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SATURDAY 15 JULY St. Swithin's Day 1967 196th day - 169 days to come


(cont. from 7/13) [7/14] Claude had a pencil & paper GAME also based on topol- ogy. The layout is as follows, with different arrangement of the numbers:

[diagram of two rows of six triangles each; first row labeled: 4, 10, 1, 3, 9, 6; second row labeled: 8, 2, 7, 11, 5, 12]

Each player in turn connects two numbers that add up to a number divisible by 4 (2, 3, or 5) could be used. A line cannot be crossed. The last to connect numbers wins. (It was over very quickly. Later I played around with the idea of having the numbers each by themselves but this did not work out very well either.

At Cadaco, Dan Monihan told me that SEVEN SEAS and NIK-NAK NUMBERS were invented by the same po man. I told him that I thought Seven Seas was one of the best trading games ever. He agreed. Unfortunately it has been discontinued. He thinks the packaging was at fault. Nik- Nak Numbers is not going very well and he thinks it is priced a dollar too high.

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