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July 1975 - Sunday 20
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost - 201st day - 164 days to come

Played DARN CLEVER with BB, allowing one line by each of us: Played three times and it worked very well, I'll have to send it as a variation to Mr. Rodimach. If they accept the game and use this variation I'll give Phil Laurence a percentage.
In connection with MASTERMIND, I checked to see how close it was to JOTTO. JOTTO doesn't differentiate between a "hit" in the same position and one in a different position. However, in the '69 [1969] diary came across NODDLE which has exactly the same rules, using digits instead of colors.

(cont. from 7/19) [7/19]

said that I owe my family more than I owe Felicia. Then he said that he should lecture me when he learns how to handle Wald and Wexler. Made date for next Friday.

(cont. from 7/15) [7/18]

continue until one of the options is actually used. Also as part of his turn a player can use a number card to see if it is the correct number - the first number of the combination is first found in this way, then the second and finally the third. After all three numbers are discovered when a player collects 3 corresponding number cards and c he claims the inheritance. He must reach his space by moving around the board (the lawyer and servant can reach it by a backward move that lands them in their space - since they only have 3 and 2 spaces).
There wasn't any incentive to try a combination number so Wald gave another card taken from the board for using one and 2 for the first card a player gets in a search for a number. After the first number is found all cards used by the players are returned to the board, etc.
I found the game messy and uncomfortable and didn't make use of the safe gimmick sufficiently. I suggested that if a player gets one number correct he can continue with the next and then if correct again with the 3rd. Wald thought this was great.
(This is not a complete description of the game - but enough to give a good idea. It needs a lot more work.)
Claude gave me a copy of FEDS 'N HEADS (from Playboy Mag. [magazine] I believe). This is a duplicate for me.
[started 7/18]

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