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12/15
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December 1976 - Thursday 16
351st day - 15 days to come

To Fabio. He checked sales of BEYOND TIC TAC TOE - about 66,000; and BEYOND SOLITAIRE - about 34,000. I brought up that he had said 48,000 last time. He had mistakenly added two figures, when one already was the total.
I noticed an empty cover of BEYOND WORDS and Fabio gave it to me. We played a game of RESOURCES, using a set order of the four colors, and we found a little difficulty in keeping straight. Told Fabio of variation where player can use either of his colors on a turn. He prefers this.
Played SEARCH and came out almost exactly even for each color. After lunch at Italian restaurant played start of a game of ROUND 'N' ROUND and then part of PEACE CONFERENCE. He thought it was primarily for children. I said that the reaction from adults to PEACE CONFERENCE is quite interesting.
Jane Feder joined us and we discussed timing. I'm to have the 6 games ready by 1/17/77. Date for 12 noon (and I asked for a Jap- anese restaurant). I am to have the entire book ready by the middle of February. // Also mail Fabio rough rules for the 4 games in next few days.
I returned one copy of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. I asked, and Fabio said to concentrate on the book, rather than this game or the UNICEF game. He had a new prototype of the "game book" format (see 11/15) which is cheaper to produce.
IntoOn way out met Janet Townsend. She asked if I had examples of games in progress for BEYOND COMPETITION for ideas for the cover, instead of working out their own. Sure.
Met Claude at Irvington Thrift Shop. At [illegible crossed out] Haddassah Thrift Shop bought NUMBLE for $1.00. Later discovered that I bought a copy this year. Took the best parts from each for collection copy. Claude said that he'd love to meet Martin Gardner. I said that there would have to be a definite purpose, such as showing Martin the "binary cross" in magic squares. Claude said he'd like to get Martin's ideas on why this happens. We'll discuss it in more detail.
Rcd. G & R no. 55 (Dec '76). Ad for TRAKA (16 Electronic Games), GOTCHER!, SPYTAK (Dacoll Games Ltd.). Humorous article on FICTIONARY DICTIONARY, CROSSWORD GAME, OVER AND UNDER (a dart game), and MURDER. List of 23 games for gifts: BERMUDA TRIANGLE, MAGNIFICENT RACE, FORMULA ONE, HARE AND TORTOISE, TREASURE OF THE PHAROAHS; MONTAGE, ON-WORDS, BLOCKWORD, (Travel) SCRABBLE; SQUASP, OPERATION, SNIFTY SNAKES, KARA-A-ATE MEN; GUERILLA, THOUGHTWAVE, TRIPPPLES, CUL-DE-SAC, HOPPIT; RISK, SIGMA FILE, QUEBEC 1759, TACTICS #, KINGMAKER. "Across the Board" mentions Edward de Bono and his "new" puzzle EVOL (changing words 1 letter at a time), MAN-EATER, HEXAGONAL CHESS (Glinski), OTHELLO - REVERSI, SILVIKRIN CHESS, BLOCKWORD match with Graeme Levin, book BEST GAMES PEOPLE PLAY by Richard Sharp. Ad for "Simulation Design Corp's. CROMWELL, JERUSALEM!, KHALKHIN-GOL, BATTLE FOR HUE. "Party Pieces" gives rules for NIMMCLOCK, GRAB, PING-PONG, PYRAMIDS, LINES, PLEASURE HUNT.

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