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26 SATURDAY - JANUARY 1974
26TH DAY - 339 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. a statement of my 1973 3M earnings - $14,535.53.
(checked out correctly.)

While looking at the PLAYTHINGS issue rcd. on 1/17 I noticed
items about NEW TOWN and ZZIZZ, a pencil and paper word
game with "a chess like character that should appeal to one
who reall wants a game that's a purely intellactual test." Later
sent Reader Service Card for it. Also, noticed UP 'N ON by
Munro and added that to the card.

Al Richter showed me a book CREATIVITY TRAINING by Werner
Kirst & Ulrich Dickmeyer (Peter J. Wyden, Inc./N.Y.). It has
some "games" in the broadest sense.
Played 4-hand THE BRAIN GAME. Adela won with Al very close
behind. It was more fun than I remembered.
Later thought of adding 27 more cards to make a total of
108. These would allow trading, both individual and for
all; auctioning; one time stops on another player taking a
particular company card; counteraction to the Genius; and
others. One of these is drawn at the end of each player's
turn. The trading coming from a double on the white dice
will be eliminated. In the end portion - after all of the
cards have been taken - only 2 dice should be thrown to get
the price for taking a card. With a throw of 2 thru 5
you pay and don't get the card. With 7 or 11 don't pay and get
the card. With other number pay and get the card. (This
averages out to $7,230 for a card.)

(cont. from 1/31) [1/30]

on tablecan be rearranged in any way as long as all
cards are in valid melds. First to play out wins. This seems
to be a simplification of CAROUSEL.
Felicia said that Bob Johnson said the SPECTRUM is still being tested.
He said that they didn't like HARDHAT and are returning
it. Felicia will try it with Ed-O-Cards. M.B. is developing
all card games in house and will not pay royalties on them.
Felicia asked me what I thought we should do with LOTTERY,
THE 31ST HEX and PUSHOVER, but never came to any conclusion.
And Felicia told me that she had heard from Bob Abbott. He
put too many conditions on the art work, his name, etc. for
her to bother with his games. She hears that Graeme
Levin has placed EPAMINONDAS with a very small English
company. She asked what I thought of it and I said it was
just an expansion of CROSSINGS.
BB later told me that Felicia mentioned that 3M is having
difficulties getting paper. Ali mentioned that Alan
is very jealous of me.// Felicia told me that Bill Tyler is looking for
"bargains" to stock Brentano's. He wanted to throw out the 3M games, but Dorothy yelled.

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