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Monday May 6 1968

127th day - 239 days to come

Called Bill Bentzin. Out of town.

Another possible name for FREE FORM might be ATTRACTION.

Decided in TEMPO to considered a drawn game as a loss for gold (the first player to move).

Started letter to Warren Buell. Decided, rather than [cross out] explaining about my book, to send him a copy of the outline.

(cont. from 5/25) [5/24]

had turned them down. They have been successful in the computer field and expect to take the game market by storm. Copied the following list of [cross out] companies handled by Gary & Reidel. Most, I believe, have games.

[column 1]
Adult Leisure Products Corp.
Advanced Ideas Co.
Art Fair, Inc.
Bandwagon Mfg.
Campaign Game Co.
Championship Games
Country Lane Dutch Supply
Douglas Co., Inc.
Fischer of America
Fortunes Games
Games Research Co.
Good Games
The Idezer Corp.
Jensen Mfg. Co.

[column 2]
Kalah Game Co.
Marlou Creations, Inc.
Mullincrafters
Musicraft Industries
Roalex Co.
Scandia House Enterprises
Schoolhouse Industries
Scientific Games Dev.
Solar Prod. Corp.
Spencer-Murray Corp.
Stencil-Art Publ. Co.
Wff'N Proof
Whitney Bros. Co.

Called Alice. Told her about MEM. She told me about her talk with Will. He will discuss the matter of eliminating the reduction clause with Bill Caruson. He pointed out, however, that while some people have better contracts, others have worse. Also they feel that they have helped me a lot by publicizing me as an expert on games. Alice [cross out] told me, though, that the conversation was very am- icable and that will emphasized that they liked me.

[cross out] Spoke to BB about the state products to be used for STATEMENT. Decided to use more than 3 for some states. Blocked out the dimensions for a perigraph for all the imfo.

On Johnny Carson program saw ad for RECALL (MB). Each player has a plastic holder with spaces for 4 square pieces of cardboard. There are set of differently patterned card- board squares and also smaller shapes which can be super- inposed. Each player has a complete set. One player sets up his holder with 4 squares and as many other
(cont. on 5/7)