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7/4
11 Friday - July 1975
192 day - 173 days to come

Called Harry Lorayne. Not in but left message for him to call. He did, and he had just been talking to Bob Reiss. Reiss wants the faces tied to names rather than profession. He also told Harry that it would be much cheaper for them to make a rectangular board with 15 pockets. This is no problem for the other games, but makes separate row for faces and names impossible. I suggested transparent cards with names on them to be placed in the pocked first and then cardboards with faces on both sides over them. There was a question of whether the plastic could be perforated to tear apart. Then I thought of cardboard with holes so that the faces would show through.
We agreed that Harry would call Reiss and tell him. If there is any problem or question, he'll tell Reiss to call me.
Harry wanted a game that would emphasize the "Link" and was thinking of having the players spin and the highest spinner can pick a row or a diagonal (when it was a 4 x 4) and call off all of the objects in that row or diagonal. He didn't think it would work, but I said why not. Diagonals wouldn't work out, but a row of 5 could be worth more than a row of 3. I finally came up with players in turn choosing a row to identify. As the game professes a row will be chosen that crosses one already faced. I suggested scoring the square of the number of objects actually identified, which Harry liked.

Call from Dave Greenwald with more on his effort to place TREFFLES. John Stephenson will try to place it with Intellect - some of the people from England are here for the summer. He wants 35% agent fee.
He is going to see Alice McElhone (I believe again) today. He asked me about the "Two Game Girls." Told him that I knew them. Alice had told him that they had sold Parker without an agent. I told him that they were agent types themself. Told him about HANNIBAL, THE OLD SHELL GAME, and OPTILE.

Call from Jogn Stephenson. He is preparing a catalog and would like a mailing list from me. Told him that I had from 100 to 200 names. He'd like them by beginning of Sept. and the more the better.
He said ACQUIRE would be in the catalog and probably TOTALLY. He thinks that the latter might do well in the mail order, but store buyers don't think it is worth $5.95. I asked about SLEUTH and he doesn't think it will be available from 3M. I asked about EXECUTIVE DECISION and he said he has been getting complaints on it - too much writing.
Gave him Don Miller's address as a possible mailing list source. Rcd. [received] short letter from Dick Harris saying he had sent the games I requested under separate cover. He'd like to see my reviews. He didn't include the list prices.

Rcd. THE GAMESLETTER. Ad by Dean Abel asking for the rules of RIBBIT and TABLUT. Article on GO (from NOST-ALGIA #93).
(cont. on 7/4)

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