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SATURDAY 26 AUGUST 1967 238th day - 127 days to come

Rcd. a letter from Haar Hoolim. Later rcd. a copy of ARMOR from him. Unfortunately the rules are only in Hebrew.

Rcd. a short letter from Jerry D'Arcey. He didn't get a chance to visit me during his visit to New York. He visited Parker's also. He brought along KUFU, MOBY DICK, HIP-STICK, PROGRAMMIT and TRAVELER. He thinks KUFU is as good as sold.

Claude brought over TEN LITTLE INDIANS. It plays quickly and we played 2 three-hand games with Claude, Frankie, and myself. Then 4-hand including Dana. Then 2-hand by Dana & me. He won this on his first move. The board is as follows:

[diagram of cards drawn. Clockwise from top left: Top row (left to right): BLORE, JUDGE, COOK, GEN., DR., CAPT., THOMAS, DR., VERA, CAPT., COOK, CAPT. Right column (top to bottom): (CAPT.), VERA, CAPT., MARSTON Bottom row (right to left): (MARSTON), THOMAS, EMILY, MARSTON, VERA, MARSTON, JUDGE, BLORE, MARSTON, JUDGE, EMILY, GEN. Left column (bottom to top): (GEN.), BLORE, JUDGE, (BLORE) Across center: diagonal of cards connecting from third card on top row to fifth card on bottom row: COOK, JUDGE, GEN., BLORE Across center: diagonal of cards connecting from seventh card on top row to tenth card on bottom row: THOMAS, VERA, THOMAS, DR., EMILY Key to right reads:

  • Judge - 5
  • Marston - 4
  • Vera - 4
  • Capt. - 4
  • Blore - 3
  • Gen. - 3
  • Dr. - 3
  • Thomas - 3
  • Emily - 2
  • Cook - 2
  • ______
  • 33 ]

There are 33 cards as listed above, one for each space on board. 2 to 6 can play. One card is placed aside, the character being the the murderer. The remainder of the cards are dealt out to the players, it doesn't matter if they don't divide equally. The first player places one of his cards on a matching space on the board. After this players in turn place a card next to one on the board. If a player can't play, the one who went before him draws a card, blind, from his hand and keeps it. When a player discovers a corpse, by playing the last card of that character, he receives 10 points. He also can look at 2 cards, either from one player or 1 each from 2 players, drawn blind. When a player thinks he knows the murderer, he writes an acusation and looks at the card. If correct he collects 100 points and the game is over. If wrong, he loses 50 points, and is out of the game, which con- tinues. The game plays in about 15 minutes, so that a number of games can be played and a score kept. If the first player plays between two of the same character and the next player happens to be out not to have that character, that player is at a bad disadvantage. Claude is going to place stars on one space of each character and the opening play must be on one of these spaces.

Played CASE OF THE ELUSIVE ASSASSIN with Joyce Abraham's & her friend. I won.