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Rc'd. a reorder for 4 FOCUS booklets. Wald here for supper. Played his new game with BB too. Each player has a setup with 24 chips which must be moved over (similar to the beads on an abacus). Players also have larger chips to use as money. All players bid for the right to move chips. The first winner of an auction moves as many chips as he wishes paying the ammount of his bid for each chip moved. This money goes into a kitty to be won by the first player to move his chips - except that the player putting it in can't win it and if he finishes first the player with least still to move gets it. After the first bid there are subsequent bids which work the same except that the money goes to the previous mover. The first to move across gets 1 chip (money) for each unmoved chip from each opponent and the kitty, unless he put the money in the kitty. Wald also played with the chips going in a sequence of colors, 1 color belonging to each player. When a player was auctioning the right to move he would have to accept a bid before there was a general pass. If he didn't, the player represented by the color of the last-moved chip of the auctioner would move one chip free & then auction. This didn't seem to work well. Played three games of FOCUS. I won.