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WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 1969
St. Francis Xavier
337th day - 28 days to come

Brian Blake, John's brother, called at office. Gave me a little more
info on Harry Lorayne (he has taken his course) and we arranged
to meet at 6 in the Harvard Club tomorrow.

Felicia called for her house, sick with a sore throat. Postponed our
meeting today until next Friday Gave her a quick report of my meeting
with Jerry last night,

BB called me. [illegible crossed out] A letter from Alex Randolph came. He was very unhappy with my introduction to him. He was hurt that I never
responded to his long letter of June 1968 wher in which he e gave me a preface for the book, his ideas on other parts of the book, and the rules for Pickwick and ROUND THE CLOCK.

Had an idea for another GAME for the Engay mailing. Have squares of cardboard in three colors, with three designs in white (square, cindle, cross) in the center. There are a combinations and 4 sets give a total of 36 pieces, These are placed at random in a 6x6 layout, 2 play one can take from horizontal rows, the other from vertical colunins. As many adjacent pieces in a row or column can be taken as are connected by color on shape, For instance if a red square is next to a blue square which is next to a blue cross, all three can be taken ! etc Pieces that are next to each other across one or more empty spaces are considered adjacent, A player does not have to take as many in a row on column as he is entitled to, and may take as little as one. (Possible other idea: a single piece cannot be taken and Some pieces can be left at the end. This could be workea into a solitaire.) Players scope one point for each piece they end up with. In case of tie, and player wins, other scoring possibilities - Scone for getting 3 or 4 of identical pieces. score for emptying a now or columnot a Red, MYSTERY SQUARE-A PARADOX PUZZLE from Harold Brodsky. See 11/30) Not very interesting... Red, a letter from Arnold Shapiro. He red. AGOGO No action on their game program, just hopes. Rcd. Nov. THE GAMESLETTER. Had a good (preliminary) review of AGOG Also a vignette on me Played COUNTERPOINT with BB. Worked well, except that a player could hold onto the game color. Also the other Player could block a score in this color by continual defensive moves later thought that it probably would be better to have a player give up the chip of the color (cont, on 11/30) VES,