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[date written in top left of page 11/20]
November 1975 - Friday 21
Presentation of B. V. Mary - 325th day - 40 days to come

Sent check for $2.25 and note to Marilyn Nierenberg.
At bazaar in Yonkers bought the following: JOHNATHON LIVINGSTON SEAGULL - $1.50; ICOSA-TENSOGRAM kit - 50¢; OOP STIX - 25¢ (base missing - also some pcs. [pieces] missing and broken); ice tray for mini-cubes with 6x15 layout - 25¢.
Rcd. [received] G&P #43. "Games Centre" adds the following games to the listing they gave last month: BRIDGETTE, CARTEL, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, 1829, GOTCHER, HEX, (colour matching - which must be Spear's), INFINITY, MANCALA, MY WORD, NORTH SEA OIL, ORGANIZED CRIME, PHILATELY, REALM, SPACE 1999, SQUASP (which I am pretty sure replaces the SQUASH in last issue), WORD POWER. "Christmas Crackers" lists the gives rules for the following games: DICE TENNIS, CRICKET, WE THREE KINGS, NAVAL BOMBARDMENT, THE L. O. GAME, HIGHWAY ROBBERY, THE NETWORK GAME, and ARROW OF LETTERS (these are new games or variations of existing simple games).
Article by R. C. Bell giving rules for SURROUNDING THE KINGS, (O-SHO ZEME), HASAMI SHOGI (1 & 2 - two different games), TOBI SHOGI (JUMPING SHOGI), FURI SHOGI (SHAKING SHOGI), MAWARI SHOGI (RACING SHOGI), UKE-SHOGI (RECEIVING CHESS), and THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE ZENKOJI TEMPLE.
Rules for a new card game - OCTAGON.
"Play Room" gives problems in BACKGAMMON, DRAUGHTS, MASTER MIND, EPAMINONDAS, and FAIRY GO.
The first 20 games of the year by reader voting are: SCRABBLE, MASTER MIND, DIPLOMACY, MONOPOLY, HARE & TORTOISE, CLEUDO, FORMULA 1, RISK, THOUGHTWAVE, 4000 A.D., ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ, ELECTION (X), THE SIGMA FILE, THE BUSINESS GAME, SEASTRIKE, SLEUTH, SPECULATE, ACQUIRE, FLUTTER, CAMPAIGN.
Ad by "Omnia" for NORTH SEA OIL and SPACE: 1999.
"Gamesviews" of STOCKS AND BONDS, PRESS-UPS, and BASEBALL STRATEGY. Ads for ADVICE (Inquot), GOTCHER and TRAKA (Dacoll). Several articles on CHESS.
David Parlett surveys the following books: THE PAN BOOK OF CARD GAMES, THE HAMLYN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF CARD GAMES, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF PATIENCE GAMES, HOYLE'S RULES OF GAMES (Morehead & Mott-Smith), SCARNE ON CARDS, HOYLE'S MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD GAMES (W. Gibson), WADDINGTON'S FAMILY CARD GAMES, ALL ABOUT CRIBBAGE, PLAYING CARDS AND THEIR STORY, COLLECTING PLAYING CARDS, PILLOW PROBLEMS AND A TANGLED TALE (Lewis Carroll), MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS (Kraitchik), THE MASTER BOOK OF MATHEMATICAL GAMES FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. }Surveyed by David Wells.
Ad for TRIPPPLES, INTERSECTION, TOTALLY, PUSHOVER, BARRIER, BALI. Ad for books: TANTALIZERS, FURTHER MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS and NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS (both by Martin Garnder) Ad for CHAIN REACTION (M. Petrushkin Ltd.) - based on REVERSI. Ad for GAME OF ANCIENT KINGDOMS (KINGDOMS) by and 1829 - (Hartland). Ad for MONEY-GO-ROUND, STRATEGY, JACKPOT, TOURNAMENT GOLF,
(cont. on 11/20)

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