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Friday 3 February 1967

34th day - 331 days to come

Rcd. [received] letter from Haar Hoolim. Mentioned buying 2 paperback books: - DICTIONARY OF GAMES by J.B. Pick. Contains AGON, THE ZEBRA BOOK OF GAMES AND PUZZLES.

The game SEDUCTION came. It is quite dirty but holds together as a game.

To I-S. Alice, Felicia, and Connor Barrett there. Played a little of his split-letter GAME. He made a new deck with more interchangebility in the letters but not as much as mine. He also gave a point value to the letters.

Bob Abbott called. Discussed old our feeling about the TV game. Neither of us find them much interest or fun. We'd only do it for money, which is not at all assured. He is seeing Funk and Wanels th next week. Thru a friend, they are interested in having him do a book of POKER variations, just a rehash of existing games. Talked, They talked about an advance of $3000 and publicity for him. He is going to ask them if they are interested in doing a book on CROSSINGS, my FOCUS, and Claude's LOA.

He has an idea for encouraging offense in ULTIMA. Pcs. [pieces] in the first line can move a maximum of 1 space, in 2nd line - 2 spaces, etc. Hasn't tried it yet. He'll come here some evening to look at my books on POKER.

Midge invited us up to play RUMMY ROYAL (Whitman). We didn't go but I dropped up a moment. It is a Michig MICHIGAN RUMMY type game with a large number of pools. There is one for the 10[drawing of a heart], J[drawing of a heart], Q[drawing of a heart], K[drawing of a heart], also Q[drawing of a heart] - K[drawing of a heart], 789 of any suit, and probably some others. There is also a poker showdown at the beginning which players can join or not as they wish. (Fairly complete idea.)