New Literary Game.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New Literary Game.
I, JOHN OLLIS PELTON, of 26, Friends Road, Croydon, Surrey, Grocer, do here-
by declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new literary game, and consists of two packs or sets
of cards, each containing the same number, each set being differently marked or
coloured in order to distinguish the one set from the other.
The first set has the commencement of a verse or passage selected from some
poet or author, and the second set has the remaining portion or portions of the
said selected verse or passage.
In playing the game, the players sit round a table, and the second set of cards
on which the concluding portion or portions of the selected verse or passage are
written or printed, are thrown face upward in the centre of the table.
Someone then takes the first set and reads out the commencement of the verse
or passage. The players then rapidly select from among the cards on the table
that card which contains the remainder of the verse or passage read out, and the
player who secures the most wins the game.
The manner of playing the game can be varied or modified if preferred, as
for instance, the second set of cards aforesaid may be shuffled and dealt round.as
in an ordinary game of cards, and the completion of the verses or sentences
as herein before described, read out by the one possessing the card.
As a guarantee of the correctness of the completed verse or passage, the corre-
sponding cards in each pack may be numbered or otherwise marked in such a
way that the mark on the card containing the commencement of the verse or
passage may not be seen by the person holding the card containing the remainder
of the verse or passage.
Dated this 30th day of June 1898
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent, 56, Ludgate Hill, E.C.
I, JOHN OLLIS PELTON, of 26, Friends Road, Croydon, Surrey, Grocer, do here-
by 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:-
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This invention relates to a new literary game and consists of two packs or sets
of cards, each containing the same number, each set being differently marked or
coloured in order to distinguish the one set from the other.

page_text: The first set has the commencement of a verse or passage selected from some
poet or author, and the second set has the remaining portion or portions of the
said selected verse or passage.
In playing the game, the players sit round a table and the second set of cards
on which the concluding portion or portions of the selected verse or passage are
written or printed, are thrown face upward in the centre of the table."
Someone then takes the first set and reads out the commencement of the verse
or passage. The players then rapidly select from among the cards on the table
that card which contains the remainder of the verse or passage read out, and the
player who secures the most wins the game.
The manner of playing the game can be varied or modified if preferred, as
for instance, the second set of cards aforesaid may be shuffled and dealt round as
in an ordinary game of cards, and the completion of the verses or sentences
as herein before described, read out by the one possessing the card.
As a guarantee of the correctness of the completed verse or passage, the corre-
sponding cards in each pack may be numbered or otherwise marked in such a
way that the mark on the card containing the commencement of the verse or
passage may not be seen by the person holding the card containing the remainder
of the verse or passage.
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. A new literary game consisting of two packs or sets of cards, each containing
the same number, each set being differently marked or coloured, the first set having
the commencement of a selected verse or passage, the second set having the remain-
ing portion or portions of said selected verse or passage substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore set forth and described.
Dated this 28th day of March 1800
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent, Vulcan House, 56, Ludgate Hill, E.C.