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August 1975 - Saturday 23
235th day - 130 days to come

Rcd. a letter, thru Random House, from an AGOG reader who wanted my opinion on APBA BASEBALL.
Looking at various equipment and finally came up with flat green bea "curtain" beads for MANCALA and fairly small buttons for MILL. For THE FAMILY CREATIVE WORKSHOP.
To a number of "garage sales" and "tag sales" in Yonkers. Bought:
- Bag of marbles - 25¢.
- String of beads - 10¢. Cut them up but too small for MANCALA. draft Design kit from Hasbro with wooden pcs. and plastic 10x13 "board." - 25¢
- KWAZY QUILT puzzle - 10¢. (Phil and I solved it.)
- NILE - 75¢. All tiles there (using a spare). 1 rack missing.
- 500 sheets of 8 lb. "Sphinx" paper. - $1.00.
- 50 pen nibs - $1.00
- Book "Physics - Fundamental and Frontiers" - for reference if I ever do a book on science games.
Made a set of 200 ANAGRAMS - but may have made them too sloppy.
Thinking of an additional game. Each player takes 15 tiles at random. They are formed into X-word patterns. Words score: 2 letters - 2 pts, 3 - 3 pts., 4 - 4pts., 5 - 15 pts., 6 - 16 pts., etc. Each letter unused counts -5, except a "Q" without an "U." Players can take - 1 at a time - up to 10 additional tiles. ANAGRAMS VARIATION.

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glad to look at and evaluate the game, but I am afraid that there is no commercial possibilities. He'll mail it to me anyway. Gave him my address.
Call from Claude. Date Friday. In an antique store where he looks for post cards he found a box with KARDOLLETTE (a gambling game) and CUKU BRIDGE (which he didn't think looked much like BRIDGE) by "Kardollette" Co., N.Y., @1931-32. I asked and the price was $3.50. Asked him to pick it up for me if it is still there next time he is in the store. Mentioned that I bought NILE Sunday. He said that he has been seeing it around. Told him that if he sees TANGLE for under $3.00 I'd appreciate if he picks it up (for S.K. Howard).
Played my new ANAGRAMS variation with BB. (It really is not Anagrams at all.) The idea of optional additional tiles didn't work out. There is too strong a tendacy [sic] to take all that is allow- able. Finally decided to use 20 tiles. Also simplified the scoring to 1 point for each letter used in two directions. I'll probably change the number of tiles to sets of about 100 and let people make as
(cont. on 8/22)

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