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11 Saturday - October 1975
284th day - 81 days to come

Rcd. EUROPA 10/11. Capsule biographies of Richard Berg and others. Review of SIGMA FILE. Tables listing KINGMAKER info and considerable discussion. 1829 - THE RAILWAY GAME discussion. PARLIAMENT description. MONOPOLY with suggestions for "insurance", "annuities", etc. THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY GAME description and mention of PANZER DIVISION EASTERN FRONT BATTLES by the same inventor/publisher. BLOCUS description. LEVELER CHESS description. CHECKMATE description. Short notes on CONQUEST, MASTERMIND, MINI-MASTER MIND, MASTERMIND DELUXE, MASTERMIND DELUXE ROYALE, PETROPOLIS, NORTH SEA OIL, KING OIL, OIL DEPOTS BRITISH ISLES (Watts), RAILWAY RIVALS. Discussion of his company by Dave G. Watts. Listing of about 180 DIPLOMACY variants (World Variant Bank, European Branch). Description of 1829 (Yee) a very elaborate DIPLOMACY variant - in real time. Science Fiction listing of DUNGEON!, EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE; THE STRATEGIC REVIEW, THE SPACE GAMER, THE SPANG BLAH, and SUPERNOVA (Mags.); EN GARDE, SORCERER (SPI), STARSHIP TROOPER (AH). Long discussions of RED STAR/WHITE STAR, FRANCE 1940, 3RD REICH. Advance discussion of MODERN BATTLES Quad. Jack Greene's column with mentions of THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939 (Jagdpanther), GLOBAL WAR, ALEXANDER THE GREAT (A.H.), CRIMEA (GDW), "GDW-News" on THE FALL OF TOBRUK, THEIR FINEST HOUR, RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN, MISSILE PATROL BOAT, EN GARDE. Long discussions of TORGAU (GDW), TOBRUK (AH) - with mentions of BATTLES FOR TOBRUK (Balboa) and THE FALL OF TOBRUK (Conflict), DREADNOUGHT - with comparisons to CA. Discussions of Taurus and their RAIDERS OF THE NORTH, UNDERSEA WARRIORS, and BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC. Some short mixed-up, mentions (Cheesehole News) including BEYOND TIC TAC TOE (but without "Beyond"). Readers are looking for, among other things, the expansion kit for CONFRONTATION [Orbanes] and a copy of ASSASSIN.
Call from Claude while I was out and I called back. He was checking whether I had a game QUIEN SABÉ (P. 1906). He took a chance & bought it for $2. (I saw it at P. but don't have it.)
He bought THE EXECUTIVE STRATEGIST at B&N bargain store for $1.00. Sounded interesting and he said that there were a pile there.
He asked if I could be his agent for selling a book on his DIABOLIC SQUARES. These are "Magic Squares" but he has added colors to the number tiles and patterns are formed, which change as the various transpositions of the numbers are made. Since Pantheon has published a book on mazes using colors, this seems a natural follow-up. Offered to introduce him to Fabio Coen. He insists on my getting 10%.
POST had an article on society bigwigs playing PETROPOLIS. It is on sale at Sachs [sic] 5th Ave.

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