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December 1977 - Friday 9
343rd Day - 22 Days to Come

Rcd. [received] "Season's Greetings" card from the Bredehorns. Letter included - she'll invite us after holidays.
Rcd. envelope from Walter Luc Haas with pages from BASLER ZEITUNG with his column: MONOPOLY tournament; DIPLOMACY; DUELL; DAS MALEFIZ-SPIEL.

Called Claude and spoke to Anne. More on date next Fri [Friday].

(cont. from 12/10) [12/10]

of the other material.
Ronnie brought the January PLAYBOY Mag. [magazine] It has a game HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE. Phil F. says he can get it for me half price in a month or so.
Don't remember how it came up, but Ronnie has the game CONESTOGA. I have notes on it, but not the game. Ronnie, Audrey, Jordan, and I played a revised version of his CROSS PURPOSES (see 10/29 - and the idea of 11/25 has been discarded). There is a deck of cards as follows: 8 each of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 - 4 of 6 - 3 of 7 - 1 Joker (48 total). Each player plays with a hand of 3 cards, replacing one after he plays. A Joker can be use to move any distance.
An area of 5x5 is enclosed in the center of the board. If a player moves off the board and the previous player places the marker on one of his own 10 point tiles, the player who went off the board can, after paying, move the marker to one of his own 10 point tiles in the center area - if he wishes. (I suggested allowing this privilege any time a player lands the marker on an opponent's 10 point tile.
Players are not allowed to pay in opponent's tiles - only their own. 25 points in opponents' tiles wins. If a player has to make a move that allows a choice of two of more opponents to win, he must move the shorter distance allowed by his cards. (At 25 points, we all felt that the game should continue, probably to 50 points. Ronnie said that he played partnership and 50 was correct for that the combined score. I pointed out that in partnership there would be a lot more landing on safe tiles.)
Ronnie was gratified that one lunchtime when he wasn't at work, they chose to play CROSS PURPOSES.
Ronnie showed me his play change of WORD ROUND-UP onto a board. The board is 10x10 and is filled from 144 (I believe) letter tiles. Each player has a scoring board which has room for 9 words (see folder - this date). The upper number is the score for completing a word. The lower number is the minus score, per letter, for not completing a word. (For rules see folder - 10/1/77.)
Ronnie is working on putting CORNER THE MARKET on a board. Told Ronnie that I would like to play FOCUS. He and Jordan played a couple of games this morning, and he found that the end
(cont. on 12/3)