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TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 1968
345th day - 21 days to come

To Bloomingdale's. In stationery dep't saw ALPHABOK (Springbok). There is a board as shown and 200 small letter Squares consisting of 66 vowels and 134 consonant - prorated according to their frequency.

[Large Diagram of two grids - each has 13 rows and 10 columns. The leftmost column in each is populated with circles. The rest are empty.]

There is a booklet with quite a few proverbs with
26 or 25 letters in each. A player A solitaire game.Player picks one
of the proverbs and spells it out in
the circles. Object is to use all
200 letters in words of from 5 to
10 letters long.


Saw TURNCOAT (Annscott - in England). There is a 5x5 board and 10 pieces which are black on one side and white on the other. In addition there are red
& green designs on the top sides, arranged as shown.

[Diagram of 10 rectangilar shapes with the letters R and G placed above and below. There is a dashed line in the center separating them into two groups of five.] One player takes 5 pieces which have 3 red and 2 green designs on the white Each player takes a set of 5 (as divided). Each player in turn places a pc., with his side up on the board Once a piece is down a player in subsequent turns may either place another piece or move one already down, by a king's more. A player can jump an opponent's piece, which is removed turned and can be used by the capturer. A jump must be made unless the player can move a green design piece instead. If the same jump is still. around on subsequent moves, the player is not compelled to either jump or make another green move, A player wins when he gets a now of 5 with his color on top with the designs in order R-G-R-G-R. The last piece must be moved into place hot put on, If opponent tries to stop a row of 4 from being completed, he must use a properly colored design to maintain the alternate pattern. (Not sure if I have it 100% correct, but pretty close.) & it must be moved. There is also a solitaire which seems more interesting. The ten pieces are placed, black side up in the pattern as shown, Make jumps, the IRIGIRIGRI jumpina piece being of a different color design than the jumped F LRGRL when a piece is jumped it is turned over and since the white side is not known at the start you don't know what will show up), win by getting all white sides up, on the way a piece may be reversed numerous times. The basic rules allow diagonal jumps as well as orthogonal. A harder game is with only Orthogonal jumps allowed...

At Bloomingdale's picked up a Creative Playthings Cataloq. Has a MANCALA variation't called PITFALL (Told Alice about it, because of Connon's game. She already knew.) (cont. on 12/9)