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29 SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1974 SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - 272ND DAY - 93 DAYS TO COME

Finished writing up KLEE and MIRO.

(cont. from 10/1) [10/1]

Some of the cardboard partitions were off in FREE FORM and I took it with me. SPECTRUM was in good shape but Felicia wanted me to take it. I also took the model of HONORABLE RELATIONS, back from Hallmark. Very bad shape, with no rules.

The Aladdin people were in yesterday to discuss BALI. They like it a lot and will give an answer in about a month. "Bud" Thomas said to congratulate Sid on a great game. She told him that I hadn't done it.

They say we'll flip over the packaging for TOTALLY-- and INTERSECTION. They will send her 6 of each in the middle of October, and she'll give my four of each. They will be ready to ship in December.

They are mad at the organization they use for checking names for trade marks. They gave THE BRAIN GAME a clear bill and then someone at Aladdin rcd. a catalog (who'se?) with THE BRAIN GAME. (Alan said that there is a puzzle with that name.)

The Aladdin people say that they have sold over 1,000,000 copies of TRIPPPLES.

Returned the rules for PRESSURE and COMMAND DECISION. She had another game (rules and picture of the equipment) there. It is called CALCULATION, by T.R. Warner, 20325 N. Larkmoor, Southfield, Mich. 48076. There is a board with an array of holes - 7x7. Each player has 21 pegs, some silver and some gold. They have digits - from 0 to 9, 2 or 3 of each according to a chart - on one end. The pegs are placed in the board at random, noone knowing what the digits are. One of one player's pegs is placed in a hole in the side of the board - as a "secret number." Players in turn can move a peg one space and, I believe, look at it, or they can move a peg off the board so that they can see it. They can have up to 3 of these. Object is to get 3 that form an equation with "+" or "-", such as 7-3=4. They can show an equation each time they get a group of 4 of their pegs in a small square. If one of the 3 numbers matched the number in the "computer's memory" they win. If not, they put one of these pegs in the memory - and therefor knows what it is and can work to get an equation including it. (Rough idea, but the whole thing seems quite dull.)

Felicia called Mike McCarthy to check when he'll be coming in to look at RIGHT ANGLES and other things. Soon, but can't give a definite answer yet. Felicia told him that the story of Bill Dohrmann and FOREIGN INTRIGUE (which I told her before she called) and he definitely wants to look at it.

Bob Gellman had sent her an inventor with a PUZZLE, which

(cont. on 9/21)

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