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THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 1968
Hallowe'en
Reformation Day
305th day - 61 days to come


Wrote up LOA, including an example of an end game. Looked at CUPS.
Check from Idaal came third quarter for CASE OF THE ELUSIVE ASSASSIN - 1632.11.com ... ...HERE . .. . Alice called, w ill Erickson & Bob Claude were in town for the business show and dropped in a while. Talked about the following games, SPELLBINDER : - Just got to it, will likes it a lot and it going into panel testing. They have some questions on it which we will be go Hing in the mail.. MONAD : - Alice said we preferred INFINITE PLANE" Will said that weld be happy with MONAD when the checks started coming in Livesented the remark but Alice said it was said just as a jokes But he didn't say why they had changed the name) VENTURE. They had samples to bring us of this and MONAD but each thought the other had brought them. They will send them THESE UNITED STATESoi Going into test panel and EXECUTIVE DECISION : - They didn't know whether Bill Caruson receized it yet The Eduplantional line is doing very well they say. (Alice said that Haus Goldsmith made around $1300 on enlerinevaten) They are looking for more games for their line EGGHEAD OR CHICKEN) dece (cout, triom 11/ the end of the month. Mr. Clancey, incidentally is thinking of taking over STRATEGY & TACTICS. Jim said I would be getting the remaining issues to bring me up to date soon. John Geiger over in the evening. He is going ahead with putting out a lines of games himself. He is getting many of the suppliers, etc... to accept stock instead of cash. He is also licensing the games to the company in quantities I think of 1000 at a time, in case he... loses Stock control, Martin Garduer suggested Tom Atwater as a representative. I told him what I knew about Atwater's activities and suggestead Gary & Riedel, He has already been told to contact them and has an appointment He is starting with a small grid of 6x6 which he will call THE LOGI-QUAD PUZZLE. On this he will have the puzzle of placing is balls each of two colors so that no squares are formed of 4 balls of either color including those with rotated axes... This is from Martin Gardnen's Hip. and SQUARE (B) There is also a game players in turn place one ball of their color, when all 36 are down each player stores i point for each ball that is in a line of 2 or move counting horizontally and vertically separately. Told him of my game te X AND O which has a similar type of play and my scoring for TOTALLY-- which is similar. - Another game on the 6x6 grid will be LOGI-QUAD. (cont, on 10/30)