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Monday 16 December 1963 350th day - 15 days to come

To Life to see Eugene Newman & give him report. He like it. He thought $10 an hour was reasonable, and to submit a bill. To library to look at patents about 2 hours.

Bought book MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS AND ESSAYS by W.W. Rouse Ball

Eugene Newman told me of two of his games: Baseball Type Game - There is Monopoly-type path around the edge where players move & pick up contracts with players trying to get a complete team - as strong as possible. Players can trade players. After the teams are assembled there is a game and player with better hitters has the better chance of winning. (Rough idea). Rummy Type Game - There are cards of 6 different colors animals each one in 4 different numbers and 4 different colors (to get all combinations would require 96 cards - Gene remembered having 48). The players each draw 6 cards and try to get one of each animal. Special bonuses for getting one color or 1 number. Players draw & discard as in rummy except that the discards are face down. As actuall