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22 Tuesday - May 1973
142nd Day - 223 Days to Come

Called Felicia in morning. Told her about HABITAT, GROOVE, and HOLEY TERROR (II) with House of Games and TAKE-A-WORD with Waddingtons. When I told her of Waddingtons 2 1/2% royalties she got on her high horse and said that that's what happens when I try to handle the business myself. I answered that I have no commitment to give him the game and that is why I am asking her as my agent whether I should give it to him. She backed down and said that Waddington is a reputable company and that they would probably sell enough to make us some money at 2 1/2%
I mentioned seeing Jerry Green of the Puzzle Factory and that TAKE-A-WORD would probably be just right for them. She said to forget about the Puzzle Factory - they don't pay royalties. We have a date Thursday at 1 to get together with Bob Johnson.
Call from Bob Gellman. He has Rick Lewis' art work on the PATTON board and is ready to send it in for plates. I said that I was supposed to have been contacted to check the preliminary. He said to come today, which I did. Found some errors and some things that I'd like changed. He called Rick and set up a date for Thursday at 3:30.// He wants the rules by 6/1 by the latest. Also the historical material.
To Stationery Show. To Gameophiles and started looking at rules for FLIP & FLOP.
Then Tom Atwater and Alex Randolph stopped by and I went off with them. The only new thing Alex has in the U.S. this year is MOEBIES. He has two things coming out in Germany this year with Ravensburg: - BANDA (OFF COURSE), and TING TONG (a children's memory game with objects hidden under bells). In 1974 he has the following coming out: - CORONA (ROUND THE CLOCK), QUARO (SPOTS - but improved), HEPTAD (7 puzzles on one side of the board and a game on the other side- all having something to do with the number 7), TOPPY (He prefers the name TOP DOG. There is a 21 space path. Players receive prizes, which vary with luck, for completing each lap. There are other novel features but I don't remember them.)
These games will be handled by Creative Playthings in the U.S. but Alex will ask them to send me copies. Another game of his that Ravensburg will be putting out in 1974 is ISHIDO (It will be on the back of a GO board. The board is marked with spots in a triangular pattern. Pcs. [pieces] of two colors are placed on the spots. The game is a NIM type, players in turn remove one or more pcs. in a connected group - color?. The amount taken cannot be the same as the opponent unless it is 1. It can be one more than opponent or any number less. Rough idea.)
Alex had GOOD KNIGHT and BUFFALO (I believe these are the two he said) with Hallmark.
Alex gave me a Chinese copy of THE JUNGLE GAME that he picked up in Hong Kong.
I gave Alex a copy of my S&T column with SQUARE OFF. I mistakenly told him that I had covered it in BOOK WORLD, but I was embarrassed when he found that I had done
(cont. on 5/3)

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