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Title
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1969_Sackson_353_November 29.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1969
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Type
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image
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Format
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.jpg
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Source
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Box 1, Object 7, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1969
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 1969
333rd day - 32 days to come
Rcd. A letter from Father Daniel. He rcd. and liked AGOG.
He sent me rules for ANAGO, a word game, and asked for
advice on marketing.
Rcd. a letter from "Game of the Month Club" (N.J.). WORD POWER
is the monthly choice, and nothing else of interest.
Went over the rules Jim Rockwell sent me for TEMPO,
INTERPLAY, and ODD OR EVEN sent me. Wrote letter to Jim Rockwell.
Painted blue squares for COUNTERPOINT.
John Geiger over in the evening after demonstrating LOGI-QUAD
& METRO-MOSAIC at Brentano's with Heather - his daughter.
She saw two purchases of AGOG
John brought me a Brentano's catalog. It listed VENTURE,
MONAD, and METRO-MOSAIC, among others.
He brought me the "Creative Playthings" rules for LOGI-QUAD,
which I placed in the one of the boxes.
At one time the rules for LOGI-QUAD allowed gave a player
an additional move after each score. He eliminated this in
order to save on the number of balls necessary for
the game. When, and if, he manufactures his own balls he
will be able to include more and will give this as an
alternate rule. It makes for a faster game.
We discussed his putting out PATTERNS II. An opaque box
for each grid will take care of the secrecy, and two
different shades of the 4 colors will take care of
differentiating information & guesses, and black (or
possibly white) balls can be use[d] for requesting information.
Over 400 balls will be necessary, however, which will
make the price too high. Pieces of an extruded tube could
be used and these would be a lot cheaper. He will check
into the various problems. When, and if, he is ready we
will go together to Fabio, or I will go alone to check the
form of the credit to AGOG and Random House.
Played COUNTERPOINT with Phil and it worked well. Then
the 4 of us played and in two seperate games an
impasse developed when each side was using two colors
without any possibility of scoring, but taking the fifth
color would be a losing move. The first time I thought
of forcing the leading side to break the impasse. But the
2nd one developed before either side had scored.
Bernie Newman called. Told me about AGOG in SATURDAY REVIEW.
They are still trying to get Ed-U-Cards from E.S.R. Meade
Paper had put in an offer but something fell thru. He
will keep me posted.
