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13 FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 1974 256TH DAY - 109 DAYS TO COME

At the "Pennsylvania Farm Museum" in a Gen Country Store saw a game CHECKEROLL. No date given. There is a checkerboard with holes in all the black spaces - and a cardboard backing. There are balls of two colors - 4 small and 8 large of each. The small balls are rolled at random into holes on the board. If one of the balls ends in a player's king row (across the board from him), it is replaced by a large check ball. Play is then as in regular CHECKERS. (These are pretty much the rules given, and they are not clear.) The comp manufacturer is "Checkeroll Co., Phila., Pa.

In Lancaster, [illegible strikeout] at Provident Book Store bought WUD-U-BLEV. The manufacturer - Baird Broadman Supplies - have a great many biblical games in the store. ($2 plus tax.) Also saw a "game," CAN OF SQUIRMS, which is another means of getting "players" to act out instructions on cards and then talking about them. (Didn't get the details.) The manufacturer is "Contemporary Drama Service," Arthur Meriwether, Inc., P.O. Box 457, Downers Grove, Ill. 60515. There are editions for different ages, and they are packed in cans.

Also saw DOUBLE CROSS by Lakeside. It is a new one that seems worth looking at.

Also saw DUTCH BLITZ but didn't buy it. (At home discovered that I had the rules - filed in "Misc. Card Games" folder.)

At "Goodwill Industries" bought SIEGE GAME (M.B. [Milton Bradley] 1966) which I never saw. (47¢.)

Also bought SPLIT. At home discovered that there should be jigsaw pcs. as part of the equipt. and there are missing. (75¢.)

At a "Farmer's Marker" saw a number of old games including UNIVERSE, COUP D'ETAT (Parker), and THE WORLD OF WALL STREET (which I was considering buying - but I have it).

Played TWICE AS HARD with BB using the rule to drop 5's from the count of each type of line. Didn't work out.

Then tried again with each player scoring for the number of his line connected in his turn = each player having one of the types of line. Didn't work out.

Later thinking of giving the player only the lesser of the two [illegible strikeout] groups of lines.

(cont. from 9/14) [10/31]

are two other decks of cards, one for "low sales" and one for "high sales." Each company is represented twice in each deck. The "high sales" "low sales" represent a price for each share held - the two for each company varying considerably, also with variation between companies. The "high sales" give a - much higher - amount, which is divided among the outstanding shares. Again there is a big varyiation variation between the two cards in the company, and between the companies. As players move

(cont. on 9/12)

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