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11 FRIDAY - OCTOBER 1974 284TH DAY - 81 DAYS TO COME

In answer Called Bob Gellman and he called me back. We talked about what I had found wrong with WEEKEND IN VEGAS. When he has a new edition he'd like me to go over the rules.

Gave him Walter Luc Haas address and he'll send PATTON and MACARTHUR.

He mentioned that a movie on "MacArthur" is in the works.

Call from Ralph Anspach, the inventor of ANTI-MONOPOLY. He got my name from Marvin Kaye after reading his book. (I am pretty sure he said that.) He is involved in suing General Mills for "restraint of trade." He was interested in what I said in AGOG about MONOPOLY. I suggested that he get in touch with Willard Allphin.

He will be in New York late Sunday, through Tuesday and would like to come up to visit me. Told him that Pierre Berloquin was coming to town just then and it would be difficult. He'll call me Sunday when he gets in.

(cont. from 10/16) [10/16]

places a ring inside a ring just played by the opponent, the opponent must take back his ring. First to play all his rings wins. Martin felt that the game was trivial since the first player could just play his smallest first, then the next smallest, etc. (But I later And as long as the 2nd player also plays in this order (but as I later thought - why should he?) the first would win. When Martin wrote to Ruston, Ruston sent the following game which he said write "Blew his mind." (1 is largest; 5 is smallest. W5-B5; W4-B4; W3-B2; W2-B3 (returning W2); W2-B1 (winning).

A series of "Rolling Cube PUZZLES" - didn't get the inventor or much of the details. One (I believe) was [drawing of cube puzzle] as shown. 8 dice have the one side up. with a center space vacant. Object is to change them all to 6 in the same starting positions (but not necessarily each die in its own position) in the least number of moves. (Actually it was given with one red face and an opposite black face on each die, the others being blank.)

Pierre gave Martin some of his column (repros) from SCIENCE ET VIE (which he has been writing for about 10 years). One had a domino PUZZLE, or rather solitaire. The pcs. are pcs placed [drawing of "domino" puzzle] in a 7x8 rectangle and the numbers written on a lattice. Object is to reconstruct the setup with the dominos. They said that this was in Lech Pijanow came from Lech Pijanowski and was in Martin's column. But, since I didn't remember it, I copied the example.

(cont. on 10/8)

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