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3/22
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21 FRIDAY - MARCH 1975
FIRST DAY OF SPRING - 80TH DAY - 285 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. a note from Bill Williams saying that the rules for BLACK THURSDAY and SHORTAGE are no longer available. Returned my stamps. (see 3/7.)

Call from Claude. Hasbro is interested in games with "gimmiks."

Met Claude and, after having supper out, went to Dave Greenwald's. Wald was there with Bobbie (see 10/31/74) and his new girl friend (whose name I don't recall Maria). Dave's friend Eric also there. Henry & Patricia Pelham Burn were supposed to come, but got tickets for the opera.

Wald, Bobbie, Eric, and I played Wald's GAME (see 10/31/74). It is the same as then with the following changes. The board has more spaces. The smallest racket now has three spaces, while the largest is still 7 spaces. Some spaces allow you to "rip-off" another player of your choice for $500. Others force you to pay $1000 bribe to a policeman. I believe that the "Go to Jail" space was removed. Jail comes from someone playing your "skeleton" card, or if you claim control of a racket and don't have at least one card of that racket to put down on next turn after claiming the racket (why claim it if you don't have one card?). In jail a player must pay a fine (I think $1,500 but this seems low) and a bribe to the judge (I think $1,000). If on turn to get out you throw a seven, the judge is "dishonest" and you have to stay until, in your turn, you throw another seven. In moving pay $100 per pip, except when collecting from "ma's mattress" the same amount. (I'm not sure if you have to pay for your move - probably not.) There is a "On the Take" space where each player's passing causes a payment from the gang, to be collected when a player lands by even count. We kept forgetting to put money into to it and I suggested instead that all bribes go into it. Wald liked that idea.

In the deck of cards instead of the two "black-hand" cards allow a player to take out a contract on another player (one is required). $5000 must be payed to the gang and another player must be found to take the contract. This player must overtake the victim to execute the contract. When executed, the one who had the card gets the property & money from the victim - and splits it according to his agreement with the killer.

After moving, a player can buy up to 4 cards, at $300 each. After turn is ended a player puts down one card. To win must have $15,000 and get rid of all cards from hand. Blanks can be put down all at once, but others only 1 at a time, except for an announced racket when the 3 are put down together.

There are undoubtedly some points I have left out, but the game was so cluttered that we often forgot to have a player prove a racket in his next turn, and I think that

(cont. on 3/22)