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MAY 1974 - FRIDAY 17
137TH DAY - 228 DAYS TO COME

Working on NO WAY solutions. Couldn't solve 4-5-2 and
finally added an extra line.

Rcd. May TOYS. Nothing new.

Rcd. a letter from Bill Rawlings thanking me for the excerpts
from GAMES WITH PENCIL AND PAPER. He enclosed a booklet
that he has put together with the following game rules:-
BULO, CHECKERS, CHOMP, CRASH, COLLISION, DEPLOYMENT,
EULER SQUARES. FELIX AND ROVER, GIVAWAY CHECKERS, GO-MOKU,
HEX, HIP, INTERNATIONAL CHECKERS, NULL, PARITY, OWARE,
PENTOMINOES, NINE MAN MORRIS, REVERSI, MAGIC SQUARES,
SECRET WORD, SIM, SINKO, SPROUTS, SPANISH POOL, SALVO,
SQUARES, UNCRASH, SEEGA, THREE DIMENSIONAL TICTACTOE.
The book is named NON-CHESS GAMES, RULES FOR PLAYING BY MAIL.

Rcd. letter from Haar Hoolim. Mentioned FOCUS, STACK-UP, Martin Gardner,
UP. Enclosed copies of letters to Or-Da and Roylon.

Rcd. THE GAMESLETTER #71. Contains some comments on THE WARLORD
by S.K. Howard mention that GRUNDSTEIT #32-33 has a game
NAPOLEAN AT WAR; article on GO by Ted Drange; review (or contents
that is) of G&P #20, 21, 22, and 23; SON OF BELLICUS (Mag.)
mentions many DIPLOMACY variations including SATRAP, GUELPH,
ATOMIC WARFARE I, JIHAD, PARATIME, CLINE'S 9-MAN GAME;
CHESS CHATTER chatter.

Call from Phil Orbanes. He is working on a possible premium game
for a chewing gum company that is making bubble gum in the
form of "gold nuggets." He remembered a game based on
"Uranium Prospecting" that he was thinking of changing to "gold."
Found the game - URANIUM RUSH - in my card file, and read it to Phil.
It seems that "Gamut of Games" will be merged into Reiss in a
few weeks, Phil will then be in charge of R&D there. It will
probably mean more money, but it won't be as pleasant.
He asked me to pick up catalogs for him at Stationary Show.

To Issy Rothman's with BB, picking up Claude, Anne, and
Richie on the way. Earl there. (Brought bottle of wine.)
About the only talk of games was that Earl is trying to
contact Mitch Reid of HASBRO to try and get some money
before going to Greece for the summer.

Also Claude had a "Partnership Agreement" that Wald had
given him for us to sign. I said that I had too many
other commitments to get into this. I believe that the others
didn't sign either. The name chosen was "Quixotic Games."
Brought along WHAT'S IT WORTH TO YOU? but we didn't play. Did
play one game of ARP with Issy's daughter. She won.

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