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Friday 24 October 1969

United Nations Day 297th day - 68 days to come

Felicia called. Arnold Shapiro wrote that he solved the puzzle - THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. He found that all 4 colors have the same solution and thinks they should be different. Another evaluator is working on the game and a report should be com- ing soon. We agreed that I'll write to Arnold with my ideas in setting up the puzzle.
She has some strategy games which I will see when I go there next week.
Brentanos tell her that the 3M games are going great.

Rcd. the statement from Ideal on CASE OF THE ELUSIVE ASSASSIN. Another 64¢ in the hold.

Rcd. a card from "Game-of-the-Month Club" - N.Y. They are flooded and they'll send me a gift and brochure with 41 games listed in a few weeks.

Rcd. the October & November 1969 issues of PANZERFAUST.

Miriam Frederick gave BB a copy of the (co-op) City News with her review of A GAMUT OF GAMES. Quite well written.

Met Frank Thibault at 200 Fifth Ave. and we down to 17th St. and he treated me to lunch. Here for supper and then we discussed games - except for time when Albert Field was here. Sold him one set of DOUBLE CROSS cards, an old set of pornographic cards, and a set of Sears (Roebuck) cards with their name on the ace - for $7.50. Gave him a panel of the card wall paper Claude had given me. (All this to Albert Field.)
Frank Thibault told me about the following.
VEXATION:- a combination of MONOPOLY and AGGRAVATION. 3M is considering it for their "Family Line." They also mentioned when he was there that BAZAAR might also be put into that line. Frank said the he wrote to THE ARITHMETIC TEACHER about BAZAAR. They wrote him that they were not doing an article on teaching games this October. Also on BAZAAR; his children were crazy about it at first, but then dropped it.
NITTY-GRITTY:- There are a considerable number of small pieces of two shapes- "nitties" and "gritties"- and a number of dif- ferent colors. There are plastic rings in 5 sizes. The pcs. are thrown on a table and then players take turns placing a ring around a group of pcs. (The rules for what belongs to whom when one ring is inside another are not cleared up yet by Frank). When all the rings are placed each player takes his pieces and scores for different com- binations of colors and shapes. (He tried to show it to Lynn Pressman and she wouldn't take the time to look. Lakeside and Transogram now are looking at it.)
SQUIGGLE:- (This is the one 3M almost did. Lakeside is looking at it now.) It is played on a quadrille board, about

(cont. on 10/23)