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14 Sunday - January 1973
Second Sunday After Epiphany - 14th Day - 351 Days to Come

Made a finished model for PUSH OVER. Played it by myself and with BB. Good.

Call from Claude. He saw Wexler and Strongin Friday about PATH-A-LOGICAL, CULPRET, etc. He told Wexler about my idea on piling 3 high in PATH-A-LOGICAL, but Wexler said that would make it too much like his THREE UP (which I had also felt). They paid Claude the $100 but complained, under the guise of a joke, that he hadn't really done anything for it.
Wexler showed him another GAME played on a 5x5x5 field using ping-pong balls as markers. But the game was simply that of getting 3 in a row which was impossibly easy for the first player. Wexler first stated that he couldn't pay Claude to look at it.
They'll call Claude if they want him to do any further work.

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

some choice. Players are dealt 8 of these cards. They then make 1 or 2 bets. They have 8 "betting cards" and two of these are placed face down with the size of the bet on top. 6 of the cards indicate an "investment" and "direction." One is a "bluff" card and the bet placed on it doesn't count. The last is a "doubling" card which (I believe) doubles the value of the other bet. After betting players play their cards one at a time, using their choice cards in the way they think most advantageous - and probably not all of the cards are played. At the end of the hand players collect or play according to the correctness of their bet and the position reached. Thus if a player bets on a certain "investment" to go up and it reaches +3 he collects 3x his bet. After the first round the markers remain where they are and another is used to indicate the position. If a player bets on an "investment" when it is at -3 for instance, it must go up to +1 before he can start winning. In between he only gets his money back. Not sure if a player can play a card that will bring an "investment" passed the end. If he can, it then goes back to the middle. (Fairly complete idea.)
Phil was talking with Jim Dunnigan and Jim told him that Simulations had had their first $100,000 month (in Dec.?). Phil doesn't think that that is enough since December is the high point of the year.
Carl Eisenberg contacted Phil and bought out Pgil's rights to a cheaper version of AQUARIUS 2000 for $2,500.
Carl wanted to buy out our contract for the p&p games - CHINESE CHECK, COUNTERPOINT, etc. for $4,000 to each of us, but he would honor the contract if we prefer the royalties. Phil thought we should hold out and I agreed. Phil thinks that Hoi Poloi offers a little more than they estimate the 1st year's royalties would be.
I asked about Mag-Nif and Phil said that he hadn't tried to contact Bill Knox. Carl tells that Knox does that to everyone
(cont on 1/15)