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DECEMBER 1976 - MONDAY 20
355TH DAY - 11 DAYS TO COME
Logomachy gives rules for NINE COLUMN UNCRASH and an ALPHABETICAL UNCRASH variation
Rcd. NOST-ALGIA #199. Phil Cohen gives annotated game of
SPHERICAL CHESS, rules for DZIEJMA by Alan Dziejma.
Rcd. X'Mas card from Phil Orbanes and family.
Rcd. envelope from Phil Orbanes with rules for NET WORTH, with short note.
Rcd. X'Mas card from Mike Abrams.
Made new layout for ROUND & ROUND and, since I had used the
original art of SEARCH by mistake, I taped on a repro of SEARCH
for getting repros tomorrow. Made a new double layout for PEACE CONFERENCE.
Before this wrote rough rules for PEACE CONFERENCE, SEARCH,
ROUND & ROUND, and RESOURCES. BB typed them in the evening.
Played 3-hand PEACE CONFERENCE, with BB and Dana. Turned over
a card from the 4th hand for all to see. Discovered that each
player, in turn, can be allowed to form bipartite agreements - the
others playing cards a distance away. One possible correction is
to need 4 (or possibly 5) bipartates to win.
(cont. from 12/21) [12/21]
To S.P.I. Took the 3 sheets of "Soviet Units for WAR IN THE EAST (II)
(see 12/10.).
Took duplicate copy of S & T #58. Enclosed loose folder for
"Metagaming Concepts" (which I filed in their folder). Advertised
are: THE SPACE GAMER Mag., THE YTHRI, CITADEL [Fantasy Games],
ROYAL ARMIES OF THE HYBOREAN AGE (Rules), EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE,
STAR PROBE, STARLORD, TUNNELS AND TROLLS, NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION HOMEGAME,
IMPERIALISM, STELLAR CONQUEST, MONSTERS! MONSTERS! (Rules);
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS (Rules), DRAGON PASS (new name for WHITE BEAR AND RED MOON),
TRIPLANETARY, WAR OF WIZARDS, DUNGEON!, STARSHIP COMBAT.
Took 3 duplicate copies of MOVES #29.
Took 3 copies of MOVES #30. "Work in Progress" mentions
OCTOBER WAR, BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM '67, WAR IN THE PACIFIC,
FULDA GAP: THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE NEXT WAR, AIR WAR '78,
THE CONQUERORS, LORD OF THE RINGS, VERA CRUZ, BATTLEFLEET MARS,
THE CAMPAIGN FOR NORTH AFRICA, WACHT AM RHEIN. Article on strategy -
showing WURZBURG. New scenarios for CA; RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR (Solitaire).
Profile of EMPEROR OF CHINA. "Footnotes" on SNIPER! and PATROL!.
Start of reader vs. Redmund game of NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO. Two
articles on FIREFIGHT. New scenarios for DREADNOUGHT; GLOBAL WAR.
Profile of TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD. Review of AVALANCHE (GDW) by
Richard Berg.
Spoke to Jim Dunnigan and told him that I felt a little left out at not
being included in the group photo in S & T. He was a little sorry.
Wanted to speak to Howie Barasch about routing some of the non-war
games to me. But he was busy with a visitor.
Bob Gellman with the 4 pawns (see 12/17). I asked and he
told me to help myself. Took 6 packages of pawns - 4 - each of
white, yellow, green, and brown in each.
[?]d send up lunch. Bob mentioned that Charlie Philips had been in and
spoke of meeting me. I asked if he was doing any games for them.
(cont. on 12/19)