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31 FRIDAY- AUGUST 1973
243RD DAY-122 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] a letter from Les Martindale of Waddington, rejecting TAKE-A-WORD.
Started thinking further about TAKE-A-WORD as a puzzle-game This board could be as shown and 30 letter discs could be used to fill the spaces.

[drawing of board game]

Each disc has two letters - of different colors, or one upper case and one lower case, one set could contain the difficult letters while the other doesn't. The game could be played using one set of letters or the other, or allowing both together. The puzzle would use the two together and the idea would be to take off as many discs as possible.

POST had an article on various odd-ball courses given by "the New School" including on [illegible strikeout] "Board Games of the World." (Filed in '73 misc. [1973 miscellaneous])

To [illegible strikeout] simulations. Ran off 61 sheets of the "Hex" graph paper I drew up years ago.
Spoke to Sal and told him about ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ. He showed me some "feedback" returns on game suggestions. Some people rate a "Rip-Off" GAME and an "Escape" GAME highly. If enough do, he will prepare the games.
Asked about the missing part in FOXBAT & PHANTOM and was told that there is an error. There are only two sheets of planes. (Later confirmed that there are English and French planes on the two sheets I have.)
Took copies of PHALANX and NATO, SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN and BULL RUN are not ready yet.
Spoke to Redmund. He doesn't think he'll have any problem getting my full column in S&T #40.
Spoke to Jim Dunnigan and he doesn't mind if my review of EXECUTIVE DECISION is run in G&P without change.
He spoke to the president of Midwest Research who said something about sending me a "Basketball Game." I already have their NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYERS BASKETBALL GAME (SEE 6/21/72). The president also asked about my column not being in #39.

To "Gamut of Games." Phil showed me the article on selling games in THE CAPITALIST REPORTER. There are some inaccuracies, such as attributing MASTERPIECE to M.B. [Milton Bradley] However I asked Phil for a copy and he'll have it made at Reiss.
The worst of the five p&p games is CHINESECHEK which is running about 15% under NINETACTOE, WORDPLAY, DAMN-IT!, and VEGAS 13, which are pretty much neck and neck.
Watched Phil & Nick play a game of LAND BARON. (See sheet that I took with me.) Players in turn throw 3 dice and pick 2 of them to give a total corresponding to a "property." First to choose a property owns it but must pay the purchase price. Each
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