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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]

(cont. from 3/8) [3/8]
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.

(cont. from 3/9) [3/11]

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
(cont. on 3/6)