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11 Sunday - March 1973 First Sunday in Lent - 70th Day - 295 Days to Come

Mark Singer here for about 2 hours, interviewing me for WORLD Magazine. He says that the emphasis will be on humor. It should be out about May. He'll let me know when it does come out. Just in case I took his address:

Mark Singer 370 Mansfield St. (Apt A-10) New Haven, Ct. 06511 (203)-787-5546 (Home) (203)-432-4870 (Work)

He mentioned that Parker had a game ESPIONAGE (I am pretty sure that is the name) in which there are double agents, men that the opponent can control by secretly bidding more money for their services. This came up when I showed him my model of FOREIGN INTRIGUE.

Tom Atwater told him that Hallmark was coming out with games. After he otld me this I told him that I had two things that were sup- posed to be coming out, but that I'd believe it when I see it.

He said that the Urban systems stock issue just came thru [through]. They have over a million dollars to expand the company—games just being a part of it.


(cont. from 3/12) [3/12]

that will look like a file folder. On one side of the inside will be the board and on the other side the rules. There will be a plastic cover so that it can be marked with a wash-off felt tip pen. On the outside one cover will have a picture of the game and the other will have a picture and description of the inventor, like a book jacket. he will also sell a "starter kit" with felt pens and tissues for erasing. Also a loose leaf binder for keeping the games

He has the first game—NEXUS ready to go to the printer. He'd like another 5 to go with it. he is using BATTLESHIPS and probably a group of "quickies" including NIM, BOXES, and [illegible word crossed out] 3D TIC-TAC-TOE.

From my book he is interested in the following:

  • LAP - I'll write to Lech about it,
  • SKEDOODLE - I'll write to Jim Scully,
  • PAPER BOXING - he wants to put allow the "Start" space to be placed anywhere,

Also he is including a scoring area.

  • THE LAST WORD - I suggested [illegible crossed out word] adding colored lines reducing the field to

different sizes.

  • NETWORK - Wants it changed so that it is not necessary to move pcs [pieces].
  • HOLD THAT LINE, CUTTING CORNERS, and one or two others, as another "quickies,"

I asked him about PIPS, and that is a different type of game— for a line with plastic pcs [pieces], fitting into holes. (he wants all of his games to be playable on the move, without pcs [pieces] being loose.) NEXUS, incidentally, is something he worked up after playing TWIXT, But the strategic part starts much sooner.

The PIPS Series will not be ready until next year.

He is going to the Atlanta Toy Show to get buyer reaction and to try to line up reps. I told him about the "Stationery Show" (cont. on 3/10)

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