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16 Tuesday - January 1973
16th Day - 349 Days to Come

To Zeke Rose. He took me to lunch and we discussed the Ideal line in general. He will send me an invite to their showroom during Toy Fair and I will see the specific games. He doesn't believe there will be any new games similar in type to THE BOSS. // Gave him my S&T review of the THE BOSS.
Ideal has bought out "Alabe Crafts" who put out MAGIC "8" BALL FORTUNE TELLER. Two new GAMEs will be coming out under this label, for sale thru stationery stores.

To "Gamut of Games." Played 2 games of REALM with him and lost. The starting positions are set up by each player in turn setting a "Base," with no two on the same row or column belonging to the same player. Then continue by placing the "Powers" (newest terminology) in the spaces with the Bases. While playing I made up a quick table of what happens when a player in his turn moves an "Interceptor" (middle pc. [piece] - and I didn't like the name) into a realm.

[table with 4 columns and 3 rows. The columns describe effects in the game and the rows describe the conditions that result in those effects. The rows have check marks for the effects that apply to that condition. Column 1: Remove BASE without loss of Interceptor. Column 2: Remove BASE with loss of Interceptor. Column 3: Immobilize an enemy Interceptor without loss of own. Column 4: Opponents and own Interceptors immobilized. Row 1: Attacker has 2 or 3 more powers (columns 1 and 3 checked). Row 2: Attacker has 1 more power (columns 2 and 3 checked). Row 3: Attacker has same or less powers (column 4 checked).]

Enemy Interceptors must be immobilized before a base in that realm can be removed. A new base cannot be built while an enemy power is in the realm.
The game plays quite well now.
Looked at the art work on REALM and the other games. Liked it all except for INFINITY. Made some suggestions about the copy on REALM.
Phil asked if I had any suggest card games for the low ticket line they are considering. I told him about WHAT'S IT WORTH TO YOU? and he thought it would be just right - changing the 8 different catagories to different types of "collections."
He is interested in a gambling GAME to be packed in a box that looks like a pile of banknotes with a rubber band around it. He'd like it to be something like THE MONEY GAME which Jim Dunnigan did several years ago (and is willing to cut Jim in).
I asked him about his own game PRIX. He'd like to use it but Carl Eisenberg has it tied up. I asked how it was played and he told me the following. There are 3 "investments." All have a "neutral" space. One has spaces from -1 to -4 on one side and from +1 to +4 on the other. The 2nd goes from -5 to +5, and the 3rd from -6 to +6. There is a set of cards indicating the "investment" and a direction - "up or down" - and a number. The numbers are mainly 1, going up to a very few 4s. Also a number of cards give
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