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TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER Election Day 1968 310th day - 56 days to come

Worked out a complete game of CROSSINGS.

BB typed the new material on SPELLBINDER and the letter to Bob Claude.

Lilian Barasch told me that she has been seeing a game advertised on TV a lot. Finally determined that it was AVANTÉ.

(cont. from 11/19) [11/19]

[diagram of 8x8 grid with dark circles, white circles, and dashed lines; caption reads "(Not all the white pieces are shown.)"]

more may be placed. Only a A player may not place a piece in his op- ponent's terminal row, and no player may place a piece in a corner space. No player may have more then 2 pieces connected together into a group, orthogonally or vert diagonally. (This is the rule that makes the game.) Played a number of games by my- self and it seems to come to a def- inite end. Possibly with more skillful play a draw may be possible. It may be desireable to limit the pcs. to (say) 10 and then move them. The game can also be played with pencil and paper.

Claude here in the evening going thru the material I have of his in the archives. There weren't as many card games as we both had thought there were, but he still said I should use ROBBIN' THE HOOD. Also gave him the scoring for SHADY LADIES although I didn't have the rules. Should be easy to reconstruct. Claude returned THE PLAY OF MAN which he had borrowed. Gave me a copy of THE COMPLEAT STRATEGYST since he bought a copy of the new edition.

Rcd. a copy of Jim Dunnigan's game WALL STREET. It doesn't look too interesting. He called in evening to see if Phil had called me. No. Jim will call me at work Friday.

There was an ad for the 3M bookshelf and sports lines in the November December of "Better Homes and Gardens". (Filed in "1968 Ad Clips" folder.)

Claude had an idea for a GAME, a POKER variation. 25 cards are layed out face up. Each player secretly writes down 5 of these cards. Then players in turn choose a card from the layout based on one of the cards they have written down, crossing it off. The [crossed out] written down card allows choosing a card of either the same suit or same denomination. High poker hand wins.