An Improved Indoor Game and Appliance for same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1898
An Improved Indoor Game and Appliance for same.
I, JAMES HENRY COGHLAN BOIG, of 10, Rossett Avenue, in the City of Liverpool,
Master Mariner, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as
follows:-
The appliance for use in playing my improved game consists of a board or
other suitable surface provided with a pivot on which a spinner, or pointer formed
with a button whereby it is spun, is caused to rotate over a circle which is divided
segmentally, each segment or groups of segments being distinguished by different
colours. At four opposite points outside the circle I arrange stake
indicators, consisting of four groups of four circles divided and num-
bered 0 to 6, each of said circles having a moveable pointer. At each side
of the board, which is by preference square, I arrange four courses or rows of
perforations, after the manner of a cribbage board, each row or course having, say,
one hundred perforations, subdivided into sections of ten. The four courses are
distinguished by colours, say red, blue, yellow, and green; and in this case the
segments over which the spinner revolves, would be coloured red, blue, yellow
and green in groups, the groups being divided by a white or blank segment. The
rows of perforations have each a man or peg.
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Two, three or four players may play with the board above described, each
player appropriating the four men and the four courses on the side of the board
where he is sitting. Each player then stakes upon the coloured segments by
means of his stake indicators, which are,coloured to correspond with such segments.
There is a limit to the total stakes on all four indicators, say twelve, so that a
player may stake three on each of the four colours or stake more upon one than
another, so long as the total stake is twelve. The players take it in turns to
revolve the spinner, and accordingly as the spinner stops over one or other of the
coloured segments the men are advanced on correspondingly coloured courses the
number of points staked by the players. The game is won by the player whose
four men are first to reach their respective goals of one hundred holes. To stake
upon the white or blank segments, the player places each of his indicators at zero,
and should the spinner stop upon a white segment, the player so staking is
entitled to advance his men twelve points, which points may be divided amongst
his four men.
In a modification the spinner is provided with a tooth wheel, into which a detent
operated by the player who spins, enters, so that the spinner is prevented from
stopping on a line dividing two segments, the number of teeth in the wheel cor-
responding with the number of segments.
The board may be of wood, cardboard, or its equivalent, on which the segments
are delineated and coloured; or the board may form the lid of a box, and may
have different coloured woods inlaid to represent the segments and courses.

page_text: It must be understood that statements of numbers, colours, etcetera, hereinabove,
are given as examples only.
Dated this 16th day of Anril 1897
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10, St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.
I, JAMES HENRY COGHLAN BOIG, of 10, Rossett Avenue, in the City of Liverpool,
Master Mariner, 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 appliance for use in playing my improved game consists of a board, or other
suitable surface, provided with a pivot a on which a spinner b (having reference
to the accompanying drawing) formed with a button c whereby it is spun, is caused
to rotate over a circular area which is divided segmentally, each segment or groups
of segments being distinguished by different colours. At four opposite points
outside the said circle I arrange stake indicators, consisting of four groups of four
circles, divided and numbered, 1 to 6. At each side of the board, which is .by
preference square, I arrange four courses or rows, each course being sub-divided
into thirty-two steps or stations. The four courses are distinguished by colours,
say red, blue, yellow, and green, the segments over which the spinner revolves
being similarly coloured red, blue, yellow, and green, alternately, and numbered.
Two, three, or four players may use the board, with or without an extra player
who represents the banker, and each player has six "men," which may be formed
of any suitable material, of a uniform shape, and appropriates a course and stake
indicator.
The following games may be played upon the board hereinabove described.
GAME 1.
Five players, including the banker, are supplied with 50 or 100 counters (shells,
nuts or the like) and (except the banker) with one "man." Each player then
speculates on any colour he chooses by placing his man on the numbered segment
of that coloured circle of his stake indicator which represents the number of counters
staked. The spinner is then spun and allowed to stop. Assuming that it has
stopped upon the red segment marked 4, the banker must pay those players who
have staked upon red, four-times the amount of their stake. The stakes of those
who have not staked on red are forfeited to the banker. When the spinner stops
on green, 2., the banker pays those who have staked on green, twice their stakes,
and receives forfeit from those who have not, and so on. The game is to "break
the banker, the largest winner then taking his place.
GAME 2.
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Two, three, or four players. No banker. No counters. Each player appro-
priates one set of four courses and one set of stake indicators, and has six
Four men are placed on the four shaded stations at the commencement of the
player's courses, the remaining two men being to speculate with. Each player
places his two men on the chosen colour of his stake indicator, and the spinner is
turned as in Game 1. If the spinner stops on "red, 4," those players who have
staked on red, advance the man on the red section of their course four places. In
this game the figures on the stake indicators are ignored. The players object is

page_text: to advance his four men to the end of his course, and he who first accomplishes this,
wins the game. There are two obstacle stations in each set of courses, indicated by
shade lines in the drawing. A man which alights at the first obstacle must start
his course afresh, and a man alighting at the second obstacle must return to the
first obstacle and start again. The men upon the courses differently coloured from
the segment indicated by the spinner, remain stationary.
Instead of the stake indicators being provided with numerals, they may be
blank coloured spaces, the amount of the stake being indicated by dice thrown
thereon. Ore the stake may be indicated by a pointer loosely swivelled in the
centre of each circle, the latter being provided with numerals, say 0 to 6.
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The four sets of courses may be formed of rows of perforations, after the manner
men in the
of a cribbage board, which represent steps or stations, and receive
shape of pegs.
In a modification, the spinner is provided with a tooth wheel, into which a
detent, operated by the player who spins, enters, so that the spinner is prevented
from stopping on a line dividing two segments, the number of teeth in the wheel
corresponding with the number of segments.
The board may be of wood, cardboard, or its equivalent, on which the segments
are delineated and coloured; or the board may form the lid of a box, and may
have different coloured woods inlaid to represent the segments and courses.
It must be understood that statements of numbers, colours, etcetera, herein above,
are given as examples only.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
As a means of recreation, the game and board hereinabove described, the
characteristic features of which being a spinner travelling over and stopping upon
one of a number of differently coloured segments, a series of stake discs coloured
to correspond with such segments, and a series of courses or rows of stations also
coloured to correspond with such segments and traversed by the players' men, the
advancement of such men being consequent upon the indication by the spinner of
a segment the colour of which has been staked upon.
Dated this 10th dox of Tonuary 1898
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10. St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.