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SUNDAY 18 JUNE Father's Day Fourth Sunday after Trinity 1967 169th day - 196 days to come

Played game of CASINO with BB & Esther.

(cont. from 6/17) [6/17] "choice" faces. Played with BB and the Laurences. Played fairly well but bogged down towards the end. Used a deck of 36 oil well cards. "DRY, DRY, DRY, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, REPEAT. Divided into 5 packs and put back at ramdom. Repeated twice more. Used 18 "refinery" cards 3 each of 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12. One die had the following faces:- Drill, Drill, Drill, Refinery, Choice, Choice. The other had:- Profit, Profit, Profit, Loss, --, --. Players in turn throw the two dice. When "Drill" comes the players bid for the right to take the top oil well card (sight unseen). Each player has a set of 18 cards:- 1- thru 9- , -1 thru -9, two of which are used for a bid. After nine bids the cards are picked up and used again. Refinery cards are bid for in the same way, except that the top card is faced up to be bid upon. When a player throws "Profit" he is credit with the nubmer of matched "oil well" and "refinery" cards (in other words, the one has least of. When a player throws "loss", he loses the top "oil well" or "Refinery" card in his pile, depending on the other die. In case of "Choice" he can choose to lose either one or a loss of points equal to that he would gain. When "Profit" comes up, there is bidding after the player collects his profit. With "Loss" there is no bidding. Play until either "Oil Well" or "Refinery" cards are ex- hausted and it comes up again. Most points wins. The bidding for the oil wells is the most interesting feature and I will have to emphasize this, probably elimin- ating the dice and the refinery cards.