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5/15 SATURDAY 17 MAY Armed Forces Day 1969 137th day - 228 days to come

Arthur called. Burn to Wald's with another writer for supper. They listened to Wald talk all evening, played a little THREE, looked at the HIGH DECK, and were quite interested in POWER. May get in touch with Arthur to see it.

Realized that I didn't have the rules for the following games in my files: TUMBLE LOGS (Cadaco). There are three dice of different colors and "logs" of three sizes of colors matching the dice. There is a platform with a moat around it. Players in turn throw the three dice and try to place the number of logs on the platform corresponding to the color throw (like 6 red calls for 6 red logs to be placed). Score for each placed and penalties (I think) for these that fall off. Each player works from the posi- tion left by the previous player. Play till a player reaches 500 points or until all logs are placed, in which case high score winds. (Fairly complete idea. SCRABBLE CROSSWORD CUBES GAME (S & R) One version of this game is similar to the others where the dice are thrown and arranged in crossword fashion and each word is scored, and each unused [crossed out] cube is deducted. A more interesting version is as follows: 14 cubes. Each player can take from 2 to 4 tosses. Object is to form 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 letter word. Once a word of a length is formed that length can't be used again. In each toss score values of each word (crossword fashion and same letter used in two words is scored twice). Deduct unused letters. Players may stop before using 4 tosses, even if they haven't made all words. Making all words in 2 tosses is grand slam - scores 50 points. (Must be an 8 & 7 in one toss and the others in another toss. See example.)

[diagram of two separate crossword examples: First diagram (words "PRETENSE" and "LATCHED"): Horizontal: P 3, R 1, E 1, T 1, E 1, N 1, S 1, E, Vertical crossing through T in "PRETENSE": L 1, A 1, T 1, C 3, H 4, E 1, D 2

Second diagram (words "DETAIN," "TOY," "ME," "TIMER," and "BONE"): First horizontal: B 3 Second horizontal: T 1, O 1, Y 4 Third horizontal: D 2, E 1, T 1, A 1, I 1, N 1 Fourth horizontal: M 3, E 1 Fifth horizontal: E 1 Sixth horizontal: R 1]

[some other letters: X8, J8, Z10, V4 Apparently no Q. 2 blanks which are wild - with no score (cont. on 5/15)