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11/22

<br>23 Friday - November 1973

<br>327 day - 38 days to come

Wrote rules for <u>WILDCAT</u>. Trying to make a new layout

for the <u>EMPIRE</u> Gamesheet. Started with hexes but finally

decided on irregular shapes, like a map.

Played <u>WILDCAT</u> and <u>WINDFALL</u> with the <u>Laurence</u>s - 2 hand and

4 hand. For 4 hand <u>WINDFALL</u> was more popular. For 2 hand

Phil and I found <u>WILDCAT</u> quite strategic. For <u>WINDFALL</u> I

changed 4 capital spaces in each area to "5" and 4 to

"20", giving a total of "160" instead of the orifinal "140."

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(cont. from 11/24) [12/5]

out and returned before end of the year. Mentions <u>MIDWAY</u>,  

<u>XENOGOGIC VI</u>, <u>PHI ETA OMEGA</u>, <u>TRI THETA EPSILON</u>, <u>PUZZLE</u>

(a simulation game by "Interact"), <u>SEARCH</u>, <u>STRIKE</u>, <u>SUNSHINE</u>,  

<u>NEXUS</u> (I.D.S.), <u>COLD WAR GAME</u>, <u>SIMCOM</u>, <u>DOOMSDAY</u>, <u>SINEX</u>,  

<u>INTERNATIONAL SIMULATION</u>, <u>DIG</u>, <u>LIBERTE</u>, <u>DRANG NACH OSTEN!</u>,  

<u>UNENTSCHIEDEN!</u>, <u>TRIPLANETARY</u>, <u>ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ</u>, <u>ALBION</u>,  

<u>LENSMAN</u>, <u>SINK THE BISMARCK!</u>, <u>GROSSTAKTIK</u>, <u>ATLANTA</u>,  

<u>THE PENTAGON GAME</u>, <u>GO</u> Vs<u>CHESS</u>, <u>THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF GAMES</u>

(Club), <u>SCARNE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GAMES</u>.

if he'll do anything about it.).

<br>Martin suggested that I might try to market a set of

<u>MINI-GAMES</u>, the smallest meaningful board for various

standard games. He has found that 5x5 is the minimum

for <u>CHECKERS</u>, also for <u>CHESS</u> so that all moves - including

castling and en passant - and pcs. [pieces] are involved. 3 pcs. per  

person is far from trivial for <u>CHINESE CHECKERS</u>. (I asked

him why he didn't do it himself. It's just out of his line.)

<br>He suggested that, since the occult is getting more and  

more followers - even among intellectuals, I might do well

with an ESP <u>GAME</u>. Told him that a number have been  

done, without much success. (Mentioned that of the

people who buy <u>TAROT</u> cards I doubt if 1 in a thousand okay

actual games with them.)

<br>He told me of an acquaintance of his who plays <u>CHOMP</u> using

raisin set up in an array. The one to be avoided is a  

different color (the one in the corner opposite the starting

corner). To remove the raisins an edge set with a  

right angle is used for pushing them away. He said I

was welcome to make any use I wish of this idea.  

<br>(cont. on 11/22)