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At Claude's the kids playing HIGH GEAR. Claude showed me a new game he calls TORUS. We played two games and it worked quite well, but a little differently than he planned. Play on the FOCUS board with pieces started as shown. A pc. can move as many spaces as there are pcs. in the line it is moving in, friendly or enemy and including the moved pc. itself. A pc. must move the full number of spaces. A move can be orthagonal or diagonal. A pc. may jump over a friendly pc., but not an enemy. Capture is by re- placement. The object was to get a "torus" which was a configuration of 4 pcs. around an empty space as one of the following. In addition, all remaining pcs. owned by the player had to be in position adjoining (directly and not by a chain) one or more of the 4 pcs. This position won the game. In the two games we played we were much more in- terested in taking off opponent's pcs. than in forming the winning position. I believe that it is an interesting game just as a game of extermination. It might be interesting to allow the forming of a "Torus"--the 4 pcs. in proper relationship without the necessity of joining the other pcs. This would allow the taking off of an oppon- ent's pc.--not the winning of the game. Another possibility is to allow multiple captures by the same pc. in a series of capturing moves. Also the starting position will require some thought. Call from Felicia. One of their clients, a toy inventor, is interested in games & would like to meet me. Spoke to him and he'll call next week about coming over. Alice and I will get together next Monday to discull Whitman contract.

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English At Claude's the kids playing HIGH GEAR.
Claude showed me a new game he calls TORUS. We played
two games and it worked quite well, but a
little differently than he planned.
Play on the FOCUS board with pieces started as
shown. A pc. can move
as many spaces as there
are pcs. in the line
it is moving in, friendly
or enemy and including
the moved pc. itself. A
pc. must move the full
number of spaces. A
move can be orthagonal
or diagonal. A pc.
may jump over a
friendly pc., but not
an enemy.
Capture is by re-
placement.
The object was to
get a "torus" which
was a configuration
of 4 pcs. around an
empty space as one
of the following.
In addition, all
remaining pcs. owned
by the player had to be in position adjoining (directly
and not by a chain) one or more of the 4 pcs. This
position won the game.
In the two games we played we were much more in-
terested in taking off opponent's pcs. than in forming
the winning position. I believe that it is an interesting
game just as a game of extermination. It might be
interesting to allow the forming of a "Torus"--the 4 pcs. in
proper relationship without the necessity of joining the
other pcs. This would allow the taking off of an oppon-
ent's pc.--not the winning of the game.
Another possibility is to allow multiple captures by
the same pc. in a series of capturing moves.
Also the starting position will require some thought.
Call from Felicia. One of their clients, a toy inventor,
is interested in games & would like to meet me. Spoke to him
and he'll call next week about coming over. Alice and I will
get together next Monday to discull Whitman contract.