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DECEMBER 1974 - FRIDAY 13
347TH DAY - 18 DAYS TO COME

Downtown. Stopped at Bob Reiss' and Bob Gellman's offices. Neither in.
To S&R. The regular gal was not there and the other one wanted to charge me $3 for a review copy of THE OLD SHELL GAME. Then Lee Tiffany (who I didn't remember) greeted me effusively and she just gave me the game. Looked at GOT A MINUTE. I think there are 7 dice, and the score for 2 to 6 letter words are 2 to 6 and 10 points for a 7-letter word.
The list price of THE OLD SHELL GAME is $6.00.
To Mag-Nif. Got a copy of TURNABOUT (list price $5.00) and also a sheet with strategy that sells for [illegible strikeout] 25¢. Also took a catalog (filed in '74 misc. [1974 miscellaneous]). Nothing new in games Saw SCORE 3 (see diagram) in catalog. [drawing of board] Obviously the object is to get 3 in a row. (Played around with King's moves and limiting it to 1 space orthogonally. Neither was much of a game.)

To Felicia. She just had a long talk with Shep Bently, who has replaced Jim Kelso as the head of games at Aladdin. It looks very encouraging for BALI.
The [illegible strikeout] problem with costing TAKEOVER is still there and Ed Schifman will discuss it with us. B-O-C-Q is being rejected and Ed will bring it, and tell her his comments.
I told her of my letter from Eric Naiburg on VECTOR and CARAPACE. She'll want $100 each for trying to place them.
Told her about EXECUTIVE DECISION in MONEY Magazine. She'd like a copy and I said I'd bring it.
She had a clipping from Sunday's TIMES with an article on war-gaming - mainly about A.H. [Avalon Hill], mentioning Tom Shaw and THE GENERAL. Games mentioned were: GUADALCANAL, CHANCELLORVILLE RICHTHOFEN'S WAR, CHANCELLORSVILLE, MIDWAY, STALINGRAD, JUTLAND, PANZERBLITZ, GETTYSBURG, THE MOSCOW CAMPAIGN, RUSSIA 1941, LA GRANDE ARMEE. NAPOLEON IN CENTRAL EUROPE 1805-1809, 1776 (A.H.) [Avalon Hill], 1914, THE THIRD REICH, DIPLOMACY, GAMBIT, IMPERIALISM, BAR-LEV, NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION, TACTICS II, BATTLE OF THE BULGE, D-DAY, MIDWAY, U-BOAT. (Filed in '74 misc. [1974 miscellaneous]) (If she needs it I will run a repro [reproduction] for her.
While looking in her cabinet I came across KOO KOO KONSTRUCTIONS by George Bredehorn. There is a metal board that is stood up at about 15% to vertical. There is a spinner with numbers from 4 (about) to 12. There are 12 odd shaped pcs. [pieces] with cards corresponding to each. A player spins the dial and then takes that many cards from the shuffled deck. The corresponding pcs. are then attached magnetically to the board in order, starting at the top of the board, they were drawn. A marble is then released at the top. The player scores one point for each pc. hit in the proper order, with a bonus for hitting them all.
She also has a color picture of his CAN DO, "A game of balancing skill in which a variety of wobbly structures must
(cont. [continued] on 12/12)