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TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 1968
303rd day - 63 days to come

Rcd. a letter from Lech Pijanowski. Contained, among many other thing:
RINGO, HORSEMEN, BARBACAN.

Rcd. from Chris Wagner, Jim Dunnigan's friend, 13 copies of
STRATEGY & TACTICS magazines from the beginning until May-June 1968.
Also a listing of some books and other material they sell.

Wrote up HEKATON.

To N.Y.G.A. meeting at Arthur's. Wald and Claude there.
Gave Claude the copy of STRATEGY & TACTICS Jim Dunnigan gave me
last March.
Claude gave me back the patent material he borrowed 10/16.

Wald and Arthur showed us a GAME based on LOTUS. There are 9
plastic toothpicks, 3 red, 3 white, & 3 green, of three sizes.
Players in turn throw out the 9 picks on the table. The others
bet on the one, two, or three picks that with be picked up last
by the banker. There Each player has a set of cards corresponding to the
9 picks which are used for noting the bets. The odds give no advantage
to the banker and are: 8-1, 35-1, 83-1 depending on whether
1, 2, or 3 cards are bet on. (I wasn't thrilled with it.)

We played a round of PATTERNS II. (Very good.)

Played some EGGHEAD POKER. (Fun for a while but not more
than two times.

Arthur & Wald had a complete reworking of THREE, and I think
it's great now.
Use the NOVA board as before. One player has 9 red and one
player has 9 white picks. There are also 3 green ones.
Each player in turn places 3 picks.
Opponent's picks can be captured by completing a straight
angle at a point where they are. All of his picks at this point
are captured. (As shown on the left.)

[Diagram of what appears to be 5 toothpicks in an arrangement where they all meet at one point. 3 of the picks are dashed lines while the other two are solid. One of these is labeled as follows:]

Playing this captures the 3 enemy pcs.

a green pick in line with a pick protects it from this type of capture.

[A second diagram shows a line of 4 toothpicks. The inner ones are solid and the outer ones are dashed. The one on the far right is labeled as follows:]

Playing this captures the 2 enemy pcs.}

Another (and new) means of capture is by enclosure, (As
shown on right [2nd diagram].)
A player may if he wishes also when making a capture place one of the
green picks to in the vacated space. This is in addition to
placing the three picks of his own. A green pick, once down, stays
for the duration of the game. There are, of course, only three
green picks.
A player may not place more than 3 picks at a single (cont. on 10/28)

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English TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 1968
303rd day - 63 days to come


Rcd. a letter from Lech Pijanowski. Contained, among many other thing:
RINGO, HORSEMEN, BARBACAN.
Rcd. from Chris Wagner, Jim Dunnigan's friend, 13 copies of
STRATEGY & TACTICS magazines from the beginning until May-June 1968.
Also a listing of some books and other material they sell.
Wrote up HEKATON.
To N.Y.G.A. meeting at Arthur's. Wald and Claude there.
Gave Claude the copy of STRATEGY & TACTICS Jim Dunnigan gave me
last March.
Claude gave me back the patent material he borrowed 10/16.
Wald and Arthur showed us a GAME based on LOTUS. There are 9
plastic toothpicks, 3 red, 3 white, & 3 green, of three sizes.
Players in turn throw out the 9 picks on the table. The others
bet on the one, two, or three picks that with be picked up last
by the banker. There Each player has a set of cards corresponding to the
9 picks which are used for noting the bets. The odds give no advantage
to the banker and are: 8-1, 35-1, 83-1 depending on whether
1, 2, or 3 cards are bet on. (I wasn't thrilled with it.)
We played a round of PATTERNS II. (Very good.)
Played some EGGHEAD POKER. (Fun for a while but not more
than two times.
Arthur & Wald had a complete reworking of THREE, and I think
it's great now.
Use the NOVA board as before. One player has 9 red and one
player has 9 white picks. There are also 3 green ones.
Each player in turn places 3 picks.
Opponent's picks can be captured by completing a straight
angle at a point where they are. All of his picks at this point
are captured. (As shown on the left.)
[Diagram of what appears to be 5 toothpicks in an arrangement where they all meet at one point. 3 of the picks are dashed lines while the other two are solid. One of these is labeled as follows:]
Playing this captures the 3 enemy pcs.
a green pick in line with a pick protects it from this type of capture.
[A second diagram shows a line of 4 toothpicks. The inner ones are solid and the outer ones are dashed. The one on the far right is labeled as follows:]
Playing this captures the 2 enemy pcs.}
Another (and new) means of capture is by enclosure, (As
shown on right [2nd diagram].)
A player may if he wishes also when making a capture place one of the
green picks to in the vacated space. This is in addition to
placing the three picks of his own. A green pick, once down, stays
for the duration of the game. There are, of course, only three
green picks.
A player may not place more than 3 picks at a single
(cont. on 10/28)