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30 WEDNESDAY - JANUARY 1974
30TH DAY - 335 DAYS TO COME

Bob Champer here testing MACARTHUR. My "Batman" scenario worked well. Then played "New Guinea" and "Korea" both of
which were a little one-sided, but the luck of the reserves
had a lot to do with that. Bob will call next Weds. to set a
date to try and finalize the 3 games.

Call from Bob Abbott. He saw MATH, WRITING, AND GAMES IN THE OPEN CLASSROOM (see 1/9) which he says is a lousy book with a good mention of me.
Bob contacted Felicia about handling EPAMINONDAS. She said there is no market for pure strategy games. She might be interested in WHAT'S THAT ON MY HEAD? but he doesn't know where his rights are.
Told him of the NYGA meeting on 2/8. Bob would like to attend.

Alan Newman and his wife Ali here with Felicia.
Felicia brought along a game by a new client that she calls
NAME DROPPERS. On a sheet of paper the alphabet is listed in rows one beneath the other. The foirst 26 letters are taken from any written material and added either before or after -
at the players' collective choice - the printed letters. Player try
to fill in known names using the initials. Can also fill in a
name using the initials in reverse, and score more for this. Score
less if two or more players have used same initials and even less
if the same name. We both agree it is too much like games in books.
Alan brought along his new version of FERRET (see 1/14). The board is now 9 x 9 with 4 spaces to be left blank at the
start - as shown in sketch.

[Small diagram of a 3 x 3 grid with the bottom right square starred.]

There are 77 white letter tiles including (I believe) 2 "wild". There are also 4 sets of differently colored tiles - 44 each - allowing from
2 to 4 to play.