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30 FRIDAY - MAY 1975
150TH DAY - 215 DAYS TO COME

Called "Gamut of Games." Phil Orbanes not in. Left word that I was finished with the SLY material, that I won't be home today, and that Phil could reach me Monday.

To Princeton with Claude and Anne.

In one store saw MOD-QUAD, a game of 4 in a line on a 4 x 4 x 4 field, by Skor-Mor. In same store saw THE SENSE-TENSE GAME. The board has a 16 x 16 field with a word printed (so that it can be seen from all sides) in each space. The rows and columns are numbered in red and blue. Discs with the numbers in the two colors are provided. Players draw 7 of each color and try to form the highest scoring sentence using words at the intersections. Didn't get all the details but it seemed quite dull.

At "The Game Room," which is going out of business, bought 3 packages of PERRYGONS at $1.00 each. Claude bought the remaining 2. He had previously bought a set for $3.00.

At the University store bought HOT SPOTS for $5.95 + 30¢ tax.

At the library looked at DIV-A-LET, DIVISION BY LETTERS by William Henry Vail (The Revell Co. Press 1909). These are long divisions substituting letters for numbers, using a 10-letter word to set up the substitutions. (I'm sure I saw this before.)

Another book HANDBOOK OF GAMES AND SIMULATION EXERCISES, edited by G.I. Gibbs (London, 1974) was in a different bldg. so I didn't get a chance to look at it.

Rcd. a letter from Willard Allphin. He thanked me for giving his name to Ralph Anspach. Enclosed a carbon of a letter he sent to David Pritchard. Also a repro of his article in G&P.

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