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19 Sunday - October 1975
<br>Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost - 292nd day - 73 days to come
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Sent in the "Reader Service Card" from Oct. <u>PLAYTHINGS</u> for info on
<u>MERCY</u> and Classic Games Catalog.
<br>Got the game diary caught up again.
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(cont. from 10/23) [10/23]
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contact at Simon & Schuster and she wondered if I'd have time to work
on something for them. I said that I'd be happy to talk to her
editor contact and that if something interesting came of it I'd
find the time.
<br>She also has a contact at Dover, but I told her that they don't pay
royalties - and the flat fees are very flat. She said that she'd for-
get about them.
<br>She brought up Ace again and that the editor wants more
books like those the <u>Scotts</u> (see 6/11). I said that I haven't had a
chance to get their books, but that I would try to get to it.
(Later found that I had <u>FUN & GAMES WITH CARDS</u>.)
<br>Felicia showed me a book of color pictures of games by
<u>George Bredehorn</u>. Among them were <u>TRI-ACTION</u>, <u>KOO KOO KONSTRUCTIONS</u>,
<u>CAN DO</u>, <u>UP THE CHUTE</u>, <u>ODDS ON</u>. They are all action type - and
very expensive. <u>ODDS ON</u> (I believe) is a verticle [sic] board with dif-
ferent mountings forming paths. Certain junctions can be changed
and after they are set up players bet on where balls released at
the top will land.
<br>She showed me a game <u>CLICHÉS</u> by <u>Rolf Myller</u>. There are some
thirty "clichés" which are separated into words (some words are
duplicated in different clichés). These are on cards which are
turned face down. Each player takes 10 on his own board and
20 are faced on a central board; (The cards are some kind of a
new magnetic substance that keeps them in place.) If a player
has two or more parts of a cliché he puts them from
the storage part of his board to another area for finished
clichés and can take parts from the central board after this.
When a player puts as many parts as he can onto his board
he refills his storage area to 10 and the central board to 20.
If two players both have the parts to start a cliché, the one
with less letters in his parts must return them to the pool.
The game ends when one player completes all of the clichés he
started, the game ends. Players score for the length of their
clichés (unfinished ones too?) (Rough idea.) Told Felicia it
seems very pedestrian.
<br>Rolf has 9 other <s>game</s> <u>GAME</u>S, but <u>CLICHÉS</u> was the only one
she felt was even worth considering. One is called <u>FANTASEX</u>, after
the book Rolf wrote for Grosset & Dunlap (under the pseudonym
Rolf Milonas and it is has already sold 15,000). It is really not a
<s>book</s> game in my context - and the book is needed to "play"
the game. <u>Herb Roth</u> is interested in producing the game if the
book continues doing well.
<br>(cont. on 10/22)