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10/20 [3 dates crossed out]
21 Tuesday - October 1975
294th day - 71 days to come

Rcd. G&P no. 42. "Games Centre" adds the following games to the listing they gave last month: CAMPAIGN, CAREERS, CHALLENGE GOLF, COPPIT, CUL-DE-SAC, ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ, FLUTTER, HALMA, HEX, HIDE & SQUEAK, HOME YOU GO, HOPPIT, KGB, LEXICON, MASCO, MASTER PIECE, MEDITERRANEAN, MOVIEMAKER, ON-SETS, O.R.B.I.T., PAGODA, PIT, PUSHOVER, QUANDARY, QUANTUM, RATRACE, RISK, SCRABBLE, SNIFTY SNAKES, SPELLMASTER, SQUASH, SUPERSALE, TRAFALGAR. Article on HANAFUDA (by R.C. Bell). Article on DOMINOES with description of SOLO and mention of GINGO, LOO, and FORTY-TWO (all played with dominoes). Ad for THE WAY TO PLAY. Announcement of a MASTER MIND contest. "Patterns in Space - Part III" by Marc Odier. Ad for ADVICE (by Inquot Ltd.). Ad for TRIPPPLES, INTERSECTION, TOTALLY, PUSHOVER, BARRIER, and BALI (Aladdin). Gamesviews of TRIPPPLES, EMPAMINONDAS, BRANDRETH'S BOOK OF WAITING GAMES, and THE WAY TO PLAY. CHESS features. Forum letters on THE L-GAME, TAFL, PHYSOGS - by John Watson of Waddingtons - with mentioned of G.H.Q. and MILESTONES. Centerfold ad by Waddingtons for: HOPPIT!, KGB, TREASURY OF WORD GAMES, ULCERS, CAMPAIGN, GAME OF NATIONS, RATRACE, 4000 A.D., SPECULATE, BUSINESS GAME, TOTOPOLY, MONOPOLY, CLUEDO, GOLFWINKS, FORMULA 1, THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME, SAFARI ROUND UP, TABLE SOCCER, CHESSWORD. Ad for REVERSI (Spear's). Discussion of "Figures" with LIFE (Conway) and other things. Ad for THOUGHTWAVE. "Just Games" ad for DIPLOMACY, KINGMAKER, STRATEGY, CONFRONTATION, and THE L GAME. DIPLOMACY article by Allan Calhamer. Ad for 1829. Two "Reader's Games" - CROSSO and CHAINS. BLACK SQUARES - "a game you haven't played before." Small ad for "Gamart Games Manual" - a compre- hensive guide to 500 + games available in G.B. Ad for a new game company - "Lazy Days" - and their eight games: O.R.B.I.T., SPAGHETTI JUNCTION, HIDE & SQUEAK, SUPER SALE, QUANTUM, CUL-DE-SAC, TRACKGAMMON, and MANCALA. Also enclosed - IT'S GAME TIME! (no. 1).
Finished rewriting THE HARRY LORAYNE MEMORY GAME. Called Jay Peterson and made date for Thurs. at 1. He'll see Harry Lorayne later.
Going over the material for THE FAMILY CREATIVE WORKSHOP. Some points will have to be discussed. Called Marilyn Nierenberg and set up date for Thurs. at 11.
Played the deductive word GAME with BB - twice. Good. Later thought of the name ABC D-DUCTION.
Call from Phil Orbanes. He asked if the name SMASH has been used for a game. Checked the Directories and it isn't there. Didn't ask, and Phil didn't give me any info on what he has in mind. Later checked my diaries and couldn't find any entries.

In G&P David Parlett describes Indian cards and describes a game HAMRANG and mentions another game EKRANG.
(cont. on 10/20)

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