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5/11
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MAY 1974 - MONDAY 13
133RD DAY - 232 DAYS TO COME

Downtown to Fabio Coen. We played a game of ARP and parts of SPRINGER, MONDRIAN, DELAUNAY, and KLEE.
He likes the general idea and wants to try it out on the sales dept. For that he'll need rules and I promised to get them to him in 2 to 3 weeks. I said that they won't be in final shape and that is o.k. with him.
He had a gal run of [off] 20 of each game and gave me half of them.
He doesn't think we can use SPRINGER since it looks too much like ALTAI DESIGN and there is no need for a scoring area. He wants a scoring area added to ARP.
I said that I could come up with another game and more if he wishes. For the present he'll work with the games on hand - after I provide the rules.
Told him that Nelson is doing AGOG in England and he seemed pleased.
He saw Alex Randolph in Venice. Alex was upset over the fall off of royalties and Hallmark's poor performance. After a visit to (probably) Hallmark, where he sold another game he felt better.
To lunch at the Cornell Club. Before this Fay had shown me a copy of FOUL PLAY AND OTHER PUZZLES OF ALL KINDS by Vintage Books - a Random House subsidiary. Later, when Fay was out to lunch, Fabio gave it to me saying that Fay can pick up another.

To Felicia's. Mike Riley there. He showed us the following:
COLOR PYRAMID - there are five pcs. [pieces] consisting of two balls fastened together, [drawing of balls fastened together]. These are to be built into a pyramid so that no two balls of the same color touch.
BOXED IN - there are six pcs. [pieces] similar to the one shown (which is most likely not one of those actually used). [drawing of piece] Object is to mesh them together into a cube.
CAM SHAFT - a large number of wheels are mounted on two shafts, of different sizes and off center in different directions. The two are mounted so that the wheels mesh. Object is to turn the shafts to that the a ball is moved from one end to the other.
O.K. JOE'S (named for the bar where he first got the idea). There are four rings, as shown, [drawing of rings] mounted on a shaft. When still the loops do not line up. The object is to start them swinging so that a stick can be inserted with a single thrust.
THE WEAVER - 15 pegs are mounted on a wood base. A string is tied to one of these and the other end is tied to a loose peg, for which there is a hole. Object is to thread the string so that it touches each peg once and just makes it to the hole. (I did it easily. He said that so far each solution has been different.
SHINGLES - a game for 2. There is a base with 25 pegs.
(cont. [continued] on 5/11)