA INNINGS (Magazine), LIFELINE (Magazine), SIMULATION GAMING NEWS, [illegible crossed out] DUNKIRK, ALBION, THE GENERAL, BELLICUS 10 (Mag.), BLACK HOLE DIPLOMACY, HOOSIER ARCHIVES (Mag.).
Rcd. TOYS (July). Has ad for JAMES BOND 007 TAROT GAME, THE WATERGATE SCANDAL GAME in "New."

Thought of a NIM type game for the p&p series. Phil's name - END OF THE LINE is a perfect name. Layed out a sheet with three fields of different sizes.

Remembered a GAME I had been fooling with a week or so ago. 4 dice are thrown and the object is to write the 4 numbers in any position and with any operational or other symbols between. Object to get results 1, 2, 3, etc. Note: dice can be placed next to each other to form a number, such as [drawing of two dice showing 2 and 1] for 21, but a single die can't be put to represent a tens position, such as [drawing of a die showing 2 with a blank space next to it]. It can also be played with more than 4 dice.

Playing around with the PUZZLE idea I had yesterday. Made two layouts, both of which don't have any duplicate pcs. [pieces]

[drawing of two 5 by 5 grids with some of the squares of each blank and some with Xs in the square]

The X's represent projections on one level and the blanks are projections on the other level.
I limited the pieces to 10 because of the talk with Phil Orbanes (noted later.)
Thinking of other ways to present SPACE STATIONS, or rather the 3-high game Phil requested. Philes as shown should do it, [drawing of a circle with a square inside, with a triangle inside of the square] especially if a red and blue pencil are provided. Decided to make the field 3x4x3 high and score 1 point for each line of 3 and 2 points for each line of 4. The basic game will not allow diagonals in a vertical direction, but optional rules will. It is possible for the 2nd player to play symmetrically, ensuring a draw. A tie could be considered a loss for the 2nd player, as in FOCUS. Another possible rule. Have the first player take one space. Then in turn each take two spaces until the first player gets the last space.

Call from Phil Orbanes. He'd like me to have my games ready to show to Carl this Friday and will send Nick to pick them up if I wish. He'll check tomorrow if he can set up the date with Carl and call me tomorrow.
I asked about the timing on the PUZZLEs for Hoi Polloi. The sooner the better since Bob & Manny will be knocking off things if they don't get things from us. Carl would like to have us
(cont. on 7/22)

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