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TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER St. Francis Xavier 1968 338th day - 28 days to come

The samples of MONAD & VENTURE came from Bob Claude. MONAD had some goofs in the rules and VENTURE had a card missing. Felicia called to say they got theirs just as mine came. She wasn't too pleased with the appearance.

Rc'd. another letter from Haar Hoolim. More "study" on his game ALONE.

Claude copied a number of books from the list of books in print and I took those I found interesting:-

  • MATHEMATICAL GAMES * by La Kacs, Klava & Emmar Tarjan, 1968, Walker & Co., 720 Fifth Ave. N.Y. 10019 ($4.95)
  • MAKE IT YOURSELF GAME BOOK by Robert Reeves, 1964, Emerson
  • MODERN MATH GAMES by Lola May, Teacher's Publications (Subsiduary of Crowell Collier), 23 Leroy Ave., Darien, Conn. 06820 ($1.95)
  • SCIENCE GAMES Teacher's Publications ($3.50)

(* indicates the title is tentative.)

Fabio Coen called. He read my manuscript and likes it. Had a few questions but nothing serious. Would like to have the manuscript in for editing by the end of January.

Played NETWORK with Arthur and then with Wald (at Wald's apt.). It seemed that the 2nd player couldn't win unless the 1st played badly, but didn't play enough to test it out completely.

Played 4-hand [crossed out] PATHS LOGICAL (See [crossed out] FOOTPRINTS of 6/11/65). Made Claude made a much larger layout. Each player in turn colors in one line between two adjacent points of intersection. Then in the next turn each chooses a second line. After that each player in turn extends one end of one of the two lines. Lines can cross each other but the same line can't be used twice. If a player succeeds in joining his two lines, in the next turn he can place a new line anywhere he wishes. As players are completely blocked, they drop out. Some scoring system has to be worked out to take into consideration the number of lines they are drawn after each player drops out. (Worked good.)

Arthur & Wald showed some corner openings for their new version of THREE. (See 10/29 & 11/25) One clarification. When a player places a green line it must be used for capturing as placed.

Later thinking of 2 possible corrections for the NETWORK problem: Players can't put more than 5 (of his ten) pieces on spaces of the same color. The first player places 1 piece, then each in turn places 2 pieces.