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Monday 18 March 1968

78th day - 288 days to come

Called Fabio Coen to check whether next Monday would be soon e- nough to bring him the outline on the book. It's O.K.

Called Dr. Atwater in Concord. Told him of meeting Rockwell @ [at] Toy Fair. [crossout] Atwater said that he had been holding up on doing further business with Stancraft until he received Alex's contract. He will send me his comments on my games. I told him that I had the models completed and he said he would have done it.
Someone sent him a game called NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE which he thinks is like REVERSI with some slight changes. Asked me if I would look at it and I said of course.

Rcd. the contract from Pantheon books. It calls for 5% on first 5,000 copies, 7 1/2% on next 2,500, and 10% after. There is a clause allowing them to print a "Modern Library College Series" book at 2% royalty. The con- tract also calls for me to provide the diagrams in form for re- producing.

Martin Gardner sent me a letter he rcd. from A.S.M. Dickens from England.
Dickins sent him a book on [crossout] FAIRY CHESS which Martin said had a good history of 3 and 4 dimensional Chess. Dickins is offering copies to anyone interested. He also inquired about a game WAGON WHEEL CHESS. Martin wrote to him that he was passing on the question to me. I never heard of it.

Claude called. In a store he saw some old games, including ZIG ZAGGLE. I told him that I had them already.

Thought of 2 variations for TEMP. 1) Play a "set" with 6 games winning but must be two games ahead. Alternate playing first.
2) The first player switches a peg of his own with an opponent's, after which the opponent starts the game.