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SATURDAY 24 JULY 1971
Pioneer's Day (Utah)
205th day - 160 days to come

Rcd. PANZERFAUST (#46, July '71). Has a complete game WAR COLLEGE,
which is played on the TACTICS II board.
Rcd. a letter sent to S & T asking where RECKON can be bought.
Enclosed a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Thought of two GAME ideas, using cubes on a board:
1) The cubes are dice. They can move as many spaces as the player wishes
as a rook. The number of spaces moved is added
to the number on top of the die at the start, casting out sixes,
and the die lands with the resultant number on top. (Possible variant: a six
is wild allowing a capture at any distance.) (Details to be
worked out.)
2) Cubes have colors on the faces. They move to pile and players
score for certain patterns in the towers. (Just a germ.)

Thought of a PUZZLE. On a 10 x 10 peg board, 32 pegs are
placed so that they form the corners of 8 rectangles. 8
rubber bands, preferably of a number of different colors
are provided to place to form the rectangles. (Numerous
puzzles can be formed by different placement of the pegs.
Squares that are tilted, as in Martin Gardner's HIP,
can also be used.

(cont. from 7/25) [7/26]

Each addition over one in the same box - 20 point bonus.
Each subtraction over one in the same box - 20 point bonus.
"Shotzee" - An operation that gives the same answer as another
one counts 50 points "instead" of its normal score. (In the
example two multiplications resulting in 21 were shown and
one was scored as a "shotzee." Since I didn't see the rules I am
not sure exactly what constitutes a "shotzee".)