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14 Friday - November 1975
318th day - 47 days to come

From S&R rcd. rules and layout for BY MAIL/SOLITAIRE SCRABBLE CROSSWORD GAME.

(cont. from 11/15) [11/24]

NATO (SPI), STARFORCE (SPI), SEVEN DAY'S BATTLE (Battleline), TANK! (SPI), FREDERICK THE GREAT (SPI), GLOBAL WAR (SPI); WATERLOO (A.H.), BATTLE OF THE BULGE (A.H.), CRETE (SPI), WORLD WAR I (SPI) - tese four missed and added at the end.
"Wargames Beyond the Seas" mentions ALBION, DELCINE AND FALL, Donal Turnbull, DIPLOMACY, EUROPA.
Article on TANK! Ad for INVASION: AMERICA.
Rcd. a catalog from A.H. which nicely catoregizes [sic] their lines: "Mail-Order" - TOBRUK, CAESER'S LEGIONS, FRANCE 40 (also a few in retail stores); CHANCELLORSVILLE, JUTLAND, ANZIO (all 3 revised from the original). "Family" - WORD POWER, OUTDOOR SURVIVAL, BEAT INFLATION STRATEGY, BUSINESS STRATEGY, SHAKESPEARE, TUF, TUFABET, THE STOCK MARKET GAME. "Sports" - BASEBALL STRATEGY, FOOTBALL STRATEGY, BASKETBALL STRATEGY. "For the Novice" - TACTICS II (redesigned), KRIEGSPIEL, GETTYSBURG, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II, AFRIKA KORPS. "Intermediate Level" - BATTLE OF THE BULGE, MIDWAY, WATERLOO, D-DAY, WOODEN SHIPS & IRON MEN, RICHTOFEN'S WAR, STALINGRAD, BLITZKRIEG. "Tournament Level" - THIRD REICH, PANZERBLITZ, 1776, LUFTWAFFE, PANZERLEADER.
POST had an "Inside Fashion" article on COUNTERSTRIKE, a new game in the same vein as BACKGAMMON. (Filed in '75 misc.)
[double arrow pointing to row above and row below] [started 11/24]
Call from Pierre Berloquin in the evening, from Kennedy. He is working on a newspaper GAME for LE MONDE, and Miro will pub- lish it. He has a new play principle. He asked me what games have been done based on newspapers. Told him about SCOOP (P.), STAR REPORTER (P) and THE FRONT PAGE. He didn't seem to be in- terested in the details.
I asked him to keep an eye on interesting new French games for me. He said that not much is being done. He did say that there is a GAME that uses pcd. similar to Mark Odier's. It is put out by "Compagnie Géneral de Jouet" (C.G.J.) and he'll send me a copy.
I tried to emphasize that we could, and should, help each other. I mentioned that my getting him together with Martin Gardner had been good for both of them. He said that appreciate it very much.
This morning in talking about the doing in Washington, he mentioned that in a newspaper interview Randy Barton couldn't answer any ques- tions on the history of MONOPOLY.

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