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Sunday 3 March 1968

First Sunday in Lent 63rd day - 303 days to come

Wrote letter to Roy Makepeace.

Finished letter to Alex Randolph.

Sent a clipping from Toys & Novelties showing a very juvenile educational game to Harry Cunningham at 3M. [denoted as KEY-KITS]

Sent back a card to Scientific Games requesting a free booklet on strategy and other information on CONCENSUS.

BB was at [word crossed out] an antique show with Marylin. She spoke to a woman who said she had a game called ROUND THE WORLD WITH NELLIE BLY and another one at her home. The price was "a couple of dollars."
Jackie Panzer
[phone number]
[address]

Dana cut the 2" pegs in half for use in the peg games.

(cont. from 3/2) [3/13]
A buyer mentioned the following three games as being sim- ilar to their SUM TIMES:- SUM FUN, THE WINNING TOUCH, SMARTY and Bob asked me if I knew about them. I had him call me in the evening and gave him info on the first two from the 1963 diary. The third I didn't have but I [word crossed out] remem- ber seeing it- a children's arithmetic game.
Told him a little about STATEMENT. He said they are interested in any game by Sid Sackson. They have a new girl who does the preliminary review on all the games. Harry Cunningham has left the game program.

Vitos Products:- SCATTER BRAIN. A plastic mat with a center circle and scoring spaces around it (square in [word crossed out] shape). Players build a tower of different shaped wood pieces [letter crossed out]. When it falls the player into whose scoring spaces the blocks land received the value shown for each piece. I mentioned that it was similar to BLOCKHEAD and the Salesman said they had theirs first.
THE TREASURE QUEST:- Different sets of clue cards to be hidden around the room for home "treasure hunts".

The Barrett Game Group Inc.
CABOODLE, CORNER, CORNER IV. These are games which give a constantly changing set of prices and occasional special hap- penings. It is not quite random but it is (I was told) pro- grammed for 2000 hours before it repeats. "Caboodle", the Real Estate Game ($150) seems particularly good. The infor- mation is all on the ad clips filed in the 1968 folder.
(cont. on 2/24)