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AUGUST 1974 - WEDNESDAY 21 233RD DAY - 132 DAYS TO COME

Call from Felicia. She heard from Keith Tuggle. The sales of the p&p games - HEDRON, etc. are are so bad that they are holding up on the line.

Rcd. a form letter from : [drawn bracket] Walter Luc Haas [drawn bracket] Achilles Bischoff - Str. 6 [drawn bracket] CH-4053 Basel [drawn bracket] Switzerland

He sent me a copy of his new magazine - EUROPA. It is a roundup of clubs magazine, and other info - most of it American - on wargaming. Among games mentioned, [illegible strikeout] is [illegible strikeout] EARLY PACIFIC BATTLES.

(Call from Felicia cont.) Instead of the $500 advance on Alan Newman's 4 games, they are offering a $200 holding fee on each (but he said $1000 - ?) till the end of the year. He wanted the same deal with my NO WAY, but since we have a signed contract she refused.

Tried to call Ralph Betza. No answer.

(cont. from 8/22) [8/22]

been writing to Norton Cross about getting TRANSFORMATION back, but hasn't gotten an answer. We agreed that I'd try Mary Hilt.

I said that I agreed with Felicia that it didn't look good for her if my games came in from other agents to a company that she was sending to. Tom said that the best thing would be for me to use a pseudonym for all things that I give to him from now on. I agreed.

Parker will probably be going ahead with their "adult line" with some distribution this fall.

MASTERMIND is the feature game. To make it play faster, the number of pegs in a line has been reduced from 4 to 3.

HANNIBAL seems something like PACHISI. The third GAME (Tom didn't remember the name) sounds something like 3M's EVADE.

I asked if there had been any comment when HIT THE JACKPOT was rejected. No, but Tom thinks it may have been too long-playing. They want very short ones.

Alex Randolph sent him one which (I believe) is called TWOODLES. there is a 4x3 field made so that 12 chips - 3 each of 4 colors - can be "wiped" at random, There are 6 cards with pairs of colors - all 6 arrangements - with holes in each color. [drawing of two connected squares] These are placed on the board covering two chips of the proper colors. Last to place a card wins. All cards are available to the players until, of course, one is played. Tom mentioned a game STRATA POLT which I can't remember any-

(cont. on 8/20)

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