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Brought to the office the combination board and rules for NEW BATTLE OF ARMY CHESS and made twoe reproductions which I gave to Dave, He will try to have <br> | Brought to the office the combination board and rules for <u>NEW BATTLE OF ARMY CHESS</u> and made twoe reproductions which I gave to Dave, He will try to have <br> | ||
the Chinese engineer working on the Turnpike Bridge translate it. <br> | the Chinese engineer working on the Turnpike Bridge translate it. <br> | ||
Unfortunately the rules were in red and didn't reproduce too well. | Unfortunately the rules were in red and didn't reproduce too well. | ||
Thought of <s> | Thought of <s>another</s> some more rules for <u>PATTERNS II</u>. Players can only ask for 25 spaces after which they may guess the remaining or guess <br> | ||
some and leave others. They never can get a score below 0. <br> | some and leave others. They never can get a score below 0. <br> | ||
The "designer" scores, regardless of the number of players, <s>the</s> <br> | The "designer" scores, regardless of the number of players, <s>the</s> <br> | ||
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"designer" scores 0. If all the players score 0 the "designer" gets <br> | "designer" scores 0. If all the players score 0 the "designer" gets <br> | ||
a penalty of 25 points - for making the pattern too difficult. | a penalty of 25 points - for making the pattern too difficult. | ||
Thinking of ideas for changing <u>PAYOFF</u> in line with last Friday's <br> | |||
suggestions. Put a company on each card and also a price which is <br> | |||
<s>is 10 times the number of</s> 10 million dollars for each member of the <br> | |||
coalition. If a letter of the coalition is not in use and other player <br> | |||
can join the coalition, <s>Except when 4 play</s> at the invitation of <br> | |||
the other players in the coalition. When 4 play, however, the <br> | |||
missing players are not replaced; instead the value of the company is reduced. <br> | |||
The companies have 4 different overall types. If a player gets <br> | |||
more than one of a type he gets a bonus as follows : - <br> | |||
2-3 billion; 3-9 billion; 4-18 billion, 5-30 billion, 6-45 billion. <br> | |||
For keeping score eliminate the money, but not the I.O.U.s, <br> | |||
and substitute a grease pencil scoreboard with a space at the <br> | |||
bottom for keeping track of the company types. | |||
Transogram sent me the rules for <u>EAGLES</u>, on a cardboard <br> | |||
from the box. | |||