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FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER 1968
341st day - 25 days to come

Finished writing up SKEDOODLE KNIGHT CHASE. Wrote the
introduction to Chapter 3 and started working on OSMOSIS. Played some 2-hand games with BB & with Dale. Also wrote up ALL MY DIAMONDS.

(cont. from 12/5) [12/5]
Showed me his game of CONGLOMERATE. There is a box
board with strings of hexes noted with compny names
(A1, A2, A3; B1, B2; C1; D1, D2; E1; F1; F2, F3; etc.) placed in
and other hexes left blank. There is a card for each
letter and when one is drawn, say A, all the player put
in sealed bids on one or more of the A companies.
When get two or more in a row it is a conglomerate and
players can try for a profit using a die.
(Not completely worked out yet.)
Renwal still hasn't approved the budget so I can't
start working yet. Jim thinks that 6 hours a month is not
enough for me to accomplish much and he'll bring it up at
a meeting.
Discussed his doing a game for my book and he'll do
a very simple war GAME. Will have it ready in a week or
two. He wanted to use hexes but they are too
difficult to reproduce by hand. He'll use a brick pattern,
which is topologically the same instead.