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SEPTEMBER 1974 - SATURDAY 28 271ST DAY - 94 DAYS TO COME

Postcard from Alister Macintyre with info on BRASS TACTICS, TREK (former name for CHIRP); STRATEGY [Van Seigling]. Mentions of 4000 AD and GAME OF NATIONS, GAME using TWIXT pegs.

Rcd. a letter from Walter Luc Haas. Would like me to write for EUROPA. Wants to exchange info. He likes and plays my games including ACQUIRE, SLEUTH, VENTURE, BAZAAR, EXECUTIVE DECISION, and MONAD. Other really good games - MASTER MIND, PAGODE, PLOY, REALM, SERATA. Other good games - AVALANCHE, BIG BOSS, LINGUA, MALEFIZ, NIL, STOCK MARKET, STOCKS & BONDS, TRADE, TRANSFORMATION, WIN, PLACE & SHOW, WORT-WEXEL, SPEED CIRCUIT. Mentions ALBION, S&T, Don Turnbull, AGOG, PATTON, MACARTHUR, Howie Barasch, Jim Dunnigan, CONQUEST, KING is actually DRAUGHTS.

Included a list of the games he owns (most of which follow) (D=Die roll only) (?=family game) (K=card game, only [illegible strikeout] mentioned if new kind of cards):- ACQUIRE, AEFFCHENSPIEL (?), AGENTENJAGD, ANGELSPIEL (?), ATTACKE, AUCTION, AUTORENNEN (D), AVALANCHE (?), BASEBALL, BAZAAR, BELAGERUNGSSPIEL, JEU DE L'ASSAULTE, BIG BOSS, BIMBO (K), BLOCKADE, BLUE LINE HOCKEY, BORSE, BORSENSPIEL, BOUNDARY, BREAK-THRU, BRECHE, CANYON, CHOUETTE, CLUEDO, COMBINATO, COMBINASTA (K), CONSTRUCTION, CONTACTIC, CRISTALLO, CROSS-MINO, DAME, ELEUSIS, ELFER RAUS (K), EVADE, EXECUTIVE DECISION, FANG DEN HUT, FEUDAL, FLOH, (TIDDLYWINKS), FOOTBALL, MAXO-MINO, GO, GOBANG, GOLF, JEU DE LA GUERRE (D), HALLO BOSS, HALMA, HI SPOT, HIGH BID, HUTCHENSPIEL (?), HYPERCHECKERS, HYPERCHESS, IMURI, INDIANER UND TRAPPER, ISOLA, KARRIERE, KRONUNG (D), LOTERIE ROYALE (D), LASKA, LINGUA, MALEFIZ, MASTER MIND, MEM, MIKADO, MIRROR MANIA, MONAD, MONOPOLY, MYRIORAMA, NEW TOWN, NIL, OCTRIX, OELFUR ALLE, OH-WAH-REE, OUTDOOR SURVIVAL, PACHISI, PAGODE, PFERDERENNEN (D), PHALANX, PLOY, PISTE (D), POLYRAMA, PROPAGANDA, PROVOPOLI, PSYCHOGRAMM, QUARTETT (K), QUINTO, RACK-O, REALM, REGATTA, REVERSI, RISIKO, RISK, RISKODISK, ROVE-MAIN, SERATA, SHOGI, SPEED CIRCUIT, SINGLE, SLEUTH, SOLO, SPECTRUM, STOCK-MARKET, STOCKS & BONDS, SUMMY (K), TONKIN, TOPOLOGIK, TRADE, TRANSFORMATION, TRICK 13 (K), TRYCE, TURNIER-U RITTERSPIEL, VARIETY, VENTURE, VERKEHRSSPIEL, WFF'N PROOF, WIN, PLACE & SHOW, WORDL, WORT-WEXEL, HEXAGON CHESS, BACKGAMMON.

Sketch of board for PAGODE. Some pages from catalogs the he wants returned with the following games: TRICK 13, TOP, MORRA, KUGELTURM, BOUNDARY, DOWNFALL (FALL RAUS), CRISS-CROSS-POKER, CHECK-POINT, HAPPY-CROSS, WER 1ST WER?, SPECULATION, KALAHA, BANKROTT DELUXE, PARTNERTEST, DIPLOMATIE, BLUFF, KERLETT, INTELLIGENZTEST, CHAOS.

Another envelope from Walter Luc Haas with the following:

(cont. on 9/22)