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Philpott is preparing a definitive book on <s>combatorial</s> "Combinatorial
Philpott is preparing a definitive book on <s>combatorial</s> "Combinatorial
Mathematics."
Mathematics."
<br>Martin told me that he received a game from England - <u>ADVICE</u> - which
he will give to me. Told him that I had heard about it and he
thought that the rock-paper-scissors idea was interesting.
<br>Don't remember how it came up but Martin started telling me about
an idea he had many years ago for a 3-D game. There are two floors
with a stair between them. It can be folded up and then opened.
He has lost the model but can reproduce it. As a theme he thought of
a family of ghosts fighting a human family for <s>the house</s> possession
of the house. He called it <u>GHOSTS</u>.
<br>He tried to interest a manufacturer in it without success. Then
he saw <u>WHICH WITCH?</u> which also uses a 3-D house. <s>He ne</s>
<br>He never worked out the rules of play and suggested that may-
be I'd like to work on it, offering the idea to me. I said that I'd
like to work on it together with him, and he said maybe we'll get
together when he gets back from a holiday visit to Tulsa.
<br>At a bazaar in Queens bought 5 rolls of masking tape for $1. Not
very good quality.
<br><u>Dave Horn</u> showed me a book that Susan was using in her student
teaching: <u>MATHEMATICS - A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE</u> by Harold R. Jacobs.
It is published by W. H. Freeman & <u>Martin Gardner</u> did the intro-
duction. There is a great deal of use of recreational math in
the book.
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now that X'mas [Christmas] was coming.
<br>Looked at <u>SHOPPING</u> (© 1973 John Ladell Co., Inc., Canton Miss.)
Each player gets a shopping list and enough "Purchase
cards" to by half of them; each item takes one purchase
card. Players must earn extra purchase cards - by landing
on lucky spaces. The board shows various stores and <s>the</s>
each item can be bought in several stores. If a player
passes the police station (which is also on the board with
various other spaces) without a "meter validation" he suf-
fers some kind of a penalty. (Fairly rough idea.)
<br>Looked at <u>O-SHLEMIEL!</u> It is a regular deck of cards but
each card also has a letter. A number of games are given -
none very original. One - I remember - was a <u>RUMMY</u>
type with sequences of letter and also words allowed as
melds. It was expensive - $5 a deck - and John suggested my getting
a review copy.
<br>{Originals Only
<br>15 W. 44 St.
<br>New York, N.Y. 10036
<br>(cont. on 11/19)