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Thursday 16 May 1968

137th day - 229 days to come

Thought of anew layout for FITTING AND PROPER using two sets of 7 pieces which will be identified by colors. One possible arrangement is shown.

[Drawing of 8x8 grid with sections divided by thicker lines and dots drawing in random cells.]

The two dice will have faces 1-2-3-1-2-3- and 1-2-3-4-[star]-[star]. [Stars] are wild. A throw of 3-4 will be lucky and I throw of 1-1 (snake eyes) will be unlucky.

Alice called. INFINITE PLANE is back & she is going to check it and SPECTRUM to make sure all the pieces are there. A spinner from Connor's TOTTER was missing.
In her talk with Whitman they said that they are definitely interest in DANGER STRAITS. However they are not decided whether to include it in their regular line or start an adult line and use it there.

Called Bill Bentzin about the auction. He may be out of town and one of assistants will then go. They'll contact me for final arrange- ments next Monday.

At Macy's saw BUY OR SELL (see 3/13). there are 96 pcs. as shown. there are two dice, one for player. All the pieces are face up and

[drawings of 10 tall rectangles of graphs with graph lines drawn in each rectangle and corresponding numbers written in:

  • graph 1 text: -1, same 2345, +6, (20 of)
  • graph 2 text: -12, +3456, (10 of)
  • graph 3 text: -12, same 34, +56, (10 of)
  • graph 4 text: -12345, +6, (4 of)
  • graph 5 text: -1, +23456, (4 of)
  • graph 6 text: -12345, +6, (4 of)
  • graph 7 text: -1, +23456, (4 of)
  • graph 8 text: -12, same 34, +56, (10 of)
  • graph 9 text: -1234, +56, (10 of)
  • graph 10 text: -1, same 2345, +6, (20 of)]

any one can be chosen, except that each player is only entitled to use 2 of each of the pieces with only four. A player can play on his own or opponent's graph. After playing a pc. the die is thrown and is left in that player's half of board. The number deter-

(cont. on 5/17)