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11/24
NOVEMBER 1974 - MONDAY 25
329TH DAY - 36 DAYS TO COME

Looked at what I had done on a MEMORY GAME (see 6/19/70). Saw that it was too expensive and cumbersome. Thinking about it today and the next few days came up with the following: Have a plastic frame with pockets into which 16 card board squares are placed at random, face down. A cover is placed on the frame to hold the cardboard squares in place while the frame is flipped. Holes in the frame allow the fronts of the squares to be seen. Players study them until one player thinks he has them memorized - or enough to win the game. He reflips the frame and removes the cover. He chooses one corner - which he will use for the remainder of the game - and announces the face, turns it over. If correct he can continue with another that is next to it - including diagonally - He can quit at any time and score for the squares correctly identified. A mistake loses all score for that turn. Also, in order to score a player must make more points on a turn that he did in any previous turn. Each player has a different starting corner.

Another plobab probably better - idea is to have the opponent's choose each square to be identified. Allow a player to quit after the square is chosen - if he wishes. (This is better because it will eliminate a player using the same path over and over.) The necessity of getting a higher score each time can be dispensed with with this method.

A weaker player can be given a handicap of more time to study the layout. (More work is req'd on this.)

Letter from Walter Luc Haas. He has rcd. MACARTHUR and PATTON but hasn't tried them yet. Mentions EUROPA #3 and Harold Totten. Would like me to send him S.P.I.'s STRATEGY I, STARFORCE: ALPHA CENTAURI and PATROL, also Battleline's WOODEN SHIPS AND IRON MEN. (He is sending me a postal - money for $40.)

Copied the S.P.I. Inventory list (see 11/22) and hung it on the wall (with S&T columns) as a permanent record to be kept up to date.

Felicia called to thank me for the New York Mag. I left on 11/22. Told her about the article on me in COSMOPOLITAN. She said she'd buy one, even tho I offered a repro.

Aladdin has misplaced the B-O-C-Q model - but they're not sure that they'll find it.

Called Claude and spoke to Anne. Claude has bought a number of verry large loose leaf books - at 10¢ each and she asked if I'd like some. Probably. I told her about the miniature tools I bought on 11/23. She thinks Claude will be interested.

Claude called me back later and said that the loose leaf books

(cont. on 11/24)

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