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Wednesday 22 October 1969

295th day - 70 days to come

Barbara Francis called. She was very pleasant and said she hoped that I didn't think that she had had the bill for A.A. [crossout] sent to me. She said she would check with Pat and get back to me. We went over the changes I had made and there weren't very many of them.
Fay Hertog called to say that she was sending me ten more Author's copies. If the original ten come either I'll return them or keep them and pay for them.
Had fay connect me with Barbara to tell her about another change I remembered - removing "A Journal of American Wargaming." Barbara thinks that the charge to me will be removed.

Letter at home from Fabio. "Bob Scott of Professional and Technical Programs has come through with a modest club deal." etc. He still hasn't rcd. my letter about the bill for A.A.

The 10 author's copies of A GAMUT OF GAMES came. (Finally.)

Removed the 43 lines from my column for the Nov.-Dec. issue of S&T. Took them from a number of games, rather than dropping one review as Jim had suggested.

Rcd. an answer from a PLAYTHINGS card:- PLA-O-MAPS GAME by The George F. Cram Co. Already had the circular from the stationery show.

Thinking of same further thoughts for my card game DRILL FOR OIL. One deck of 54 cards constitute the "oil well" cards. They are arranged 012345678987654321-012 etc. Then they are cut (in some definite pattern) so as to put some breaks in the sequence. The second deck consists of two parts. 30 cards are broken into 6 sets of 5 "bidding cards" - with values 1-2-3-5-8. The other part of the second deck is 24 "special" cards. These are mainly profit cards but others cause loss of money and more important loss of equity (see below). When a player drills a well he can either pay the whole expense, 80%, 60%, 40%, or 20% (when does he make the decision?). The first well a player buys must be payed for in full. After this a partial payment is indicated by covering part of the card in question. Players get money at the start. 6 wells are auctioned off one at a time. A bid is made by placing one or more cards face down in front of the player. After these 6 well cards are auctioned off the auctions are continued but before each auction players, in turn, take a "spec- ial" card and follows its instructions. Twice thru the "special" deck covers all the cards in the "oil well" deck.
A player keeps a well as long as he has any equity in it. But when he loses the last 20% it is out of the game. A fully paid for well doesn't lose equity.
Player with highest total value of wells at end is the winner. With tie, most cash among tying players wins.
(Still have to work out the balance of amounts.)