An Improvement in Games.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1391-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Games.
I, EDMUND ALDERSON SANDFORD FAWCETT, Civil Engineer, of 13 Victoria
Street, Westminster, Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows: :―
The object of this invention is to construct a game wherein it is the object of one
side or player to get a piece or man to some definite point or points, & of the
other side or player to prevent the piece from getting to the said point or points
by the intervention of other pieces or men, & to capture the opponents piece by
surrounding it so that it cannot be moved.
For the construction of this game I draw or otherwise mark out a number of
roads or paths on cardboard or other suitable material. I draw the roads or paths
in such a manner as to form junctions with each other at various points. At the
centre of each junction I place a mark. All the roads are made to terminate at
one point at one end of the board & at seven points at the other end. The game
played with six pieces or men as follows:-
One player places his piece; which is distinguished from his opponents five
pieces either in shape or otherwise; on the single point or junction before
mentioned, at his end of the board. His opponent places his five pieces on any of
the seven points or junctions, before mentioned, at the other end of the board.
For simplicity I will call the player of the single piece "A," & the player of the
five pieces "B." It is the object of "A" to get his piece on to one of the points
or junctions at "B's" end of the board; & it is "B's" object to prevent
"A"
doing so & to capture his ("A's") piece by surrounding it in such a manner that
it cannot be moved. When either "A
or. "B" accomplish their respective
objects they win the game. The player in moving must follow one of the paths or
roads. The length of each move is from one junction to another in any direction
& the piece moved must be placed on the mark in the centre of the junction it is
moved to. A piece can only be moved one junction at a time. I have described
my game & the manner of playing it with two players & six pieces or men, but it
can be constructed so as to be played by more than two players & with more or
less than six pieces.
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Dated this 28th day of November 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Games.
be
I, EDMUND ALDERSON SANDFORD FAWCETT, of 13 Victoria Street,
Westminster in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of this invention is to construct a game, wherein it is the aim of one
side or player to get a piece or man, to some definite point or points, and that of
the other side or player, to prevent the piece or man from reaching the said point or
points by the intervention of other pieces or men, and to capture his opponents
piece, by surrounding it, with his pieces, so that it cannot move.
For the construction of this game, I draw or otherwise mark out, a number of
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page_text: roads or paths on cardboard or other suitable material, in such a manner as to form
junctions with each other at various points.
At the centre of each junction I place a mark, marked c. in the accompanying
drawing. I make all the roads terminate at one point a, at one end of the board;
and in seven points b. at the other end.
The game is played with six pieces or men as follows
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One player places his piece, which is distinguished from his opponents five pieces
either in shape or otherwise on the single point a, at his end of the board.
His opponent places his five pieces on any of the seven points b, at the other end
of the board.
For simplicity I will call the player of the single piece A. and the player of the
five pieces B.
It is the object of A to get his piece onto any one of the seven points b, and
it is B's object to prevent him from doing so, and to capture his piece; which is
accomplished by surrounding it with all or any number of his pieces or men, in
such a manner that it cannot be moved.
When either A or B accomplish their respective objects they win the game.
A piece in being moved must be moved along a road, the length of each move
is from one junction to the next in the direction of movement, and the piece must
be placed on the mark e, at the junction to which it is moved.
I call my game
"Dick Turpin's Ride from London to York."
I have described my game and the manner of playing it with six pieces. But
the number of pieces employed may be increased or decreased to suit the fancy
of the players, without in any way altering the nature of the game.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A playing board composed of roads and intervening spaces, marked out in
such a manner that the roads meet and intersect each other, at various points
so as to form junctions, which limit the movement of the pieces with which the game
is played, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 26th day of August 1891.
E. A. SANDFORD FAWCETT.