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11 Thursday - September 1975
254th day - 111 day to come

Card from S.K. Howard. He came across an old copy of a game BEAT THE MARKET and wondered if it was the one we have been talking about. No, it is by Clever Games, not by Kribs.
Rcd. a letter that had been sent to Pantheon. It was to ALTAIR DESIGN, not to me.
Rcd. a letter from Steve Wilson. Thanks me for THE 6 PACK ---; has played FINANCIER, PAY OFF, and OIL STRIKE; asks about SPY; won't play THE GREAT RACES since they prefer SOLITAIRE DICE. He has joined NOST and lost two games of LAP to Phil Cohen. Also mentions KNIGHT CHASE, Martin Gardner, and AGOG. Mentions picking up out of print games in small towns: PSYCHE-PATH (with a reference to this and VECTOR being in the Cuisenair Catalog), BOUNDARY, LINK-UP, and CITADEL (which he offered to send me). Asks about my creativity, mentioning S&T, THE 6 PACK---, REALM, FITTING & PROPER, THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS, SLEUTH, MONAD, VENTURE, BEYOND TIC TAC TOE. His new efforts are DOUBLE JUMP - using two SOLITAIRE boards and an unnamed GAME using the RELATE equipment,
Call from Earl and I invited him here for supper. Nothing on games ex- cept that Parker returned DON'T BLOW A FUSE after keeping it about 6 months. Schaper wrote that they weren't interested. And he keeps calling Jules Cooper but he never calls back.
Wrote to Marek Penszko. Mentioned PROBLEMY, Lech Pijanowski, FOOTBALL, Martin Gardner; MINI-KRZYZOWKA, WIROWKA, KRATKOWNICA, HARCABY, MURY, NAKRYWANKA; AGOG.

(cont. from 9/16) [9/16]

him about what transpired.
The rules for SLY will be coming from Amway in a day or so and he'll send them to me to check. We should get the rest of our money by the end of Oct.
He asked me who the man in charge was at 3M. I asked why he wanted this and he said that is a confidential project that might - but probably wouldn't - be attempted with either (or is it all?) 3M, M.B., or P. Told him Keith Juggle was in nominal charge.
I asked if I could get another 6 packages of THE 6 PACK---. Yes, just pick them up.
2nd call from Phil Orbanes. He is working on a game based on solving codes - a children's level game, from (I believe) an idea some- one brought to him. He asked if anything has been done. I remembered one but couldn't recollect the name. After talking about it he said THE CIPHER FILE, which he has a copy of - and his idea is different.
(cont. on 9/10)