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SATURDAY 8 MARCH 1969 67th day - 298 days to come

Rcd. a short thank you letter from Jerry D'Arcey.

Rcd. letter from Good Games and Games Research.

Long talk with Claude. He will be getting $500 advance from Oggi very shortly.

Rest of day drawing diagrams for book.

(cont. from 3/7) [3/5] balls. Each player in turn uses the wheel and obtains 5 letters. These are written on a sheet of paper drawn up like a SCRABBLE board. One is used for each game. (Didn't get details of scoring, etc.) NILE, SNAG, TRAFFIC, WILD LIFE, and COUNT DOWN are still in the line although they are disappointed with the sale of the first.

Gary & Reidel. Asked about the new games Daystar wrote me about. The only one out was BIG BOARD, a stock market

[diagram drawn on left. Tower reading top to bottom: Section 1: "BEAR, $6,800" Section 2: "BULL, $9,200" Section 3: "DIVIDEND, $200" Section 4: "$8,000 per 100 shares" Section 5: "STANDARD OIL OF N.J."

Annotations read: "Selling price depending on market condition" with curly bracket and arrows pointing to "BEAR" and "BULL" sections. "Collect from others for landing" with curly bracket and arrow pointing to "DIVIDEND" section. "Buying price" with arrow pointing to "$8,000 per 100 shares" section.]

game. There is a circular path with 30 stock spaces similar to the one shown. Players move around buying stocks when they land on a space, if they wish. Put marker on to show ownership. May Game player may buy a second 100 shares. Players try to buy at lower market and sell at higher. Some spaces change the market. Also some chance cars also do. Some spaces force a player to liquidate their holdings. (Rough idea - but game has nothing new.) Was looking at the exhibit of Spear's games when a man from Marlon Creations told me he would give me a copy of HEXES at the International Toy Show, next week.

Continental Promotions Inc. After waiting a while, told Arnie Margolis that the other company was holding FITTING & PROPER but that I would work out some other ideas for them and that he should contact me next time he comes to N.Y. Said he would.

Crisloid. PYRAMID. 15 letter dice. Players in turn shake them and then with a three minute timer try to arrange them in words, either cross word style or singly. There is a 10 x 5 grid with numbers from 0 to 9 in a random pattern. The words are built on this grid trying to cover the highest numbers possible. When time runs out score is the sum of the numbers covered by valid words. (cont. on 3/9)