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MONDAY 24 JULY Pioneers' Day (Utah) 1967 205th day - 160 days to come

Alice called. Notice of the 2nd quarter ACQUIRE report came. Disappoint- ing - $363.37. The "fair trading" agreement may have had something to do with it. Also, Alice said business in general was lousy in the game & toy line. Check came during day. I told Alice VENTURE CAPITAL would not be ready till next week. Alice said that HIGH BID only had about 1/2 the sales of ACQUIRE.

At May's saw CLEAN SWEEP (Schaper). There is a board showing a top view of about a block of a city. There are holes for putting in obstructions (fence posts - etc.). A large number of differ- ently colored plastic pieces are placed in the center. Each player has a broom with which he tries to sweep white pieces into his own color corner and colored ones into the opponent's corners. Once a pc. is in a corner it cannot be swept out. White card pcs. count plus while colored count against the player. Getting white pcs. of the same shape give extra score for 2 or 3 the same. Saw TWIN SCRIBBAGE (Lowe). This is a double set of their SCRIBBAGE. Each set, in two different colors, consists of 13 dice each with letters & 2 wild sides. The letters have point values, raising with the difficulty of using the letter, Dice are thrown and the letters used in crossword fashion, with a timer limiting the time of play. Score for the summation of all the points in each word. Deduct for un- used cubes. With the double set they give various ways of playing. One is for a player to use all 26 dice. Another is for each player to take one color and each throw and work separately. Another is to mix up the dice and each player take 13 at random. A word formed all of the same color counts double. Another is to throw all the dice and then have the players take turns choosing one. In this version words of 1 color also count double. (There are other minor variations.)

BB and I working on VENTURE CAPITAL pictures.

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English MONDAY 24 JULY
Pioneers' Day (Utah) 1967 205th day - 160 days to come


Alice called. Notice of the 2nd quarter ACQUIRE report came. Disappoint-
ing - $363.37. The "fair trading" agreement may have had something
to do with it. Also, Alice said business in general was lousy in the
game & toy line. Check came during day.
I told Alice VENTURE CAPITAL would not be ready till next week.
Alice said that HIGH BID only had about 1/2 the sales of ACQUIRE.
At May's saw CLEAN SWEEP (Schaper). There is a board showing
a top view of about a block of a city. There are holes for putting
in obstructions (fence posts - etc.). A large number of differ-
ently colored plastic pieces are placed in the center. Each player has
a broom with which he tries to sweep white pieces into his own
color corner and colored ones into the opponent's corners. Once a
pc. is in a corner it cannot be swept out. White card pcs. count
plus while colored count against the player. Getting white pcs.
of the same shape give extra score for 2 or 3 the same.
Saw TWIN SCRIBBAGE (Lowe). This is a double set of their
SCRIBBAGE. Each set, in two different colors, consists of
13 dice each with letters & 2 wild sides. The letters have
point values, raising with the difficulty of using the letter,
Dice are thrown and the letters used in crossword fashion,
with a timer limiting the time of play. Score for the
summation of all the points in each word. Deduct for un-
used cubes. With the double set they give various
ways of playing. One is for a player to use all 26 dice.
Another is for each player to take one color and each
throw and work separately. Another is to mix up the dice
and each player take 13 at random. A word formed all of
the same color counts double. Another is to throw all the dice
and then have the players take turns choosing one. In
this version words of 1 color also count double. (There are
other minor variations.)
BB and I working on VENTURE CAPITAL pictures.