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FEBRUARY 1974 - SUNDAY 24 
SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY - 55TH DAY - 310 DAYS TO COME 
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Finished BUSINESS STRATEGY and then did OUTDOOR SURVIVAL
and ALIEN SPACE. Mentioned BATTLE OF BRITAIN. BB typed column.

Working on packaging FOREIGN INTRIGUE, redoing the compartments
in the box I used before. Made changes in rules for 2-hand.
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(cont. [continued] from 2/23) [2/20]
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3M, and there are other possibilities. His company, he said,
still intends to move into the non-occult game field. He'll contact
me when they are looking. 
Incidentally, I told Alice - and Tom was listening - that Felicia
would act as my agent in the final negotiations. 
- Explorations Inc. Spoke to Robert St. Cyr again and he told me
that Jay Such was a co-inventor. He gave me a copy of BIG WIG.
Marvin Kaye happened by while I was there and he spoke to
St. Cyr and then left. I brought up Marvin's book A TOY IS BORN
and St. Cyr tried to find him to tell him how much he enjoyed it.

Met Jerry D'Arcey and we rode home together and he stayed over. 
Jerry showed me things he had along to show to manufacturers:
SWEEP. A new model of the PARCHISI type game with a rotating
arm that knocks the pcs. off. Lakeside gave him a contract
on the original and are calling it TIME'S UP. 
AUTOMATIC BIRDIE (By Bill & Jackie Shearer) A golf game with little or
no choice. 
MYSTERY CUBE: A large <s>pla</s> soft plastic cube with slots on the
6 faces into which papers can be inserted. No game to go with it. 
TOP DOG: Packaged in a box for $2 retail instead of $1. 
COUNTER POINT - his new name for KU-FU: (Knew that it had been
used but couldn't locate that it was Whitman in '71 [1971].) It is now
played in the inside of a box cover. There are 7 of each green,
red, blue, and yellow, and 2 purple tetrahedrons. Players in
turn much take a pair of the same color as long as any
pair is free of obstacles between them. If not take a single
pc. [piece] Score 4 for 4 of a kins, 5-6, 6-8, 7-10, 2 purple-5.
(Three of us played.) 
MONOLITH: See 8x5 card file. This was done by someone in California
and was willing to help finance Jerry's trip to N.Y. to show it.
(One of the other games was brought under a similar deal.) The
model had very attractive wood pcs. [pieces] (Played and beat Jerry) 
FILLER UP: Jerry's own game. There is one deck of "Regular Gas
cards" consisting of 4 each of "Empty", 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
15 (Full) - a total of 40 cards. Another deck of "Extra Gas
cards" consist of 4 each of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 1 each of 6, 7, 8, 9
- a total of 20 cards. Each player starts with 3 cars card
and 3 chips. Up to 6 (I believe) can play. 
Choose for first dealer and deal then rotates to the left. One 
(cont. [continued] on 2/27)

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FEBRUARY 1974 - SUNDAY 24
SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY - 55TH DAY - 310 DAYS TO COME

Finished BUSINESS STRATEGY and then did OUTDOOR SURVIVAL and ALIEN SPACE. Mentioned BATTLE OF BRITAIN. BB typed column.

Working on packaging FOREIGN INTRIGUE, redoing the compartments in the box I used before. Made changes in rules for 2-hand.

(cont. [continued] from 2/23) [2/20]

3M, and there are other possibilities. His company, he said, still intends to move into the non-occult game field. He'll contact me when they are looking.
Incidentally, I told Alice - and Tom was listening - that Felicia would act as my agent in the final negotiations.
- Explorations Inc. Spoke to Robert St. Cyr again and he told me that Jay Such was a co-inventor. He gave me a copy of BIG WIG. Marvin Kaye happened by while I was there and he spoke to St. Cyr and then left. I brought up Marvin's book A TOY IS BORN and St. Cyr tried to find him to tell him how much he enjoyed it.

Met Jerry D'Arcey and we rode home together and he stayed over.
Jerry showed me things he had along to show to manufacturers: SWEEP. A new model of the PARCHISI type game with a rotating arm that knocks the pcs. off. Lakeside gave him a contract on the original and are calling it TIME'S UP.
AUTOMATIC BIRDIE (By Bill & Jackie Shearer) A golf game with little or no choice.
MYSTERY CUBE: A large ~~pla~~ soft plastic cube with slots on the 6 faces into which papers can be inserted. No game to go with it.
TOP DOG: Packaged in a box for $2 retail instead of $1.
COUNTER POINT - his new name for KU-FU: (Knew that it had been used but couldn't locate that it was Whitman in '71 [1971].) It is now played in the inside of a box cover. There are 7 of each green, red, blue, and yellow, and 2 purple tetrahedrons. Players in turn much take a pair of the same color as long as any pair is free of obstacles between them. If not take a single pc. [piece] Score 4 for 4 of a kins, 5-6, 6-8, 7-10, 2 purple-5. (Three of us played.)
MONOLITH: See 8x5 card file. This was done by someone in California and was willing to help finance Jerry's trip to N.Y. to show it. (One of the other games was brought under a similar deal.) The model had very attractive wood pcs. [pieces] (Played and beat Jerry)
FILLER UP: Jerry's own game. There is one deck of "Regular Gas cards" consisting of 4 each of "Empty", 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15 (Full) - a total of 40 cards. Another deck of "Extra Gas cards" consist of 4 each of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 1 each of 6, 7, 8, 9 - a total of 20 cards. Each player starts with 3 cars card and 3 chips. Up to 6 (I believe) can play.
Choose for first dealer and deal then rotates to the left. One
(cont. [continued] on 2/27)

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