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18 SATURDAY - MAY 1974
ARMED FORCES DAY - 138TH DAY - 227 DAYS TO COME

Finished checking all 60 NO WAY problems. Drew up a sheet
with two layouts, one with the name, the other without.
Got 8 repros at Boston Road and cut them apart.

Call from Felicia to say that the 3M check for 3M foreign royal-
ties reached her, and to thank me.

Rcd. three copies of a new contract from 3M concerning the
foreign royalties. Seems o.k.

Showed Phil Laurence the NO WAY problem and he solved one with
a lot of help from me. Then he gave up on another.
Played KLEE with Phil and beat him easily. After we set up in
secret I decided it would be easier to set up one group on
turn. Naturally duplications are not permitted.
Played a couple of games of SPRINGER. One ended with both
players being blocked. I decided to call this a win for the
second player. Phil always tried to go from one corner to
another and I decided that I'll have to do something to get
away from this. At present this is the logical way to win.

(cont. from 5/20 5/19) [5/20]

She saw TORUS at Mag-Nif and wondered if it was too much
like SKYSCRAPERS. I told her that I had told Keith about it when
I first gave him my puzzle. With my new changes they are even
more different now. Said hello to Bill Caruson who was there for a
moment.
- Gameophiles: Spoke to Charles Wibel and complained that he never
sent me review copies. He took my card and said he'd send them.
Took a catalog with some other info, and a duplicate for Phil.
Listed are FRUSTABLES, CORNERED-BUT-UNDAUNTED, THE CONNECTION (a
puzzle) YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING (Gini Scott's ROAD MAP - see 2/26/73);
EMOTE, POLICE STATE (which he has taken over); FRONT PAGE; PENTAGON;
FLIP AND FLOP, SYNTACTICS, COLORATION (which Wibel said was a
color SCRABBLE - but not to quote that. There are tiles of the 6 colors
which are placed in groups without repeating colors - from 2 to 6 -
but can continue after 6 by mirror symmetry); and
THE GREAT CITY GAME - LONDON (ROME-PARIS) three versions.
- American Greeting. On a small lower shelf saw the previous games and
one new one BUCK-A-LUCK. There are 4 dials set in a row and
ccx x-3
ccc x-5 [bracket drawn]
ooo x-10 [bracket drawn] Add 10 for 4th
ppp x-15 [bracket drawn]
BBB x-20 [bracket drawn]
sss s-100
xxx L-0

C=Cherry
O=Orange
P=Plum
B=Bell
S=Star
L=Lemon

so that they can be seen from two
sides. Actually each dial's two sides
are separate and can either be moved
together [illegible strikeout] or can be set to a
different relationship. 2 play and take
turns moving a dial - the 2 faces
moving together - at the start they
are set at random including the
(cont. on 5/16)

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