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7/19 7/18 THURSDAY 20 JULY 1967 201st day - 164 days to come

Doing further planning on EXECUI EXECUTIVE DECISION. Pretty well thought out now.

After work to I-S. Alice had left at noon - not feeling well yet. Played part of a game of VENTURE CAPITAL. She liked everything about it. We decided we'd send it to X first.

Felicia showed me the following letter from X that they just received:- Under separate cover, we are returning NUMBER FOOTBALL and LINES OF ACTION to you. We have struggled with "Number Football" for quite a while and can't seem to make it anything more than what it is - - namely, a fairly interesting number strategy game for two sports enthous- iasts. We have been unable to turn it into more of a game with equipment and playing pieces. All you need for the game is the lengthy rules and a pencil and paper. At this time, we can't use a game of this type. "Lines of Action" is a colorful game but generally not well received by those who play-tested it. Hope Alice is getting along all right. We will keep you posted on latest developments. Arnold.

Felicia was talking about a GAME invented by Paula Stone which is both for TV and a home card game. She has the script of the TV game and Alice thinks it is good of the type. The English office of Goodson-Todman likes it. The game itself is in the mails and she will show it to me before she sends it to X. She was going to send it to M.B. first, but she is mad at Mel Taft for not con- firming receipt of PAYOFF yet.

Jake Williams had a GAME idea there for me to look at. There was a 5 x 5 board and 5 red & 5 white checkers. Each had a magnet in it, some with one polarity, some with the other. When a piece lands on top of another, sometimes it will stick, other times not. He would like to get together with me and try to work out a game with this. I told Felicia to have him get in touch with me. Felicia says that he liked PAYOFF so much that he made up a set to play with his friends. Jakes says that TAG's ANALYSIS (see 5/21) is almost the same as FREUDIAN BLOCKS. Jake said that he just didn't have the time to make up models for Claude on speculation. I took home FREE FOR ALL. Possibly I'll have a chance to try it out over the weekend. We will send (cont. on 7/19)

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English 7/19
7/18
THURSDAY 20 JULY
1967 201st day - 164 days to come


Doing further planning on EXECUI EXECUTIVE DECISION. Pretty
well thought out now.
After work to I-S. Alice had left at noon - not feeling
well yet. Played part of a game of VENTURE CAPITAL. She
liked everything about it. We decided we'd send it to X
first.
Felicia showed me the following letter from X that they just
received:-
Under separate cover, we are returning NUMBER FOOTBALL and
LINES OF ACTION to you.
We have struggled with "Number Football" for quite a while and
can't seem to make it anything more than what it is - - namely, a
fairly interesting number strategy game for two sports enthous-
iasts. We have been unable to turn it into more of a game
with equipment and playing pieces. All you need for the game is the
lengthy rules and a pencil and paper. At this time, we can't use
a game of this type.
"Lines of Action" is a colorful game but generally not well
received by those who play-tested it.
Hope Alice is getting along all right. We will keep you posted on
latest developments.
Arnold.
Felicia was talking about a GAME invented by Paula
Stone which is both for TV and a home card game. She
has the script of the TV game and Alice thinks it is
good of the type. The English office of Goodson-Todman likes
it. The game itself is in the mails and she will show it to
me before she sends it to X. She was going to send it
to M.B. first, but she is mad at Mel Taft for not con-
firming receipt of PAYOFF yet.
Jake Williams had a GAME idea there for me to look at.
There was a 5 x 5 board and 5 red & 5 white checkers.
Each had a magnet in it, some with one polarity, some
with the other. When a piece lands on top of another,
sometimes it will stick, other times not. He would like to
get together with me and try to work out a game with
this. I told Felicia to have him get in touch with me.
Felicia says that he liked PAYOFF so much that he
made up a set to play with his friends.
Jakes says that TAG's ANALYSIS (see 5/21) is almost the
same as FREUDIAN BLOCKS.
Jake said that he just didn't have the time to make
up models for Claude on speculation.
I took home FREE FOR ALL. Possibly I'll have a chance
to try it out over the weekend. We will send
(cont. on 7/19)
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