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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.