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look at them. I'll be there Friday morning. | look at them. I'll be there Friday morning. | ||
<u>Red Simensen</u> called to ask me whether | <u>Red Simensen</u> called to ask me whether the big game companies <br> | ||
had their own art departments. I told him that I thought <br> | |||
that 3M did, but that I wasn't sure. It had something to do <br> | |||
with an article but I didn't get the details. | |||
Did a little work on writing up <u>AIRPORT</u> for my column. | |||
Started work on <u>SCOTLAND YARD</u> and did most of the board. | |||
Call from <u>Martin Gardner</u>. Someone, an expert on graph theory, <br> | |||
wrote to him with a generalized solution to games of <br> | |||
which <u>SLITHER</u> is a specific instance, in which points are <br> | |||
connected in a continuous path. The points can be in any <br> | |||
arrangement, in any number of planes and dimensions. With <br> | |||
an even number of points, connect them so that each point <br> | |||
is connected to one another - any one. The first player then <br> | |||
plays on a connection line, etc. With an odd number, after <br> | |||
the first player plays the second player then makes the <br> | |||
connections | |||