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6 MONDAY - JANUARY 1975
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY - 6TH DAY - 359 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. G&P #31 (Dec '74). Ad that TROIKER, by Prof. ODIER professor Odier will be coming soon. Article on x'mas games including, among others, ANAGRAB - a new word game played with SCRABBLE tiles; a POKER variants where each player has one card that all other players can see, but not himself - unnamed GAME; HORSE RACING with cards - but adding continuous betting; PIT - stating that modern sets have suits of unequal length. Article on board SOLITAIRE. Ad for PHILATELY. Article on word games by R.C. Bell, including WORD MAKING AND WORD TAKING, SHAKE WORDS, AD-LIB CROSSWORD CUBES, KAN-U-GO, LEXICON. Ad for WILD LIFE. Gamesview of SPECTRA, GOLD RUSH, ELECTION X, and three books: DISCOVERING OLD BOARD GAMES by R.C. Bell - with mentions of CHASING THE GIRLS and GABATA, PUZZLES & TEASERS FOR EVERYONE and GAMES FOR TRAINS PLANES AND WET DAYS. Forum mentions THE L-GAME, DIPLOMACY, CARD BALUCH, and ALICE IN WONDERLAND. A new game - AMBUSH. CUTTING CORNERS from AGOG. Article on GO. Article by Derrick Knight on THE LABYRINTH (and AMAZE, NINE MENS MORRIS (or THE MILL GAME), BACKGAMMON, KALAHA (out of MANCALA by OWARE), and GO. Ad for CARPET GOLF. Ad for SEASTRIKE. Article on SCRABBLE. Short ads for GEO-LOGIC; DABLOT and TABLUT; PACHISI, NYOUT, and FIGHTING SERPENTS; INFINITY; Book FIRST THEORIES OF HEXAGONAL CHESS; LOGICA. Ad for ROUND-HOUSE, TOURNAMENT NOUGHTS AND CROSSES, CONTEXT.

Called M.B. [Milton Bradley] and asked for Terry Seymour. Not in.

Card to Mary Hilt. Mentioned SUPER CRIBBAGE.

Card to Jerry D'Arcey and family.

Card and letter to Frank Thibault and family. Mentioned CONTIGO, S&T, and G&P.

Called Leonard Willett and, with the reduction due to starting my tax free fund, we decided that another $300 would be enough to send to I.R.S.

Call from Felicia. She said that Aladdin is very ebullient over prospects for the game program. Shep Bentley told her that the shrink wrapping of the boxes would allow the top to be removed - which Felicia thinks will be particularly helpful for TOTALLY. She saw a great ad for TRIPPPLES in the New Yorker.

She spoke to Keith Tuggle. Kathy Heutzen will be working directly with Bill Caruson and will be out of games. The boss of the game program is Dick Christianson. And Keith stays as is.

Alan Newman's p&p games are all being returned. NO WAY will probably also be returned but Felicia told him how different it is and they'll consider further. The p&p games they did last year bombed. Felicia said that they were all just copies and he agreed. A research outfit had said they

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