A New and Improved Game.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Game.
I Miss GERTRUDE WILLOUGHBY Fulmer Hall near Slough Bucks Spinster
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A game for two players on a board of 235 squares, with 3 yards & a home
played with 12 wooden castles, 6 large & 6 smaller also with small colored flags.
The object of game being for each player to get his 6 castles in each of the
3 consecutive yards & then home before his adversary. At each yard each castle
has a small flag inserted on top color of yard entered. Both players start from
centre of board & can move forwards, backwards sideways or diagonally. A large
castle may hop over a small but not over a large castle a small over a small but
not a large castle. Any number of hops may be taken at a time.
Dated this 11th day of December 1890.
GERTRUDE WILLOUGHBY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Game..
I GERTRUDE WILLOUGHBY of Fulmer Hall near Slough in the County of
Bucks Spinster do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The object of the invention is to provide a new game for two persons. For
this purpose I use a square board which may be made of any suitable material and
of any size. Each player is provided with a set of six pieces made of any
material which I call castles and which are distinguishable by colour or otherwise
from those used by the other player but one set must be coloured to correspond
with the colour used in the coloured squares of the start. Three of the pieces in
each set must be smaller than the remaining three.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this
Specification which is a diagram of the said board.
The said board as shewn by the said diagram is divided by lines that cross each
other at right angles into a number of small squares the drawing shewing three
hundred and eighty five such squares which I prefer. At the centre of the board
there are twelve squares distinguishable from the remainder of the board as to six
by being coloured (these are marked a) the two squares marked g are left
uncoloured and as to the remainder by a thick outer border line b. These squares
for the purpose of the game are called start, and are so marked in the said
diagram. At the right hand top corner of the said board a space which does not
contain squares is left as shewn in the said diagram. This space is a home but for
the purposes of the said game is called oof and is so marked on the said diagram.
At each of the three other corners fifteen of the said squares are separately
distinguishable from the rest of the board by a heavy border line c as shewn on the
said diagram. Six of each of the said fifteen squares must be coloured with the
same colour as the coloured squares in the start (these squares are marked d on
the said diagram) six are not coloured and the remaining three are coloured in any
other distinctive way (these squares are marked e on the said diagram). The
spaces occupied by the fifteen squares respectively are called yards those at the
left hand top corner being called yard 1 those at the left hand bottom corner
yard 2 and those at the right hand bottom corner yard 3 and they are so marked
D

page_text: on the said diagram. Thirty eight of the squares on each of the four sides of the
said board are separately distinguishable from the rest of the squares by a thick
border line as shewn on the said diagram.
The board being constructed as hereinbefore described each of the players has
three large pieces and three small pieces which must be placed on the start in the
squares of their respective colours for instance a large coloured piece then a large
white one then a small coloured one a small white and so on until the twelve are
placed on the start. The players then alternately begin to move the pieces
towards yard 1 moving backwards forwards sideways or diagonally over the
squares but except as hereinafter described only moving one square at a time and
until the players have got their pieces into yard 1 they must not move them over
the boarder line with the exception of that part of the boarder line between home
or oof and yard 1. A large piece may be moved or hopped over any of the small
pieces which may be in the next or following squares to it but a large piece may
not be moved or hopped over another large piece. A small piece may be moved
or hopped over any of the other small pieces which may be in the next or following
squares to it but a small piece may not be moved or hopped over a large piece.
Hops may be made over any number of small pieces so long as they are in a row
either forwards backwards or diagonally.
The object of each of the players is to place by moving or hopping as aforesaid
his six pieces into each of the said yards consecutively beginning with yard I and
then to get all his pieces into home or oof. A piece has not been into the yard
until it has been on the square of its own colour in the yard. The players after
reaching yard 1 must not move or hop any of their pieces beyond the border line f
if he does he must move back five squares within the said border line. On
reaching the last three rows of squares before home or oof the players can only
move their pieces in such squares forward. On reaching home or oof each piece
must be taken off the board and the player who first gets his six pieces into home
or oof is the winner.
Flags may be used to denote those pieces which have been in yard 1 by being
placed on the pieces which have been in such yard.
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 :-
1. The general device and division of my board as herein before described.
2. The manner of playing the game on the said board as herein substantially set
forth illustrated and described.
Dated thin 19th dor of Artaban 1901
LEAROYD, JAMES, & MELLOR,
12, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.