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Created page with "'''27 TUESDAY * NOVEMBER 1973'''<br> 331ST DAY * 34 DAYS TO COME ---- To "Gamut of GAMES". Gave <u>Phil</u> the rules for <u>WILDCAT</u>,<br> <u>INVESTIGATION</u>, <u>EMPIRE</u>, <u>SPECULATE</u> (Phil reminded me of <br> Graeme's <u>SPECULATE</u> but he liked the name to present it to Manny).<br> The games he gave to Manny are <u>THE GREAT RACES</u>, <u>TRIVIA</u>,<br> <u>MISSING LINK</u>, <u>LAND BARON</u>, and <u>HEXOWORD</u> (which he didn't tell me<br> of be..."
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331ST DAY * 34 DAYS TO COME | 331ST DAY * 34 DAYS TO COME | ||
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To "Gamut of | To "Gamut of Games". Gave <u>Phil</u> the rules for <u>WILDCAT</u>,<br> | ||
<u>INVESTIGATION</u>, <u>EMPIRE</u>, <u>SPECULATE</u> (Phil reminded me of <br> | <u>INVESTIGATION</u>, <u>EMPIRE</u>, <u>SPECULATE</u> (Phil reminded me of <br> | ||
Graeme's <u>SPECULATE</u> but he liked the name to present it to Manny).<br> | Graeme's <u>SPECULATE</u> but he liked the name to present it to Manny).<br> | ||
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from Intellect Games. Made repros of the info on <u>STOCKBROKER</u>,<br> | from Intellect Games. Made repros of the info on <u>STOCKBROKER</u>,<br> | ||
<u>SPANISH CHATTER</u>, <u>FRENCH CHATTER</u>, and <u>CABBIE</u>.<br> | <u>SPANISH CHATTER</u>, <u>FRENCH CHATTER</u>, and <u>CABBIE</u>.<br> | ||
Also saw a letter from <u>Graeme</u> saying that Spears didn't want<br> | |||
to publish <u>CARTEL</u>, <u>REALM</u>, <u>INFINITY</u>, and <u>MONTAGE</u>. He will try a<br> | |||
smaller company - the one who put out <u>THE SIGMA FILE</u>.<br> | |||
Phil said that 75,000 each of original 5 p & p games were run off, and all will be sold.<br> | |||
At one of those X'Mas stores on 23rd St. bought <u>POKA-TILE</u> (an<br> | |||
1961 Ideal game which I had seen but not bought). Among<br> | |||
other very old items they had Parker's <u>FLAG GAME</u>.<br> | |||
To S.P.I. spoke to <u>Jim Dunnigan</u> and told him about Felicia's suggestion<br> | |||
that <u>Dorothy Shapiro</u> get a subscription to ''<u>S & T</u>''. He'll<br> | |||
send her one. Took copies of ''<u>S & T</u>'' #37, 38, 39, and 40.<br> | |||
Checked with Redmund and two weeks from now is O.K. for my<br> | |||
next column.<br> | |||
Ran off copies of three Dutch game rules to give my father<br> | |||
some work: - <u>SIROCCO</u>, <u>ZIG-ZAG</u>, and <u>WIEKSLAG</u> (later discovered<br> | |||
that there were French rules for this one - but I'll give it to<br> | |||
dad anyway so that he can check his translation).<br> | |||
To Random House. <u>Fabio</u> gave me two copies of a book - <br> | |||
''<u>ALTAIR DESIGN</u>''. This has sold over 100,000 at $1.95. If I can<br> | |||
come up with something entirely different that has the<br> | |||
same type of appeal they'd be very interested in it. He also<br> | |||
mentioned the possibility of their doing a paper back of<br> | |||
''<u>AGOG</u>'' - but very vaguely. I mentioned that I have <s>getting</s> been getting<br> | |||
requests for a sequel to ''<u>AGOG</u>''. He said to prepare a listing of<br>what I would want to include and maybe it can be published<br> | |||
simultaneously in hard and soft cover. Another possibility he<br> | |||
threw out was a book including game connected with U.S.<br> | |||
history, in connection with the bicentennial - for children.<br> | |||
He also thought that the sequel to ''<u>AGOG</u>'' should be aimed <br> | |||
more towards children. (A lot of this conversation at the<br> | |||
Cornell Club where he took me for an expensive lunch.)<br> | |||
Gave <u>Fay Hartog</u> the copies I made of the <s>two</s> last two royalty<br> | |||
reports and she got repros and returned them to me. She'll try<br> | |||
to get me an answer within a week.<br> | |||
Fabio thought that over $2,000 was a lot to get from the<br> | |||
reprint edition, especially since Random House was getting half.<br> | |||
(cont. on 11/25) | |||