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Wednesday 19 January 1969

29th day - 336 days to come

Thinking of ideas for 3 & 4 hand TAM-BIT.
With 3 each plays for himself. When a player scores on his "Tam-Bit" he counts 2 times the number of markers in the group. On his other scores it depends on which other player he plays. The player to his right - deduct 1 times the number of markers in the group; or 1 on the minus if he uses it; and 1 on the plus if he completes a row. With the player to his left-dedct 2 times the num- ber of markers in the group; or 2 on the minus if he uses it; and 2 on the plus if he completes a line.
With 4 play partners. Each player has his own color. Scoring on the "Tam-Bit" is always double the number in the group. The partnership scores whether a player lands on his own or on [crossout] his partners. But if he wishes, a player when landing on his partner, can take a score of 1 times the number in the group and then change the marker to his own color. In a crossing, [sentence crossed out] markers of both colors can be used, and if a marker in a com- pleted row is changed from 1 partner to the other it is not a new vow.

Called Fabio and he called me back later. Told him I could bring him the manuscript next week and he let slip that I was the first author to meet his deadline. Later he started pressing me for the introduction. Made a lunch date next Wednesday to deliver the manuscript. He suggested that I see if Martin Gardner wanted to read one copy of the manuscript.

Called Phil Orbanes at Jim's place. Asked him for size of board in INFINITY. Also [crossout] told him of my suggestion for the "crash" in the 1929 version of THE MONEY GAME, that there be a track and a marker moves along it towards the crash de- pending on the cards used by the players (see game rules). Road the rules for these two games on subway going to work. He is thinking of following up the original 6 games in the GameScience line with a $2.98 line of adult games. TAM-BIT he felt would be perfect for it.
I asked him if he thought Stan Harris was satisfied with my report. He said definitely. Stan is only running the game program until Phil gets to New York in June.

Further thoughts on TAM-BIT, the equipment. It might be a good idea to have the center field on a separate board and have three individual scoring fields. Number of chips:- 25 red, 25 blue, 18 yellow, 10 green.

The patents ordered last year finally came.

Rcd. a copy of the game-book VOCABULARY and a nice letter from Richard A. Onanian of Advanced Ideas Co.

Rcd. a copy of MONAD from Bob Claude. I asked him for a copy of

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