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FRIDAY 25 JULY St. James, Apostle 1969 206th day - 159 days to come

Barbara Frances called. The mechanicals are ready. Will go there Tuesday at 10 to look over them.

Phil Orbanes here with his wife. With Allstate he is now working on an Astrology GAME which is actually not a game. There are a series of plastic overlays one for each planet, etc. Looking at your birthday on a listing gives the setting of the planets. When this is done a number appears next to each planet and the proper card from each planet's deck gives you your character reading. This will be sold thru supermarkets as a starting unit. Then additional sets of cards for different facets will be sold weekly. After this is underway they will start working on the other GameScience games. I told him more about the three Renwal games (TAM-BIT, etc.) and we both hope that the lines will be coordinated. He doesn't intend staying with Allstate after the con- tract stipulation that their games will be bought out for a fixed sum after a certain amount of royalties have been payed. He brought along a prospectus for a company called "INFINITY CORPORATION" which will be set us with him, Jim Dunnigan, and myself. I will be in charge of the G.A.M.E. division. It is an interesting idea but I'll have to do some thinking about it. During the day I ran off reproductions of the Joyce Brothers column and of my column on TAM-BIT. Gave Phil a copy of the former but forgot to give him the latter, which Jim wants to see before he comes here next Thursday. I'll mail it to him.

Got the 1937 patent numbers into order and copied them onto index cards.

(cont. from 7/26) [7/26]

Rcd. another letter from Schaaf saying he appreciated my sending him Martin's statement so he could classify my book intel- ligently.

BB & I played SUBWAY. Not very interesting. Primarily because each player played completely by himself. Then we played HYPER-SPACE. Good, but at first I interpreted the rules that a player didn't score for a mountain square until he reached it with his mountain team. Actually, according to the rules the mountain is scored as soon as it is turned over (explored). I think that my way would make for a more strategic game, tho a slower one. To stop the game from stopping prematurely (cont. on 7/20)

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English FRIDAY 25 JULY
St. James, Apostle 1969 206th day - 159 days to come


Barbara Frances called. The mechanicals are ready. Will go
there Tuesday at 10 to look over them.
Phil Orbanes here with his wife.
With Allstate he is now working on an Astrology GAME which
is actually not a game. There are a series of plastic
overlays one for each planet, etc. Looking at your
birthday on a listing gives the setting of the planets.
When this is done a number appears next to each
planet and the proper card from each planet's deck
gives you your character reading. This will be sold
thru supermarkets as a starting unit. Then additional
sets of cards for different facets will be sold weekly.
After this is underway they will start working on
the other GameScience games. I told him more about the
three Renwal games (TAM-BIT, etc.) and we both hope
that the lines will be coordinated.
He doesn't intend staying with Allstate after the con-
tract stipulation that their games will be bought out
for a fixed sum after a certain amount of royalties
have been payed.
He brought along a prospectus for a company called
"INFINITY CORPORATION" which will be set us with him,
Jim Dunnigan, and myself. I will be in charge of the
G.A.M.E. division. It is an interesting idea but I'll have
to do some thinking about it.
During the day I ran off reproductions of the Joyce
Brothers column and of my column on TAM-BIT. Gave
Phil a copy of the former but forgot to give him the
latter, which Jim wants to see before he comes here
next Thursday. I'll mail it to him.
Got the 1937 patent numbers into order and copied them
onto index cards.


(cont. from 7/26) [7/26]
Rcd. another letter from Schaaf saying he appreciated my sending
him Martin's statement so he could classify my book intel-
ligently.
BB & I played SUBWAY. Not very interesting. Primarily because
each player played completely by himself.
Then we played HYPER-SPACE. Good, but at first I interpreted the
rules that a player didn't score for a mountain square until he
reached it with his mountain team. Actually, according to the rules
the mountain is scored as soon as it is turned over (explored).
I think that my way would make for a more strategic game, tho
a slower one. To stop the game from stopping prematurely
(cont. on 7/20)