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9 Tuesday - January 1973
9th Day - 356 Days to Come

Rcd. [received] a letter from Lou Zocchi. Mentioned AMERICAN GAMES ASSOCIATION, STAR TREK BATTLE MANUAL, and selling by mail.

Got an idea for THE BRAIN GAME. After all of the cards have been taken, a new phase begins. Each time a player throws the dice and gets 2 matching numbers he can buy any card from my opponent for $1,000 x the sum of the three dice - only one card. If he gets a triple he can buy two cards, at the price determined by the sum for each.

Sent the rules for DELPHI and the magazine copy of THE CITIES GAME to Don Turnbull. Sent it airmail - printed matter. It couldn't be sealed, except for the metal clasp, but it cost $.90 instead of $2.10 for regular airmail.

To Simulations. Al Nofi not in so I spoke to Jim Dunnigan. He told me that Al Nofi had a call (from Bob Gellman) about a PATTON game, but Al had said they weren't interested. (Bob did tell me about calling Simulations.) I borrowed a book on Patton. When leaving a note on Al's desk I noticed the 2nd edition of THE GUIDE TO SIMULATIONS/GAMES FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING which just arrived. Asked Jim and he said it would be O.K. to borrow it.
In Al's office looked at SIMULATION & GAMES (vol. 3, no. 3), a quarterly magazine. Was going to reproduce it but didn't get the opportunity.
Made 11 repros [reproductions] of the back of the new TRIPPPLES box, which has all the info necessary to play the game.
Made repros of some pages from the magazine TOY REVIEW (which I borrowed from Claude last year). Among other things there were reviews for KALAH, WHIRLING DERBY, THE BLACK EXPERIENCE, LITTERBUG, GENERATION RAP, ORION, VERTIGO, GARBAGE GAME. (Filed in '73 misc.)
Saw Phil and got a copy of WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN, also MOVES #6. Had a short game THE BATTLE OF MAIDA.

To Felicia's. Odette Willis there with a valise full of games and game material by Lucien Vittet. Felicia and I looked at LE JEU DU 420. It was (as I remembered) very fancily packed, but an ordinary type of word game.
Looking thru the valise I came across a game, THE LION'S SHARE, which also had been published. There is a 4x4 field with different numbers in each square in an irregular pattern. Each player has his own separate, but identical, field. One player is the "Hunter", the other the "Lion." Didn't get all the info, but it is something like this. Each player puts aside some money (how much?) as the "Lion's Share." Then secretly each places his marker on one of the spaces. The hunter decides whether he wants to buy 6 bullets on 3 for half the price. Both players mark the number on dial. The hunter can
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