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21 Wednesday - April 1976
112th Day - 245 Days to Come

Made rough model lottery gadget for THE WINNING TICKET. Worked O.K.

Rcd. "Publishers Central Bureau" catalog. Noted the following (but none that I want to buy: THE GAME OF WORDS. By W.R. Espy. Verse, puus, clerihews, acrostics - a superb collection of word play and word games - with a delightful selection ranging from epitaphs to anagrams, palindromes, cryptograms, epigrams, euphenisums, franglish, malapropisms, rebuses, more. Orig. Pub. [originally published] at $6.45. Only $2.98.
THE OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS HANDBOOK. $4.95.
COLLECTING PLAYING CARDS by S. Mann. $1.00 (which Dave Greenwald wanted.)
AN ALMANAC OF WORDS AT PLAY. By W.R. Espy. Illus. [illustrations] throughout. A veritable three ring circus of words with page after page of some of the funniest verses in English, a treasure of acronyms, palindromes, anagrams, rebuses, univocalics and wordplay of every stripe. Softbound. Only $6.95.
Letter from an AGOG fan who wants a copy. Mentions LINES OF ACTION and getting a present of BEYOND TIC-TAC-TOE. Ken Indeck.

Call from Phil Orbanes. Told him that I was processing nicely on THE WINNING TICKET but no breakthru yet on CONVOY. He said that they will be doing only a very few games and he has gotten Jules Cooper interested in THE WINNING TICKET. For one thing, most of the games under consideration are for children while mine is good for adults too. Also drop CONVOY for now.
Phil asked if I have RED BARBER'S BASEBALL GAME. Yes. A fellow worker played it as a kid and would love a copy. We'll get repros [reproductions].
He wants repros of the rules for RIO, KIMBO, WIDE WORLD TRAVEL GAME, TELL IT TO THE JUDGE, and BUILDING BOOM.
Phil saw a copy of TELL IT TO THE JUDGE at "Speakeasy Antiques" - quite expensive so Phil didn't get it. He did get a copy of RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE GAME, which is of interest because Grace Kelley backed it. He'll bring it Saturday to show it to me.
He asked if I knew anything about 5 WISE BIRDS which is mentioned in FAMILY FUN AND POPULAR PARTIES WITH FAMOUS PARKER GAMES as a sports game. No (but later I recollected a target game with birds on a perch).
Phil and Anna played ASTRON. It was quite simple and mainly luck.
He mentioned that he still can't get THE SKY'S THE LIMIT right. I said that I'd like to get together and work on it with him. Among other possible ideas, charge more for higher stories and for putting up more than one in a turn. He'll bring it Saturday.

Call from Felicia, mainly to talk about the Scotts. They are anxious to see my collection but I held off with an invite until I do some catching up.

Called Martin Gardner. Spoke to his son, Tom, and said that I just called to say thanks for the game and book Martin sent me. Also to check on Martin's mother; she died.

Call from Claude. Changed our tentative date for the Friday to a definite next week, When I mentioned seeing a game collector (Ronnie Corn) he said he has to clear out some of the things in his mother's apt. [apartment] and maybe Ronnie might like some.

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