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8/23
8/22
TUESDAY 24 AUGUST 1971
St. Bartholomew, Apostle
236th day - 129 days to come

Blocked out a letter to Jim Kraus, about BAZAAR, WILD WOOD PILE,
SLEUTH, and PLANES.

At "The Push Cart" bought 4 more copies of PSYCHE - PATHS
for 49 [cents] each. Also bought 2 small domino sets at 10 [cents] each.
Also saw TAM-BIT, TAKE FIVE, and SNAFU on sale for 95 [cents] each.
At "Bargain City" bought 120 push pins and saw TAM-BIT for
sale at 99 [cents].
Bought the April 1971 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. At the end of
Martin's columnhe mentioned that he had rcd. rules for
many two-hand games based on Conway's LIFE. Also that
there there will be a newsletter on LIFE put out by
{Robert T. Wainwright
{1280 Edcris Road
{Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598
On Worth St. at a small store bought 25 colored pencils for
$1, and 21 small dice also for $1.

To Earl Perel's apartment. He showed me a book he took had
out from the public library : - THE FOLKWAYS OMNIBUS OF CHILDREN'S GAMES
by Iris Vinton - (Stackpole Books - 1970). It is mainly active,
singing, etc. games, but there are quite a few variations
(simplifications) of standard board games.
Played his game SPQR, which he had mentioned (not by
name) when he was at my house. The board is similar (I
may have the colors arranged different than he has) to
the diagram.

[Large diagram of a 10 x 10 square grid board.
O B O B O B O B O B
G R G R G R G R G R
O B O B O B O B O B
G R G R G R G R G R
O B O B O B O B O B
G R G R G R G R G R
O B O B O B O B O B
G R G R G R G R G R
O B O B O B O B O B
G R G R G R G R G R
The top two rows and bottom two rows are marked with a slightly darker line than any of the other rows. Some of the central spaces in those rows are marked off and/or shaded red.]