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15 Saturday - September 1973
258th day - 107 days to come

BB typed the rules for PUSHOVER and THE 31ST HEX. I put in the diagrams and copies made at Boston Rd. First set was light, 2nd had black marks.

Made a set of 18 pcs. [pieces] for playing the GAME of 9/10. Made a container for SLIDEWORD.

With Phil Laurence and Eliot watching played SLIDEWORD, with 2 blank spaces and allowing up to 10 moves. A move can consist of moving any number of tiles any number of spaces in a row or column. Score 1 point for 3 letter word, 3 for 4 letter, and 5 for 5 letter.
It was almost always possible to come up with a 5 letter word and winning depended on getting words in the other directions.
Decided not to allow different forms of the same word.
Decided to allow a p tile to move back from where it came.
Played the GAME with 18 pcs. with Phil and Eliot. Score 1 point for each square in a row of the same type. Played first with players having a choice of pcs. Then with drawing one pc. and playing it. Neither was great. To get greater diversity in the patterns, prohibited placing a pc. side by side - either long or short - with an already placed piece pc. This was a little better.
Later thought of each player having a symbol and trying to get his in as big a group as possible while opponent trying to separate opponent's squares.
Played 3-hand THE 31ST HEX. It played O.K. but was over very quickly. In stopping Eliot I had to let Phil win.
Annette brought out a game I-QUBES that Phile had gotten from his father years ago. (She did it because of SLIDEWORD.)
There are 7 cubes with letters - half red and half black.
There are no rules and she wondered if I knew the game.
Told her I check my files.

(cont. from 9/16) [9/17]

also liked and kept BREAKDOWN and PSYCHOLOGICAL BLOCKS. Felicia mentioned that she'd start showing FACTOR again. (Why?) She asked me to take CLUE-WORDS with me to return to George Bredehorn when I see him Friday. I agreed.
Gave her the models of THE 31ST HEX and PUSHOVER. She looked at them shortly and then packed them for shipment to Hallmark by U.P.S.

I asked her about a word game (TAKE-A-WORD) for the puzzle games. She said that she was specifically told "no word games."