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FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 1964 31st day - 335 days to come


Called P.A.L. Spoke to Ken Kaye. He was sorry that they hadn't done anything with FOCUS and said that he expects to do something with the summer pro- gram. In the meantime, I'll take back the books. Spoke to Shirley Anderson at V.A. She said Miss Barr wants to test SCOPE more before submitting art- icle to N.R.A. I'll go there Feb. 6 and 5 Red Cross Volunteers will observe with the idea of running games themselves. N.Y.G.A. meeting here. Played 4-hand PYRAMIDS. But Helen took so long before moving that the others were bored. Wald showed GAME OF CHANGES, played with High Deck (See Rational Solitaire in large Card File). When played by the three four players 8 cards are dealt to each. Players in turn must play a card. If they play the first card of a house it can be any one. The four houses are kept in separate piles. When a card is played to a pile already started it must match the last played card either vertically ( [_] K-P-F-L) or horizontally (i.e. _ K-V). For example if the "S" were on top either the "V" - "C" or "P" could be played. All cards are visible at all times, both those dealt to the players and those played in the piles. When a player can not play in his turn he is out and play continues until all except one player have dropped out; the remaining one can continue playing as long as able. His score is all the cards remaining to the dropped players added together and then subtracting the cards, if any, he has remaining. Play to some a- greed total. When 3 play deal 10 cards to each and 2 others to the table which are the starters of 2 piles. If both are the same house that house remains, in this case, with 2 piles. When 2 play the deal is the same as for 3 hand. Of the 3 hands one belongs to each player and the 3rd is a dummy hand that can be played from by either player in his turn instead of playing from his own hand. Theoretically the game is playable by 5 or 6 players but has not been tried yet. Bob showed a version of ELEUSIS he received from Mehran Thomson, Jr., a teacher, and Bob calls it SCHOLASTIC ELEUSIS. One player chooses a rule and writes it on a sheet of paper (long) which is folded over. This player is known as "Nature". The cards are dealt out to (cont. on 1/30)