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there is no commercial possibilities. He'll mail it to me
there is no commercial possibilities. He'll mail it to me
anyway. Gave him my address.
anyway. Gave him my address.
<br>Call from <u>Claude</u>. Date Friday. In an antique store where he looks
for post cards he found a box with <u>KARDOLLETTE</u> (a gambling
game) and <u>CUKU BRIDGE</u> (which he didn't think looked much like
<u>BRIDGE</u>) 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 <u>NILE</u> Sunday. He said that he has been
seeing it around. Told him that if he sees <u>TANGLE</u> for under
$3.00 I'd appreciate if he picks it up (for <u>S.K. Howard</u>).
<br>Played my new <u>ANAGRAMS variation</u> 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
<br>(cont. on 8/22)