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Wednesday 10 April 1968

Wednesday in Holy Week 101st day - 265 days to come

Called Fabio Coen's secretary. (He is in Europe.) She said to return the contract with a note. I did.

Bill Bentzin called. He was approached about a charity auction to be held at the Cheetah on 5/21. He wants to auction off a set of Bookshelf Games with an evening of instruction by "the world's foremost authority on games." I said sure. He asked if $50 would be enough for me. Again, sure. He'll keep me posted.

In evening made rough pieces trying to get the best possible arrangement of discs for CIRCUIT. Tried to get one that would use all 16 discs. Best I could do with a satisfactory arrangement was 14.

Fay Baker called. She has an idea that would involve [crossout] AT&T, Arthur Samuel (who is known for teaching com- puters to play [crossout] CHECKERS), and me and would use board games. She has already broached the idea to a V.P. at AT&T and he is interested. She wants to tell Samuel and me together. He will be in Atlantic City in the end of April for a meeting. Fay would like me to come there to meet him and her. I said O.K. with me if it is O.K. with Samuel.

(cont. from 4/11) [4/11] board they can be placed anywhere. On the opponent's side they can only be placed orthogonally next to one of their own. A card [crossout] can cover the opponent's of the same state, provided it could otherwise be legally placed in that space. Player who first gets a chain from his end of the board to the opponent's (orthogonal connections only) gets the total of all the electoral votes in the cards directly in the chain. If a player on his turn has no space in which he can play a card his opponent wins 51 points (I think.) New rounds are played and the first player to get a total equal to the total number of votes for all the states wins the game. (I ordered this by mail on 3/19 but haven't rcd. it yet.)

Rcd. a letter from Haar Hoolim with a mention from the Jerusalem Post of a chemistry GAME for children & adults. Put out by the Yissum Research Development Co.

[diary printed text in red below] Have you filed your Federal Income Tax Report for 1967 and Estimated Declaration for 1968?