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1 Wednesday - October 1975
Missouri Day (MO.) - 274th day - 91 days to come

Letter from manufacturer of 1829. Mentioned KINGMAKER. They will not try to sell in U.S. until next season. Will send me first revue copy they send over.
Rcd. a copy of BONEHEAD from Jerry D'Arcey (& Michael wanted it).
Sent a copy of my S&T no. 51 column to Paul Belford. (see 9/29.)
Call from Art Tuite. When he was in Rochester (I believe) he had something to do with a rep columnist who might contact me on doing a column on my collection - John Czarnecki. Art's number thru the end of Oct. is [phone number]
Call from Claude. Cooper Union has an elementary course in "Commercial Art" starting tomorrow. It cost $15 for 10 weeks. Claude is going and asked me to join him. Would like to, but too short notice.
Looking at THE WAY TO PLAY. They claim more than 2000 games. A few that are a little new to me: ASHTA-KASHTE, ALLEYWAY, HORSESHOE, PLAKATO, GIOUL, CHINESE REBELS, RINGO, CHECKERS GO-MOKU, CONQUEST, BRAX, HALMA SOLITAIRE.
Working on game diary good part of day.
Some ideas for word games for a book - possible name WORDS FOR THE WISE (altho Phil Orbanes suggested this for his game that was called WORDPLAY - see '73)
WORD RACE: Have 4 tracks of - say - 60 spaces each. Certain spaces are marked in each track and at the start the alphabet is filled into these marked spaces - except that only one is picked from "Qx2" - in a random manner; or one player can set them up for another. Players starting at a starting line, fill in words as long a they can, using the previously spaced placed letters and also those from previous words, if they wish. First to return to the start wins.
GAME: Each player chooses words that add up to - say - 20 letters and write them haphazardly. The other player(s) tries to come up with words that use all the letters one time. (This probably won't be suitable, since it can be played on any piece of paper.)
GAME: Letters are filled into the boxes on a field as shown (or some can be printed, leaving only part of the spaces to be filled by the players). Players in turn connect the boxes to form a word. A box can only be used once and lines can't be crossed. Last to form a word wins. As a variation, 3 lines can be al- lowed at each box.
[drawing of square board with 6 x 6 rows of smaller squares inside]

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