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SATURDAY 1 MARCH Ember Day 1969 60th day - 305 days to come

Mailed Benham's PLAYING CARDS to Lech.

Rcd. answers from A. & L. and Creative Ideas.

BB and I played SPELLBINDER. Finally it is good.

Jerry D'Arcey over in the evening. Gave me 6 HANG UP cubes. We played 3-hand SPELLBINDER and it worked fine. Jerry liked it. Showed him FITTING & PROPER and he thought it was great. He thought that Kohner would be a better place for it than Schaper. He got an advance of $500 on an idea for a car that floats on reverse magnetism, and a twisted wire with a ring that is moved along it trying to get as far as possible before the ring touches the wire setting off a buzzer. Score for the distance traveled. The company was: { Model Products Corp. George A. Toteff-Pres. Dick Branstner - Research & Development Bert Breakstone (6th floor - 200 Fifth) - Rep. This company is also part of General Mills. Jerry said they are also looking for a puzzle. The thing that Frank Thibault has at Parker is called FIDDLESTICKS. It is a series of specially shaped sticks which are placed propped up against each other until a player causes them to fall.

Phil Orbanes called in the evening. He wants to come to New York to clear up the business with Renwal and also to give me copies of the finished games. Will probably come over next Saturday.

Jerry & I compared Frank's royalty on REGATTA with mine on BAZAAR. Mine was a little better.

(cont. from 3/2) [3/4] on which he reviews game. This teacher has a word GAME which has some of the same features as FITTING & PROPER, but not enough so that they are at all the same game. Al thought it interesting how the two of work similarly. He will send me the teacher's address so I can contact him. (This is probably the same reviewer that Koch of Cadaco mentioned last year at Toy Fair.) Al showed me two new games that he was thinking of adding to the FACULTY CARDS rules. One was a solitaire type with re- moving words with point value of 10 or more points. I told him about BALI and he is going to look at a copy before he proceeds. The other was a simple game. Cards are turned from the deck one at a time onto a face up pile with squeezers exposed. When a player sees a word on the top in correct order he can claim it and take it, if he is first. (Didn't get the details of scoring.) He has a series of pencil and paper games and I took a copy of the following: PAWN, MINEFIELD, DOROTHY'S GAME, RIGHT-OF-WAY, & FACULTY GRAMS. (Filed in Misc. game folder under title "Aco Travel Games.") (cont. on 2/16)