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December 1975 - Wednesday 3
St. Francis Xavier - 337th day - 28 days to come

Got an idea for a game TOLSTOY. A field of letters is printed, with some empty spaces to be filled in by the "Russian" player. The "French" player invades by forming a word. The Russian then forms a word to use up spaces so as to stop the invader from reaching high score "cities." A word either player forms can be a maximum of one letter long- er than the previous word by the player, and the first word by each player is a maximum of 3 letters long. The invader has the priviledge [sic] of changing one letter to any other he wishes on each of his turns. (To be worked out.)
Call from Stan of Athol. He was going over my rules for THE GAME CUBE and had a few questions - on places where I slipped and used the wrong word. I asked if the game rules were clear. He said that he was just looking for outright errors, but that it seemed clear.
Call S.P.I. to tell Redmund that I couldn't get my column in until next Tues. or Weds. Redmund not in and I was connected to Kevin Zucker. Asked to have Redmund call me if he couldn't live with this.
Was connected to Howie Barasch and he said there was a game, IN$URANCE, for me. The address was "Shriver Insurance Agency", 1350 W. Northwest Highway, P.O. Box J, Mount Prospect, Ill.
Rcd. a copy of a game CURTAINS by Maureen Moran. Also a letter from her, mentioning AGOG, EXECUTIVE DECISION, SLEUTH.
Looked at magazine section from last Sunday's Times. Ads for THE CONTRACTING GAME and CARD CHES. In book review section saw Pantheon ad for THE GREAT MAZE BOOK and THE SECOND GREAT MAZE BOOK.
Call from Claude. Told him of date with Fabio Coen on 12/17. He'll have some mat'l [material] from DIABOLIC SQUARES for me to show Fabio.
Made tentative date for his house on 12/13.
Rcd. 3rd quarter royalty report on REALM and SIX PACK --. Advance not made up.

(cont. from 12/4) [12/4]

send me his address.
Horn feels that rules for games, both mass market and simu- lations, don't give the flavor of the game. He thinks that they should be written in much greater style and length and then in codified form for reference.
I told him that I try to make my rules more readable, but that the manufacturers cut them to the bone, some- times making them ununderstandable. He was surprised that manufacturers don't give inventors a final look at the rules before publication.
The third edition of THE GUIDE TO SIMULATIONS/GAMES FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
(cont. on 12/2)

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