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11/28

THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER 1970

St. Francis Xavier 337th day - 28 days to come

Rcd. a letter from HAK (TICKER TAPE) telling me to take care of my health as first priority.

Rcd. a check for $200 from the "Postrib Corp." for my BOOK WORLD article.

Pete Swift called me again about TABLERO DE JESUS. He thought of the idea of giving a 3 coin bonus for completing a group of 7 but not allowing a player to continue.
In wagering he suggested the player placing two more coins than his largest group. This then indicates the number of coins in the group when it is purged. With this rule we discussed the player removing the chips as soon as he is purged (having won his wager). Also we decided not to allow rewagering if only one coin has been added to the group.
He also suggested a throw of 12 as "diablo" (which I thought of yesterday. I told him about 12 and 11, but got my odds wrong. When I realized this I called him back, and also had another idea. Any throw with a die that can't be used is a "diablo". This would come into effect more as the group be- come larger and would probably make getting a group of 7 difficult enough to go back to allowing a player to continue if he succeeds in doing so.
Pete didn't care much for my arrangement of bonus squares. We discussed it and decided to eliminate the bonus as not really adding anything to the game.
His artist friend is working on the board now but there is plenty of time to finalize the rules.

Felicia called to find out if I had called Jerry Green yesterday. I told her about my conversation. She said that she had felt that FREE FORM didn't have enough to it and that she'd rather not show it around.
X is asking her about LIVE WIRE and I promised to have it done by the end of the year, even if I just write up Rudy's original rules (but in this case I don't want 50%). Felicia said to save my good ideas for my own games.
Felicia rcd. a batch of material from "IMPACT" on their game based on GO SEE. It is still very much alive. (With which airline?)
She has a lot of games she would like me to see but we'll wait with my coming down there to see if she can contact Dorothy Shapiro of "Brentano's" and set up a lunch appointment for the same day.

Tried to call Michael Dummett but no answer. He called after 11 and spoke to Dale. He'll come tomorrow morning at

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