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Thursday 7 March 1968

67th day - 299 days to come


For this day see Wednesday 6 March. [Arrow pointing to prior page]

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the gaul [gall] to ask him to do a foreword.
He had contacted Hank Simmons of Parker about some other puzzles he had information [crossout] on which are similar to INSTANT INSANITY. Hank will visit him during Toy Fair week as he will be in New York. During the conversation Hank asked Martin if he knew me and Martin knew me. They didn't go on from there so Martin doesn't know the reason for the question.

Dad gave me last Sunday's Times book section. It contained an ad for MINITAR and for ESP TEST KIT. It also contained a book THE MASTER GAME, by Robert S. de Rapp. It is not on games, but another tying in of living to games. People can play various games such as the "religion game", the "Science Game", the "art game", etc., which are all ways of life. The best is the "Master Game" which has his aim the attainment of full consciousness or real awakening. He only gives hints as to how to achieve this.

Rcd. a long letter from Haar Hoolim. He is still not aware of HAAR HOOLIM'S PERCEPTION GAMES being published. He has a number of new games which are similar to FOCUS. He mentions seeing ACQUIRE in a page of game ads from a Canadian paper. He was a little vague as to whether I could use one of his games.


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Utah - 120 OK. - 120 Tex. - 50 N.H. - 30 Wyo. - 180
Cal. - 130 Fla. - 20 Ha. - 10 MAINE - 20 Iowa - 120
Nev. - 70 Miss. - 50 Alaska - 10 Vt. - 30 N.Y. - 70
W. Va. - 70 Kans. - 50 Ark. - 180 R.I. - 20 S.D. - 120
Ky. - 180 Ga. - 70 Wisc. - 50 Pa. 120 Mass. - 120
N.C. - 50 Nebr. - 120 La. - 30 N.J. - 30 Wash. - 20
Tenn. - 250 Mo. - 250 Del. - 30 Mich. - 40 Ore. - 50
Md. - 50 Mont. - 50 Ind. - 50 Ariz. - 70 Conn. - 30
Va. - 70 Col. - 180 Minn. - 50 Ohio - 70 Ill. - 120
Idaho - 120 N.M. - 70 N.D. - 30 S.C. - 20 Ala. - 50

Each player is dealt 7 cards (2 to 4) can play. Play is rummy style except that a player can take two cards from the deck or one from the discard pile. The top card can be taken or one below if the player can show he has two bordering states.
Object is to get cards of a state and all surrounding states. When he does he can lay down all the cards in front of him and place a marker of his color on the surrounded state (or states). Once he has laid down he can later add cards to surround more
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