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MAY 1975 - SATURDAY 31
151ST DAY - 214 DAYS TO COME

Stopped at Sel-Right (Rte. 4 & 17) while BB bought a present. Nothing new in games.

Laurences here in evening. Didn't play any games.

(cont. from 6/4) [6/5]

mail them to me. Ed wants them back by the beginning of July.

Rcd. a letter from Roger Verhulst. He has left games, for the foreseeable future. Enclosed the following columns: Chicago Tribune CHICAGO TRIBUNE - (4/19/74) BRIDGETTE, CRESCENDO CHESS, PATTON by me, NAVAL GAME by Alan Calhamer with a mention of DIPLOMACY, PIT. (5/17/74) 1776 [A.H.] [Avalon Hill]. (7/12/74) STRAT-O-MATIC BASEBALL (7/26/74) JURISPRUDENCE, (11/1/74) BIGWIG (11/22/74) PRO DRAFT, ABC MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, THINKING MAN'S FOOTBALL, CHALLENGE FOOTBALL, COLLEGE FOOTBALL, STRAT-O-MATIC PRO FOOTBALL, T.H.E. PRO FOOTBALL GAME. (11/29/74) THE MONOPOLY BOOK, MONOPOLY mention, ANTI-MONOPOLY with Ralph Anspach mention. (12/13/74) GO, BRIDGETTE, 1776 [A.H.], THIRD REICH, JURISPRUDENCE, BIGWIG, BASKETBALL STRATEGY, FRENCH CHATTER, THE INVENTORS, GRAND RAPIDS PRESS - WIN, PLACE & SHOW (4/21/74). (5/5/74) CRESCENDO CHESS, STRATO CHECKERS, CHESS DICE. (3/24/74) PIT. (6/2/74) Deluxe MONOPOLY.

Rcd. SIGNAL #80. Mentions of HSIANG CH'I: THE CHINESE GAME OF CHESS, MACHIEVAL (Wargames Research Group); SSN, MISSLE PATROL BOAT, THE RUSSIAN-JAPANESE WAR, MARENGO, 1870: THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN, WORLD WAR I, MARITA-MERKUR, SPANISH CIVIL WAR, IMPERIUM, STREET WITHOUT JOY, NANAWA (GDW); MARCHING TO RICHMOND, AFRIKARDS (David Watts).

Call from Claude. Hasbro contacted Wald. They have a "gimmick" and want a GAME to go with it in 8 days. They gave him $4,000 as a start and $4,000 more if they like what he comes up with. Wald is not cutting Claude in unless he can't do it himself. The gimmick is a safe that can be reset without anyone knowing the combination. If the wrong combination is tried an alarm goes off.
[Started 6/5]