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15 Saturday - October 1977
288th day - 77 days to come

Rcd. [received] envelope from Phil Orbanes with repros [reproductions] of his drawings for what he still calls SPECTACTULARS.
Jenny from next door brought in a U.P.S. package with THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY GAME. In it was a short note from Steven Luckey, who must be the inventor.

At flea market near Edith's bought 13 more "General Dynamics" pens (see 9/4) for $1.00 - from the same dealer. Also bought 2 books on "Logic" and 1 on "The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry" for 10¢ each.

Visit from the Richters. Played a lot of TWISTS 'N' TURNS with Al and he liked it a lot. After a few games we discovered that having 6 pcs. [pieces] with all edges your own color made it too east to mount an early offensive. Cut down the pcs. to 5 of each kind instead of 6 and this made a better game; for one thing the reuse of a pile to 4, but decided that 5 is better since everything else is in 5's. Also the tendency is for the piles to stop at 3, since putting the 4th level allows the opponent to stop at put on the last pc.
Al thought that I could make pcs similar to HI-SPOT, but they were just flat. This started me thinking whether I had a copy of the game. In diary found that I did, but Al and I couldn't find it downstairs. After he left I discovered it downupstairs.
At a garage sale they bought CORNER IV (see '68) for $1.00, they were pretty sure, in perfect order. At another garage sale Adella bought a political game which we finally discovered was WHITE HOUSE - which I have.
Date to go there 11/5.