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FRIDAY 21 MARCH 1969
80th day - 285 days to come

To Felicia's. On the way bought 1000 blank business cards and
looked at Childcraft. Nothing new.
Barnard Collier of The N.Y. Times there at 4. He is doing a piece for
probably next Wednesday, Kept pumping me with Felicia interrupting
with plugs for BALI. I said it was the only really different card world game, Felicia left at a little after 5 and we kept talking till 7 and on the way to the subway, Played two games of Focus, He caught on very well and really liked it. He said that he and another man will be starting a magazine and they will be paying good rates for games that are very different in form, one suggestion he threw out to Bill Dodge was a GAME based on foreign agents, one that is based on factual research Told him I might do some thinking on it after the book is finished a One thing I said that I shouldn't have was that I had done. research at Parker, Felicia, before she left mentioned that Abercrombie and Fitch intends to become the adult game headquarters in New York, Barnard said held like to have pictures taken of my collection will call about setting up a date for Monday evening, Told him I will be writing a column for ... STRATEGY & TACTICS. He is interested in it. He is also interested in the game BOOM OR GOLDEN AGE as an example of a game... requirint Cooperation between the players, looked at it whent got home, It wasn't quite that ... Barnard mentioned that he had done a game CARRIBBEAN for the Herald Tribune and Felicia said she had a copy. I borrowed it." After Felicia left Barnard told me of this game he made up with some friends and which is popular i as a party game, DICTION-WARY. Each player in turn takes a good-sized dictionary and chooses a world which all the other players say they don't know the meaning of. Then each player writes a definition he creates for the word while the bud with the dictionary whites the true definition. Then that player reads all the definitions aloud in xandom onder. Then, starting at his left each player in turn states which definition he accepts. Players, including the one with the dictionary, score I point for each other player who picks his definition. Also a player who picks the correct definition scores i point, (what happens if someone gets the true definition intuitively and writes it as his definition?)