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17 Tuesday - July 1973
198th Day - 167 Days to Come

Rcd. NOSTALGIA #158 (and sent a card to Bob Lauzon telling him). Mentions SHOGI, VERTICAL CYLINDER, COMPROMISE CHESS, CRASH, EULER SQUARES, GIVEAWAY CHECKERS, LINES OF ACTION, NINE MAN MORRIS, SALVO, TEEKO, SECRET WORD, UNCRASH, CROSSINGS, DEPLOYMENT, GO-MOKU, KNIGHT CHASE, PAPER BOXING, REVERSI, BLUE AND GRAY, CHESKERS, CHOMP, HEX, CAMELOT, INTERNATIONAL CHECKERS, LAP, LAST WORD, THREE MUSKETEERS, NETWORK, OWARE, PENTOMINOES, PARITY, SINKO, SPROUTS, SQUARES, 3D TICTACTOE. In Phil Cohen's column - ULTIMA and SPROUTS.

Rcd. [received] an invoice from Hoi Polloi saying they had sent me a "5-d2 assortment pack" (VEGAS, CHINESECHEK, DAM-IT!, WORDPLAY, NINETACTOE).

Rcd. PANZERFAUST #58. Ads and articles on ALEXANDER THE GREAT, DUNKIRK, THE BATTLE OF FRANCE, FIGHT IN THE SKIES, 1944, DRANG NACH OSTEN! ($13.75), UNENTSCHIEDEN! ($11.85), GOTTERDAMERUNG! ($9.65), ROMMEL, VERDUN, WATERLOO, SOLO WARGAMING (book by Donald Featherstone), BATTLE FLAG (magazine), OVERLORD. On Separate sheets ads for ALESIA, HADRIAN'S WALL, CROMWELL, OPERATION 'COMPASS', THE BALKAN POWDER KEG (All by Thesis Games); THE BROTHERHOOD, KASSERINE PASS (by Conflict Games). (This is the last on my subscription. I won't renew.)
Called Phil Orbanes and arranged to go there earlier tomorrow so that I can do some other things in the afternoon.
He will be bringing his notes on the game they didn't take for the first series. He says there are 20 of them. I mentioned the terms of our contract where Hoi Polloi only has first refusal rights. I mentioned that I might want to place some of the games that are rejected elsewhere. But then I said I'd probably wait and if the royalties from Hoi Polloi are good I won't go elsewhere. Phil appreciated that.

Later looked thru the information I had on the p&p games that I piled up last year. Found a diagram that at first I couldn't place. Finally realized that it was a "score sheet" to be used with GRASS ROOTS. Couldn't completely reconstruct the rules for the game, and couldn't find any notes on it.

Had a germ of an idea for a GAME. Have 16 dice which are set up at random 4x4 pattern. Players in turn move one die one or two numbers higher (going from 6 to 1). Object is to get various patterns. To be worked out. One rule probably worth using. A die cannot be changed unless there are at least two others showing that number.

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