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October 1975 - Friday 24
United Nations Day - 297th day - 68 days to come

Rcd. package of 4 games from Robert Brass: DECK AB! (COVER UP), TOTEM, SAFARI ROUND UP, DRAG-OMINOS.
Thinking more about the word GAME with the topological twist. Remembered that Claude once had a somewhat similar idea. Found it on 8/22/64: unnamed GAME.
Thinking of a different approach - a large quadrille of letters. "Chunks" are marked of and players make words - taking letters in order from left to right and down lines, but skipping any number of letters between. Later decided that it would be better to allow letters to be taken in any order.

(cont. from 10/22) [10/23]

distribution: A-5, B-2, C-2, D-3, E-8, F-2, G-2, H-2, I-5, J-1, K-1, L-3, M-Z, N-4, O-5, P-2, Q-1, R-4, S-3, T-4, U-3, V-2, W-2, X-1, Y-2, Z-1.
Each player in turn throws the 12 dice and tries to form as long a word as he can as fast as he can. He pays $1 per second for the first 15 seconds and $2 per second for the second 15 seconds (30 seconds is the maximum time). The player collects according to the length of the word formed: - 1 - $10, Z- $20, 3 - $30, 4 - $40, 5 - $50, 6 - $70, 7- $100, 8 - $140, 9 - $190, 10 - $250, 11 - $320, 12 - $400. There is some provision for "side bets" but it doesn't seem to add anything to the game.
Told Felicia it might be interesting - she had a descrip- tion instead of a model. She'll have the inventor bring in a model.
During my visit she rcd. a call from Joseph Scott and when he heard I was there he wanted to say hello. He told me that he saw me mentioned a lot in G&P.
I looked in the closet to see what came back from Hallmark of mine: DIGIT, TROMINO GO, PE-LING, ANOTHER, and RED LETTER. (Didn't check to see if anything was missing, TAKE-A-WORD was also back from Aladdin. And from before there was THE WINNING TICKET and SHAPE AND SHATTER. She asked me to take Claude's DUEL to return to him.
To S.P.I. Spoke to Redmund and he assured me that all of the games I wrote up will be in S&T no. 53. The next column is due in seven weeks.
Took a boxed set of NAPOLEON AT WAR (which I later discovered was a duplicate.) Also took folio copies of the four individual games: JENA-AUERSTADT, MARENGO, WAGRAM, THE BATTLE OF NATIONS.
Made repros of rules for GAMBIT, ZODIAC STAR CHESS, and PHALANX (also pieces for PHALANX) - to send to Phil Cohen.
Spoke to Richard Berg. He said he hasn't seen anything new of interest lately.
Vincent Grissino there with his game SHIFT. We played
(cont. on 10/25)

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