A Drawing Room or Parlour Game
Year: 1898

page_text: A Drawing Room or Parlour Game,
ELLEN HILL, Fennells Farm, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, Farmer's Wife, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Box with several separations. Game played with balls & mallet two small
boards attached to box with holes to take points up to seventeen by striking the
balls into the differnt separations, the winner of that number to place up a small
flag. Game to be played by two or more persons.
A Drawing Room or Parlour Game
I, ELLEN HILL, of Fennells Farm, near Stroud, in the County of Gloucester-
shire, Farmer's Wife, 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:-
This invention consists in a board or device for use in playing a drawing room
or parlour game. This board A, the preferable form of which is illustrated in
perspective in the annexed drawing, is preferably rectangular with a raised
border B around the edge and it may be made in one piece or to fold as illustrated
at C. At one end of the board A in the corners are two blocks D each with
seventeen holes to receive a peg or pegs, and between these two blocks there is a
series of upright partitions E dividing the end of the board into compartments
open at the ends nearer the body of the board. In the end of the board, that is to
say in the border near the compartments aforesaid are holes F for reception of
flags. On the floor of the board are also two series of disks G G on which a ball
or balls may be placed preparatory to striking it or them with a mallet in order to
drive it or them into the compartments. The floor of the board at the compart-
ments is sunk slightly below the level of the remainder of the board. There are
as many compartments as there are disks in each row of disks, preferably seven,
and each compartment with the disk of each row in line therewith are colored
with the same color, the compartments and disks being thus differently colored
throughout each series. The dimensions of the board may be as follows; thirty
six inches long, fourteen inches wide, and the distances of the disks of the nearer
and further series from the end of the board where the compartments are may be
respectively twenty-one and thirty inches. The game may be played by two or

page_text: more persone as follows:-To each player is allotted seven balls, that is to say a
number equal to the number of the compartments, these balls being colored differ-
ently, and similarly to the disks on which they are to be placed. They may be
placed on either of the two series of disks. By means of a mallet they are struck
one after the other so that they may enter their respective compartments and for
each ball which so enters correctly one point is scored by means of the one or
other peg. The black ball may count in the first round two and in the second
round three," so that an efficient player may by correctly striking each ball
score 17 in two rounds whereupon he may place a flag in one of the holes F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The box or board A having compartments scoring blocks and disks or equivalent
indicating spots arranged substantially as herein described and illustrated, and for
the purpose of a game wherein the ball or balls are struck with the object of
entering said compartments.
Dated this on day of February 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Col,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Agents to Applicant.