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24 TUESDAY - DECEMBER 1974
358TH DAY - 7 DAYS TO COME

Letter from Martin Gardner. In it there was a letter to Martin from Marek Penszko. He mentions TORUS, L-GAME, FOOTBALL, and sends a sample game but no rules. He also asks Martin to send me the FOOTBALL info and said he'll write to me. Martin penciled in a question if I knew the game. No.

Letter from Walter Haas. Mentions DELPHI, PSYCHE-PATHS, BUGS AND LOOOPS, AGOG. A subscriber of his writes that he collects rules of games: [drawn bracket] Heiner Zech [drawn bracket] Gunthersbuhler Str. 81 [drawn bracket] D-85 Nurnberg [drawn bracket] Bundesrepublik Deutchland

Mentioned Howie Barasch, LEIPZIG EL ALAMEIN, S&T, MOVES, PATTON, MACARTHUR, ACQUIRE, SLEUTH, BAZAAR, SPIELBRETT, Frank Thibault, AUSGETRICKST, SAMURAI and its inventor, SHOGI, GO, SHOGI, KALAHA, IMURI, SRI-LANKA, I-SHI, BREAKTHRU, TRIMULA, TRICOLOR, LASKA, PAGODE, MAH-JONGG, BACKGAMMON, TROQUE, SURAKARTA, PLOY, FEUDAL, REVERSI, BRIDGE, FALLE, G&P, PHILATELY, TOTALLY, INTERSECTION, [ILLEGIBLE STRIKEOUT] WONDERFUL WORLD OF GAMES, PAGODE, RAILWAY RIVALS, BRECHE, Dave Isby, IMPERIALISM, STARLORD, BUSINESS STRATEGY, HARE AND TORTOISE, PRIZE PROPERTY, NEWTOWN.

Card from Jerry D'Arcey - Holiday - with a note that he is coming to N.Y. in January.

Holiday card from Don Turnbull. Mentions ALBION.

Letter from Ed Schifman. Mentions PUSHOVER, THE GAME OF LIFE (which I think is a "Goose" type game we discussed, and BARRIER pcs. (which he'll send me a supply of after the first of the year. He also said that he started the paper work on the games I requested. In a separate envelope rcd. an invoice that the following were shipped: 6 - TOTALLY, 6 - INTERSECTION, 1 deluxe and 1 regular TRIPPPLES.

Joe, of p.p. route #2 brought me a package from England with $2.00 due and $.80 postage due. He said that foreign packages should get a different type of card than the one left yesterday, but the other fellow may have made a mistake. The package contained STRATEGY and KINGMAKER.

Didn't hear from Manny Lefkowitz so called him again. Set date for Thurs. morning at 9:30.

Called Claude and spoke to Anne about our date Friday. Invited any of the kids who wanted to come.

(cont. from 12/25) [12/26]

I'll use a diagram like the Vasarely poster in my roomand call it VASARELY.

I'll suggest using 7 games instead of 8 and putting in a double amount of SPRINGER, since it is a fast game. [Started 12/26]