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October 1975 - Saturday 18
<br>St. Luke, Evangelist - 291st day - 74 days to come
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To Bloomingdale's to plug <u>BEYOND TIC TAC TOE</u>. <u>Barbara Weinstein</u>
was quite helpful and the children - all boys for the first per-
formance and all girls for the second - were a delight. I signed one
book for two boys and another for <u>Jean Green</u>.
<br>Thinking of another deductive word <u>GAME</u>. Players try to be the
first to discover the opponent's word by getting
information on how many letters are before
or after <s>the</s> a chosen letter or between two
chosen letters. In the basic game a player
must say if there is a double letter in his word.
In the advanced game-not.
<br>[to the side of previous paragraph]
<br>BEFORE [square] -- [circle]
<br>AFTER [square] -- [circle]
<br>BETWEEN [square][square] -- [circle]
<br>BEFORE [square] -- [circle]
<br>Rcd. letter from <u>Violet I. Gunther</u> offering me 5 sheets with
black and white pictures of old and exotic cards - from <u>LESLIE'S</u>
mag. $5.00.
<br>At a bazaar at County Center bought a beaded "necktie" for 25¢.
Broke it down into a lot of small red, white, and blue beads.
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(cont. from 10/17) [10/17]
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and finally the designated ball - splitting it apart (it is hinged).
<br>(Fairly complete idea.)
<br>At same store they had a lot of <u>TOTALLY</u> and <u>BARRIER</u> and a
few <u>TRIPPPLES</u>.
<br>At Claude's noticed a game <u>TRIPTIC</u> (which was the same as
<u>TRI-TAC-TOE</u>). Claude asked me to take it just to get it out of
his way. (Actually the post for constructing the field are
missing.)
<br>Payed Claude $2 for the copy of <u>QUIEN SABÉ</u>. (Parker 1906).
Claude had a letter from <u>Phil Cohen</u> asking for his <s>desicision</s> decision
on a player who can't move in <u>LOA</u>. Phil said it is his second fav-
orite game - after <u>GO</u>. He has played it <s>a 6x6</s> on a 6x6 and on a
19x19 field. He has played 3-hand <u>HEXALOA</u>. And he has an idea
for a variation <u>STACKING LOA</u>. A player can land on one or more of
his own pcs. - forming a stack. All pcs. in a stack are counted in
the line of movement. Pcs. are moved from a stack one at a time.
<br>In morning worked on a diagram for <u>WORD RACE</u>. (Yesterday I played
around with one circuit. Seems O.K.)
<br>At <u>Claude</u>'s he showed me some of his <u>DIABOLIC SQUARES</u> puzzles. I
found them rather easy, even the one he said was very hard - he didn't
tell me which numbers to use or the required total. He said he could
come up with some harder ones.
<br>Looked at the book - <u>THE EXECUTIVE STRATEGIST</u> and decided that
I wanted to buy a copy.