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October 1975 - Saturday 18
St. Luke, Evangelist - 291st day - 74 days to come

To Bloomingdale's to plug BEYOND TIC TAC TOE. Barbara Weinstein was quite helpful and the children - all boys for the first per- formance and all girls for the second - were a delight. I signed one book for two boys and another for Jean Green.
Thinking of another deductive word GAME. Players try to be the first to discover the opponent's word by getting information on how many letters are before or after the a chosen letter or between two chosen letters. In the basic game a player must say if there is a double letter in his word. In the advanced game-not.
[to the side of previous paragraph]
BEFORE [square] -- [circle]
AFTER [square] -- [circle]
BETWEEN [square][square] -- [circle]
BEFORE [square] -- [circle]
Rcd. letter from Violet I. Gunther offering me 5 sheets with black and white pictures of old and exotic cards - from LESLIE'S mag. $5.00.
At a bazaar at County Center bought a beaded "necktie" for 25¢. Broke it down into a lot of small red, white, and blue beads.

(cont. from 10/17) [10/17]

and finally the designated ball - splitting it apart (it is hinged).
(Fairly complete idea.)
At same store they had a lot of TOTALLY and BARRIER and a few TRIPPPLES.
At Claude's notice a game TRIPTIC (which was the same as TRI-TAC-TOE). Claude asked me to take it just to get it out of his way. (Actually the post for constructing the field are missing.)
Payed Claude $2 for the copy of QUIEN SABÉ. (Parker 1906). Claude had a letter from Phil Cohen asking for his desicision decision on a player who can't move in LOA. Phil said it is his second fav- orite game - after GO. He has played it a 6x6 on a 6x6 and on a 19x19 field. He has played 3-hand HEXALOA. And he has an idea for a variation STACKING LOA. A player can land on one or more of his own pcs. - forming a stack. All pcs. in a stack are counted in the line of movement. Pcs. are moved from a stack one at a time.
In morning worked on a diagram for WORD RACE. (Yesterday I played around with one circuit. Seems O.K.)
At Claude's he showed me some of his DIABOLIC SQUARES puzzles. I found them rather easy, even the one he said was very hard - he didn't tell me which numbers to use or the required total. He said he could come up with some harder ones.
Looked at the book - THE EXECUTIVE STRATEGIST and decided that I wanted to buy a copy.

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