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10 Wednesday - December 1975
344th day - 21 days to come

Had an idea for a game I can probably get away with call- ing DICKENS. On a hexagonal field players take turns placing one letter. Each tries to form words in one of the 6 directions, and up to 6 can play. In placing a letter, a player must make a word in at least one direc- tion - not necessarily his own. Score for longest word in each row as follows: 2-1, 3-2, 4-4, 5-7, 6-10, 7-15, 8-20, 9-25.
Later thinking of some variations. 1) Letters can be skipped in determining a word. 2) Players write their letters in their own color. Players score bonuses for each letter in a word that is not their own color - but not more than 1 for a two-letter word and 2 for a three- letter word, and only if all of the letters are not his own color for these two cases. BB suggested the name CARROLL for SUPERGHOSTS.
To S.P.I. Gave my column to Redmund. Made repros- 6 each - of JOYCE, POE, and O. HENRY. Made a copy of the 3M letter to give to Felicia, without the company to which it was addressed. Howie Barasch gave me a letter from Jack J. Jaffe, who is a fan of my column - in England. He enclosed info on two games he published - PERSONA and LIBIDO. Will send review copies if I want. He also wants me to be an honorary V.P. of "SIGMA" - an organization he is trying to set up.
To Felicia. Gave her the 3M letter. After some discussion we agreed that she would write to May asking what's doing - and send a carbon to Keith Tuggle. She mentioned it to Herb Roth and he was surprised that Crisloid didn't get a letter. He'd love them to take the 3M line so that he could sell it.