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19 Sunday - December 1976
Fourth Sunday of Advent - 354th day - 12 days to come

At bazaars in Queens bought: 5 small pads - 5¢ each; a lot of white buttons - 30¢; set of "Dual Dominoes" - 33'3¢. At flea market on Northern Blvd. bought TALLYTT (The Maxim Games Co.) for 25¢. No rules but patent no. 2, 205, 440 is listed. Also bought a puzzle, DOUBLE DARE for $1.00. At a bazaar also bought 13 assorted erasors [sic] for 55¢.
Played PEACE CONFERENCE and SEARCH with the Horns. logomachy gives rules for NINE COLUMN UNCRASH and a variation of ALPHABETICAL UNCRASH.

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No, he was just saying hello, Bob thinks he is more of a Toy man than a game man.
Bob had me go over the galleys of the "Game Rug"BACKGAMMON rules. We also went over the correction for "The Game Rug" and THE GAME CUBE. Spent about 2 hours. // The secretary gave me the folder and letter on SHAMAAT I had seen previously. They were going to mail it.
To Felicia. Took the model of [illegible word crossed out] DIAMOND MINE. She was looking for the models of PRIMO and FORTUNA but couldn't find them. She called M.B. [Milton Bradley] to check with Dick Harris, but "he is no longer with us." She was connected to Jim Houlihan who wouldn't say anything more than "it was amicable." He will be in charge until Jim Walsh (a new man I believe) takes over. Someone had called them about making up business GAMES for a captive audience for a fee. He gave them her name - but she hasn't heard from them yet.
Felicia said that Andrea Green had told her that a lot of M.B. people were showing up at Parker. Something must be cooking.
Felicia showed me a game, ASSAULT ON MT. EVEREST, that Herb Roth will be handling. I told her that it was definitely something that S&T [Strategy & Tactics] readers might find interesting. She called Herb in and he said to take it.
While the three of us were talking it came up that the FCC was (or is it they are contemplating) stopping sales of the video games. People are complaining of damage to their TV sets.
Herb rcd. a flyer from "Metagaming Concepts" and wondered what it was all about. I told him, and he said to take the flyer. Later went in to his office to get the list price of ASSAULT ON MT. EVEREST - $10.00. Saw a box called CORRAL and asked if it was new or an old one. Crisloid (I believe) is now putting it out, altho it is an old game. I'll get a review copy sometime.
Felicia showed me the rules for THE COLLECTOR but, since Larry & Pearl Winters had already been to Baltimore to iron out the problems, I didn't bother reading them.
Looked at a game CAMOUFLAGE that Felicia had in closet. The [sic] is a set of cards with short words, such as "Me". A player takes a card and then writes a sentence with the short word hidden it as many times as possible - as part of another words [sic] or bridging two words - in correct order or backwards. A number is given as a hint; either

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