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14 SATURDAY - OCTOBER 1972
<br>288TH DAY - 78 DAYS TO COME


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Rcd. [received] letter from <u>Don Turnbull</u>. <u>''ALBION''</u> no. 40 is in the mail. Also
he is sending me more repros [reproductions] of the early issues. Apparantly [apparently]
<u>Graeme Levin</u> didn't deliver my letter to him.
He mentions <u>FEUDAL</u>, <u>PLOY</u>, <u>ACQUIRE</u>, <u>STOCKS AND BONDS</u>, <u>BAZAAR</u>,
<u>THE CITIES GAMES</u>, <u>''G & P''</u>, Graeme Levin, <u>Jim Dunnigan</u>, and <u>Omar DeWitt</u>.
Wrote to <u>Don</u>, telling him to hold up with sending things because
of our upcoming visit. Told him of letter, <u>''AGOG''</u>, and <u>NEXT PRESIDENT</u>
with Graeme.
Started lining up the games for inclusion in my next <u>''S & T''</u> col-
umn. Came up with the following:- <u>BLOCK 'N SCORE</u>, <u>CHESSWORD</u>,
<u>Y</u> & <u>MUDCRACKY</u> & <u>POLY-Y</u>, <u>SQUARE OFF</u>, <u>BEAT DETROIT</u>,
<u>EMPEROR OF CHINA</u>, <u>ON-WORDS</u>, <u>MYWORD!</u>, <u>THE BOSS</u>,
<u>THE U.S. AUTO CLUB RACING GAME</u>, <u>INTERNATIONAL SKI TEAM RACE</u>,
<u>STRATO CHECKERS</u>, <u>NEOCHESS</u>, <u>THE HOWARD HUGHES GAME</u> (if
I get it in time), <u>ECCENTRIC</u> (possibly).
In looking at the prices I discovered that I made a
mistake in my last <u>''S & T''</u> column and in the <u>''BOOK WORLD''</u>
column in the list price of <u>STRATO TAC-TICS</u>. I gave
the wholesale price - $11.50 rather than the retail - $20.00. <br>
Have glossies of <u>CHESSWORD</u>, <u>STRATO CHECKERS</u>, <u>SQUARE OFF</u>, & <u>BEAT DETROIT</u>.
Called <u>Phil Orbanes</u> to get the list price of <u>MYWORD!</u> - $5.95. <br>
We discussed the deal with <u>Fred Feucht</u> and M.B. [Milton Bradley] I told him
that I thought the chances with M.B. are less bad than with
Post, so that it would make more sense to present
<u>TAKE-A-WORD</u> to M.B. Phil agreed.
He said that <u>Carl Eisenberg</u> didn't like the name
<u>CONNECTIONS</u>. Also he'd prefer the game with an <s>abstract</s>
abstract setup instead of the U.S. I'll have to work one
out. Phil suggested the name <u>MISSING LINK</u>. Phil thought I
could then make a similar railroad game for <u>Fred Feucht</u>, but
I said that Fred is not crazy about the railroad theme. I
brought up that if "Gamut of Games" ever does <u>AIRLINE</u>
we'll be able to include the short version.
Altho [although] Carl likes <u>XANDO</u> and <u>HEXOWORD</u>, Phil was trying to
think of a word game set up something like <u>NINE LIVES</u> so
that I could use <u>HEXOWORD</u> for Fred Feucht (this was be-
fore I brought up <u>TAKE-A-WORD</u>).
<u>Al Richter</u> and I played <u>MYWORD!</u> I nosed him out on the 6-
letter word and clobbered him on the 7-letter.  <br>
Gave him a <u>NO-WAY</u> problem, and then we worked on it to-
gether. Then looked at some that I couldn't avoid entering
a circle twice. Tried to eliminate the problem by putting more
lines at the periphery. Found one that just couldn't be solved,
altho we stayed up til 4 working on it.
Gave Al my extra copy of <u>MYWORD!</u>.