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WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 1967 18th day - 347 days to come

Brought WORD CHESS back to I-S. Alice, Felicia & Conner Barrett there. Saw two GAME ideas by Conner. The first had plastic discs with letter parts on them. By turning the discs letters are formed. Seemed too difficult for children to see and too uninteresting for adults. The other idea consisted of cards with half of a letter, divided horizontally, on each. The card tells what letter it can be used as a part of. For example the fol- lowing card could be used for an E or an F [drawing of card]

Four of us played. About 12 cards were dealt to each. Object was to form a word at least 4 letters long. Trading was done by offering 1 or more cards to be traded, sight unseen. It worked fairly well. I suggested a few changes to make the cards more inter- changeable, such as making the cardprevious card good for an S also (his S was rounded). He also will have to provide more of the more common letters. I suggested a scoring system where a 4 letter word scores 1 pt., a five letter word - 2 pts., a 6 letter word - 4 pts., etc. He also had a completed game called TOTTER. [diagram of "totter table" and "tott"] This consisted of a three-tiered disc balanced on a rod. This is a "totter table." There are 12 "totts" which are shaped like bowling pins and are weighted on the bottom to make them stand upright. There is a catapault with which players try to launch a "tott" onto the "totter- table." The "totts" are divided equally between the players (with 5 players, 2 are not used). The "totts" are lettered from A thru L and the players take consecutive groups. Players in turn launch then a "tott." Continue until either one player has all his "totts" on the table including one on the center or all players' "totts" are on the table. Score 100 pts. for each "tott" in the center, 25 pts. for the middle, and 10 pts. for the outside. Knocking off an op- ponent's "tott" off the table scores minus 10. Knocking off one of your own or knocking an opponent into a lower score area does not give a penalty. I found it pleas- ant. The girls liked it very much.

Took home AIRLINE which was in pretty bad shape. Will fix it up, rebox it, and we'll show it to 3M, probably after toy fair.

Also took home a revised version of the rules for SEAPOWER, with some photos of the equipment. Felicia asked me to send her a photostat repro- duction of the Times article on FUTURE. Said I would.

In Toys & Novelties and also Playthings saw a Parker ad for COUP D'ÉTAT. (cont. on 1/19)

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WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY
1967 18th day - 347 days to come


Brought WORD CHESS back to I-S. Alice, Felicia & Conner
Barrett there. Saw two GAME ideas by Conner. The
first had plastic discs with letter parts on them. By turning
the discs letters are formed. Seemed too difficult for
children to see and too uninteresting for adults.
The other idea consisted of cards with half of a
letter, divided horizontally, on each. The card tells what
letter it can be used as a part of. For example the fol-
lowing card could be used for an E or an F [drawing of card]
Four of us played. About 12 cards
were dealt to each. Object was to form a word at least
4 letters long. Trading was done by offering 1 or more
cards to be traded, sight unseen. It worked fairly well.
I suggested a few changes to make the cards more inter-
changeable, such as making the cardprevious card good for
an S also (his S was rounded). He also will have to
provide more of the more common letters. I suggested a
scoring system where a 4 letter word scores 1 pt.,
a five letter word - 2 pts., a 6 letter word - 4 pts., etc.
He also had a completed game called TOTTER.
[diagram of "totter table" and "tott"]
This consisted of a three-tiered disc
balanced on a rod. This is a
"totter table." There are 12 "totts"
which are shaped like bowling pins
and are weighted on the bottom to
make them stand upright. There is
a catapault with which players try
to launch a "tott" onto the "totter-
table." The "totts" are divided equally between the players
(with 5 players, 2 are not used). The "totts" are lettered
from A thru L and the players take consecutive groups.
Players in turn launch then a "tott." Continue until
either one player has all his "totts" on the table including
one on the center or all players' "totts" are on the table.
Score 100 pts. for each "tott" in the center, 25 pts. for the
middle, and 10 pts. for the outside. Knocking off an op-
ponent's "tott" off the table scores minus 10. Knocking off
one of your own or knocking an opponent into a
lower score area does not give a penalty. I found it pleas-
ant. The girls liked it very much.
Took home AIRLINE which was in pretty bad shape. Will
fix it up, rebox it, and we'll show it to 3M, probably
after toy fair.
Also took home a revised version of the rules for
SEAPOWER, with some photos of the equipment.
Felicia asked me to send her a photostat repro-
duction of the Times article on FUTURE. Said I would.
In Toys & Novelties and also Playthings saw a Parker
ad for COUP D'ÉTAT.
(cont. on 1/19)
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