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8 MONDAY * OCTOBER 1973
COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION * 281ST DAY * 84 DAYS TO COME

Thought that my new SHAPE AND SHATTER puzzle was
similar to LUCKY 13 PUZZLES. It is, but I checked and
found that THE RELUCTANT RECTANGLE (see 3/3/70) used the
idea of forbidding colors to touch each other. I am sure
that there are others as well. The way of setting up the
puzzle is completely different in SHAPE AND SHATTER and
LUCKY 13 PUZZLES.

For S & T column finished RACECOURSE and did AUCTIONEER,
DEAR ABBEY, BILLIONAIRE, BOGGLE, FLUSTER, GRAPPLE, HOLIDAY,
PATTON, and ZILCH.
While writing up BOGGLE remembered that when I met Allen Turoff (see 9/17)
he told me that one of the men in the art
department had been instrumental in getting through to Parker
to put out BOGGLE. This fellow, however, changed the letter
distribution (Allan thinks there should be more T's) and
also changed the rules to allow a cube to be visited only
once. Allan had allowed it to be used even as a double letter.
At Martin's paint store with BB bought a 28" x 32" (I am pretty sure)
pane of plexiglass for $5.69 (-) 25%.

(cont. from 10/10) [10/10]

next Tuesday.
I asked, and Jim gave an envelope with the 4 pieces of
plexiglass they sell.
Took a copy of BULL RUN. It is packed in the new "retail"
format. More attractive, but less convenient to store.
Mannie, of the art dep't gave me a printer's sheet with
my column - #39. (I'll give it to Phil Orbanes.)
Saw Dave Isby and asked him if he'd be in next Tuesday so that
[I] could bring him the two copies of PATTON. No, but he
asked Al Nofi to hold them for me. O.K.
John (don't know his second name) was in Al Nofi's office
and said someone had brought a copy of PATTON in on a Friday.
He, John, liked it very much. To hell with realism; he likes
a game that plays cleanly.

To Felicia. She was a little "under" and lashed out at my doing games for
others. I reminded her that I had told her that I was working
with "Gamut of Games." She said that I owed giving her my good
games. I pointed out that the kind of things I did for "Gamut"
were things I could turn out by the dozens. And if I didn't
do them someone else would.
Brought her copies of VEGAS 13, WORD PLAY, NICETACTOE, and
DAM-IT! (Didn't bring CHINESECHEK for lack of room in my holder.)
Yesterday she said she'd like to see them. Told her yesterday, when
she said I only made money thru her, that I was getting half
(cont. on 10/7)