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1/8 1/7 TUESDAY 9 JANUARY 1968 9th day - 357 days to come

Called Bill Bentzin. Told him about the political games, including the old games I saw at the Parker archives. He said that he may be able to get me on some TV panels. He is going to St. Paul at the end of the month. Will try to check on BAZAAR.

Thinking of using one of the games I saw at the Parker archives as a pencil & paper board GAME which can be easily made up by hand. Two possibilities. A large quadrille with one space for each electoral vote. See in Parker archive notes, pg. 8 (B) POLITICA for the type of layout. This would probably be much too long a game. This led to another idea. Have a 64 x 64 9 x 9 quadrille. Leave the outside spaces blank and in the inner 7 x 7 place the states (with Hawaii and Alaska on one space) with their electoral votes. The largest states are at the center and getting smaller as they get to the outside. Play is as in REVERSI. The player with the most electoral votes wins. This then led me to think of another GAME with a similar type of play. The layout is drawn as shown. [diagram of curved lines with intersecting dots and stars; lines are colored differently (yellow, purple, black, red, blue, green)] Players in turn place a marker on any spot. When a player encloses one or more of an opponent's pcs. along a line these are turned to the encloser's color. If one or more of these turned pcs. also enclose an opponent these too are turned. Etc. When all spaces are filled players recieve one p player with most receives 5 point + the difference in ammount. A player may not play a pc. that causes one or more of his pcs. to be surrounded by the opponent unless he makes a capture in the same move, even if the capture is on another line. The pc. so played is not captured even if at the end of the move it is still enclosed.

Called Harry Cunningham. Told him about Playthings subscription for $2 (I had called earlier) and he told me to enter a (cont. on 1/8)