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Took the package (in the outside box A.H. used for sending <br> | Took the package (in the outside box A.H. used for sending <br> | ||
me a <s>complete</s> review "Bookcase" game) to the post office. Paid <br> | me a <s>complete</s> review "Bookcase" game) to the post office. Paid <br> | ||
$1.10, plus $.90 for special delivery | $1.10, plus $.90 for special delivery (so that it will reach on time), <br> | ||
plus $.60 for $200 insurance. <br> | |||
Called <u>Ken Morgan</u> and left word with his roomate that I <br> | |||
couldn't meet him tomorrow. | |||
Traced the new city and route layout for <u>JET HOLIDAY</u>. | |||
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(cont. from 1/29) [2/24] | |||
third plane is scored, each of the four sides is scored <br> | |||
in the same way. Then the layout is turned over and <br> | |||
the bottom is scored. (I suggested counting these double.) <br> | |||
He showed me <u>TILT BINGO</u>. The board is a 5 x 5 grid and it is <br> | |||
mounted on a round base so that it can tilt. <br> | |||
[Small diagram of what appears to be a board balanced on a fulcrum.] | |||
The spaces have different colors and there <br> | |||
is a die with matching colored spaces. Each <br> | |||
player has colored pcs. that can stack. Players in turn <br> | |||
throw the die and place one of their pcs. in <s>th</s> a space <br> | |||
of that color. Pieces can be on top of other pcs., except that <br> | |||
if a player gets two of his pcs. one on top of the other <br> | |||
an opponent cannot place on that stack. Object to get five <br> | |||
in a row in any direction. Penalty for "tilting" the board. <br> | |||
(Rough idea.) <br> | |||
He showed me his <u>DON'T SHIFT THE GEARS</u>. Two pcs. of plexiglass <br> | |||
are mounted vertically with space between. A number <br> | |||
of pegs pass thru holes in the two pcs. A series of <br> | |||
gears of different sizes are placed in the hollow so that <br> | |||
they are held above the bottom by the pegs and by <br> | |||
interlocking teeth. Players in turn withdraw pegs trying to <br> | |||
avoid gears falling to the bottom. (Rough idea.) <br> | |||
<u>Jerry D'Arcey</u> is not doing well at all with his royalties, last <br> | |||
year and this. Frank doesn't know what Jerry is working <br> | |||
on now. I suggested that the time might be right for <br> | |||
<u>PROGRAMMIT</u> now. Frank will remind him about it, altho <br> | |||
Jerry only has a piece of it. <br> | |||
<u>Frank</u> has an option from Hallmark for <u>TOTEM</u>. They offered <br> | |||
him either $500 for 2 years or $250 for 1 year. He took the <br> | |||
latter. Last time he spoke to them by phone, a month or <br> | |||
so ago, they still hadn't tooled up for anything. <br> | |||
When Frank saw <u>Bill Garrity</u> at Schaper he tried to find <br> | |||
out about <u>SHAKE-A-LEG</u> (see 1971) but Garrity said he didn't <br> | |||
know anything about it. <br> | |||
(cont. on 1/24) | |||