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TUESDAY 8 OCTOBER 1968
282nd day - 84 days to come

Called Lee Horn. She said the interview with me is probably
still on, once the editor has some free time. Told
her I'd be working at home for the next couple of weeks.

After work to Arthur's. Wald & then Claude there. Art
Arthur and Wald had a new game, BORDERLINE which
was a development of LAP. Each player makes a grid
of 11 x 11 dots which are numbered from 1 to 11 along
the top and lettered from A to K along the side. He draws
a continuous path orthogonally connecting the dots.
The line must start at one edge, must be between 10
and 20 turns and then end at an edge. It may not
run along an edge. It must divide the field into two
areas of 50 spaces each. Players in turn The players then make a grid for solving the opponent's
line. In turn they call a coordinate and are told
whether it is a miss (which is marked with an X), a
hit (marked with an O), or a corner (marked with a [square]).
When a player believes he has the "borderline" he announces.
If the other player went 2nd he has one more chance. If
a player has the correct "borderline", he scores one point for
each corner in the line. If he is wrong the opponent scores
10 points. (Played it twice. It is pleasant.)