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DECEMBER 1975 - THURSDAY 11
345TH DAY - 20 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. THE CONTRACTING GAME. Also a letter from the publisher.
(Kept this & my original letter to them in the box.)

Wrote to "Eagle Games Ltd." requesting review copies of BATTLECRUISER,
GAR - RAROUK, STARFIRE, and RUSSIAN BRIDGE. Mentioned SIGNAL.

Thinking about DICKENS. Decided to change scoring as follows: 2-1,
3-2, 4-4, 5-6, 6-8, 7-10, 8-12, 9-15. Also some ideas for variations.
1) In a line, one or more letters that are between letters used
can be dropped.
2) Each player uses a different color to write his letters. For each
word scored the player gets a bonus depending on the number of
letters not of his own color. Later thought of the idea of the
bonus being the score for a word of the length of the number
of letters not the player's own.
Started a diagram.