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FRIDAY 13 MAY 1966 133rd day - 232 days to come


[diagram at left: 11 x 11 grid, with dark and red circles interspersed throughout.]

To I-S. Alice, Conner Barret, and, later, Claude there. Played CONTINUUM. First three hand & then 4. Used a board as shown (I am pretty sure). In the 3-hand game, the player opposite the empty side plays first. Rotate the seats after each round and play three rounds. With 4-hand play four rounds and rotate the first play. A head can be played in any red space as long as there is the physical possibility of the player forming an unblocked animal. (The player doesn't have to have a body piece that will match.) A body sp piece is played on the black spaces, 3 spaces in front and 1 to either side of the head. A body pc. can only be played that completes an animal. If the head belonged to another player and the one placing the body has a matching head he may recaptur replace the opponent's head on the board and capture it. He is not compelled to do this. If on a player's turn there is an animal facing him (the only ones that count for him) that is part his color and part an opponent's, he may, if he has a similar head, capture the opponent's and place his on the board. He may replace one of his pcs., body or head, with another that fits if he wishes. This constitutes a turn. When a player has no pcs., or no pcs. that he can play his turn is missed. When no player can play, the round is over. An animal is blocked for a player if there is another pc., either friendly or enemy in front of the body pc. or diagonally directly in front. In the diagram, an animal at "A" would be blocked by a pc. in any space marked "X". Score 20 points for each animal with both pcs. of player's color. 10 points for a mixed animal, one pc. of the player's color. If an animal faces a player with none of his color, he scores nothing for it. Score 5 points for each captured pc. Deduct 10 points for each unplayed pc. (My scoring.) (See 1/25/65). The pcs. are arranged so that the heads of the same color on a pc. face each other, while the bodies face away from each other (I am pretty sure.) Think that the game is better than last year but still (cont. on 5/12)

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