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12 Friday - January 1973
12th Day - 353 Days to Come

TIME Magazine of 1/8 had an article in "Modern Living" on INTERFACE (a 3-hand CHESS game) and THREE PLAYER CHESS, by Robert Zubrin. (Filed in '73 Misc. [1973 miscellaneous])

Rcd. [received] a letter from Colin Haycraft of Gerald Duckworth. They are undecided about AGOG and will not stand in my way if I have other chances.
Letter from Jim Scully. Mentioned CARD FOOTBALL. He is sending me a hand- made copy of his TALLY (previously FORESIGHT).
Rcd. a letter, thru Random House, from George Reinfeld, an AGOG reader. Mentioned BACKGAMMON, 1914, BLITZKRIEG, UNCLE WIGGILY, LOTTO, and CAMALOT. He invests GAMEs himself.
Letter from Haar Hoolim. Mentioned STACK UP (OrDa's new name for UP), an OrDa booklet with BARRICADE (new name for STOPLO), TAKE ALL, MATTRIX, SPELLBOUND, STACK UP, MAXIMATH, CAPTURE. Also mentioned LET ME THINK, ANTIGRACITATION, TIC-TAC, ZERO-G, BRAINY BLOCKS, Q-SETS, Q-BITS, CHINESE MATCHING CARDS, LAS VEGAS POKER, and FOCUS.
Carbon of letter Leonard Willett sent to N.Y. State Tax Office.

Rcd. a U.P.S. package from "Education Ventures, Inc." with the following: GARBAGE, GENERATION, and PINK PEBBLES.

Wrote to Alister MacIntyre (see 10/5/73). Mentioned REVOLT!, OPERATION CONTACT, THE GAMESLETTER, GAMBIT, VEGAS, DICTATOR. Sent him repro of back of TRIPPPLES box.

Thought of an idea for a sliding block game - later called PUSH OVER.

(cont. from 1/15) [1/16]

THE INVISIBLE MAN. He'll add my HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME and Claude's Auction GAME and mail it to HASBRO.
I asked Arthur how his "secret" project was doing. He had written to all the psychiatrists listed in the telephone book, telling them about their (Arthur & Wald's) games, particularly FOLLY. Only one answered but he interested some of his colleagues and they have been getting together. Arthur and Wald give each one of them a free set of DRAGON and some of them have bought sets of the HIGHDECK.

Played PUSH OVER again with BB. Made a recard of one of the setups and played it again. I won both ways.

[started 1/16]