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10 Sunday - August 1975
<br>Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost - 222nd day - 143 days to come
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In rearranging books on the upstairs shelves (for the holding piles
downstairs) discovered that the book <u>CHESSMEN</u> I bought on 2/28
was a duplicate.
<br>Thought of the mechanism for <u>QUICK TRAP</u> (see 8/7). 12 cities
are located on the board, connected with paths made
up of circle in 4 different colors - in random order but with
equal numbers of each color. 2 to 4 play, using markers of
the same 4 colors. A set of 24 cards is used with the tour
colors arranged in all possible arrangements - and numbered
from "1" to "4" next to the colors. Another set of 12 cards
have the city names. Incidentally, on the board each city
is also marked with one of the four colors.
<br>The players each take a city card and place their marker in
that city. Then the city cards are reshuffled and placed face
down next to the board - next to numbers from 1 to 12. As
many cards, starting with 1, as there are players in the game
are turned face up. Players try to be the first to reach a
city with a face up card. The first collects points correspond-
ing with the number next to the card, and the card is removed
from the game. As soon as a card is won, a new one is faced-
up to the &#35;12.
<br>The set of 24 cards are used for moving. Each player is dealt
2. On his turn the player moves the number of spaces next
to the color his marker is on at the start of the move - using
either card. He then draws another card-discarding the one
used. If he ends on a space of the same color as his marker,
he moves again. A player must enter a city by exact count.
If both cards would bring him passed, he instead backs up the
number on the card used.
<br>As an alternate way of moving - with less luck - a player
chooses 2 cards at the start of the game and uses those
two cards for the entire game.
<br>Wrote to manufacturers of <u>1829</u>. Enclosed copies of my columns in
<u>S & T</u>, &#35;48 and &#35;50. Mentioned <u>KINGMAKER</u>.
<br>Wrote to "Siera Enterprises" asking for a review copy of <u>ASTRO-CHESS</u>.
Enclosed copies of my columns in <u>S & T</u> &#35;48 and &#35;50.
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(cont. from 8/11) [8/11]
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Call from <u>Felicia</u>. Told her I had the column for Daisy all worked
out and I just wanted to be sure about my rights to use the mater-
ial in a book, etc. She called the editor and then called me back -
no problem. She has a date for next Tues. and would like to
bring it. Told her I'd have it - probably by this Thurs.
Started writing the article on <u>CHECKERS VARIATIONS</u>. Called it
"Let's Play a New Game."