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Wednesday 26 August 1964 239th day - 127 days to come

Sent letter to Ed Weber with illustration for HOLD THAT LINE and asked if he could check whether the weekly newspapers could handle it.

BB & I played a new WORD GAME IDEA. At random take 12 letters in succession from a book or newspaper. Then each player arranges them in cross word fashion, using pencil & paper. Score by multiplying number of vertical words, but number of horizontal words, by number of letters in longest word. Double this if use all letters. No unfinished words are allowed. Worked well. Could be played using more letters. (If the 12th letter is a Q take the following U as well & eliminate the 1st letter.) 

               (cont. from 8/25)

piece for the third time (becoming & high) the game is finished. Each player scores 2 points for each 2-high pile, 4 points for each 3-high pile, and 8 points for the 4-high pile. Another idea might be to limit the pcs. that a player has to 16. When he reaches a king row he can take a single pc. of his own from any place on board and use it to crown. This game could be continued until either no jumps were available or until neither player had a single pc. left for crowning. Additional crowning pcs. on a pile could be obtained by addit- ional crossings, and each would double the value of the pile.

ITS IN THE BOOK. Take some reading matter at random. The 1st player chooses one letter from the 1st word. The next, a letter from the 2nd word, etc. The object is to keep going as long as possible until a player completes a word and the other does not see any way of lengthening it. The player winning scores the number of letters in the final word. (This game derived from Claude's idea of 8/22).

Rcd. a FOCUS order (from Sci. Am.)

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English Wednesday 26 August 1964
239th day - 127 days to come


Sent letter to Ed Weber with illustration for
HOLD THAT LINE and asked if he could check whether
the weekly newspapers could handle it.
BB & I played a new WORD GAME IDEA. At random
take 12 letters in succession from a book or
newspaper. Then each player arranges them in
cross word fashion, using pencil & paper. Score
by multiplying number of vertical words, but number
of horizontal words, by number of letters in longest
word. Double this if use all letters. No unfinished
words are allowed. Worked well. Could be played
using more letters. (If the 12th letter is a Q
take the following U as well & eliminate the 1st
letter.)


(cont. from 8/25)

piece for the third time (becoming & high) the
game is finished. Each player scores 2 points for
each 2-high pile, 4 points for each 3-high pile, and
8 points for the 4-high pile.
Another idea might be to limit the pcs. that a player
has to 16. When he reaches a king row he can take a
single pc. of his own from any place on board and
use it to crown. This game could be continued until
either no jumps were available or until neither
player had a single pc. left for crowning. Additional
crowning pcs. on a pile could be obtained by addit-
ional crossings, and each would double the value of
the pile.
ITS IN THE BOOK. Take some reading matter at random.
The 1st player chooses one letter from the 1st word. The
next, a letter from the 2nd word, etc. The object
is to keep going as long as possible until a player
completes a word and the other does not see any
way of lengthening it. The player winning scores
the number of letters in the final word. (This
game derived from Claude's idea of 8/22).
Rcd. a FOCUS order (from Sci. Am.)