and Apparatus therefor. GAME OF DRAUGHTS THREE PERSONS, & APPARATUS THERE
Year: 1886

page_text: and Apparatus therefor.
I JOHN HYDE of Clandon House Birkbeck Road, Acton, Middlesex (W) Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A NEW GAME OF DRAUGHTS TO
BE PLAYED BY THREE PERSONS, & APPARATUS THEREFOR to be as follows:-
The portion of the board on which the game is played is triangular in shape & is
divided into 81 equilateral triangles (45 colored alike & 36 white)-Thirty men or
pieces (three different colors of 10 each) are used, and are circular in shape (similar
to the pieces used in the ordinary game of draughts).
The game may also be played with ordinary "counters."-Each player has ten
men or pieces placed on 10 colored pyramids or triangles in the respective corners
of the board and moves them one colored pyramid or triangle at a time from his
own corner toward either of bis adversaries' corners. When either player succeeds
in advancing any of his men to the last line of pyramids or triangles forming the
base of the board farthest from his own corner, those men become "Kings" and
can afterward be moved either backward or forward."
The mode of moving and taking is similar to that adopted in the ordinary game
of draughts.
After one player has lost all his pieces the player succeeding in taking the last
piece of his remaining adversary wins the game.
The board is made in one piece and also in the shape of a star, with folds, and
when folded is hexagon in shape.
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page_text: A New Game of Draughts to be Played by Three Persons,
and Apparatus therefor.
I, JOHN HYDE, of Clandon House, Birkbeck Road, Acton, Middlesex, Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A NEW GAME OF DRAUGHTS, TO
BE PLAYED BY THREE PERSONS, AND APParatus thereFOR, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The draught board is made in any shape and of any material or article suitable
to the design of the portion of the board on which the game is played, which
portion is triangular in shape divided into eighty-one equilateral triangles-forty-
five colored alike and thirtysix white (see diagram 1).
In playing the game thirty men, or pieces, are used-three different colors of ten
each they are circular in form, similar to the pieces used in the ordinary game
of draughts, and are made of any suitable material; their size being regulated by the
dimensions of the triangles of the board-ordinary "counters" may also be used.-
Diagram 2 shows a board with the pieces in position ready for play.
Diagram 3 represents a board made in the shape of a star, which, when folded,
where dotted lines are shown, is hexagon in shape, as in diagram 4.
The game is played in the following manner :-
Each player has ten men, or pieces, placed on the first ten colored pyramid or
triangular spaces in the respective corners of the board. In the first game lots are
drawn for first move, and in subsequent games the first move is taken by each
player in rotation, the second player in the first game moving first in the second
game, and so on,
Each player in turn advances a man, one pyramid or triangle at a time, (the
white spaces not being used) in the direction of either of his adversaries' corners
the arrows at the sides of the board showing the directions in which each player
may move but in no case before a man is crowned is he allowed to be moved in a
horizontal direction, taking as a guide the base (of the triangular board) farthest
from the corner from which he is played.
So soon as either player succeeds in advancing any of his men any pyramid
in the last line, or base of the triangle, farthest from his own corner, excepting
those pyramids forming the angles of the board the men so advanced become
kings.
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After a man has been crowned, he must not at any time be moved in either
direction along the outer lines of pyramids; but, when first moved, must be played
out from the line in which he was crowned; when he may move and may take in
any and every other direction. He may, however, at any time thereafter be
moved back to any of the outer lines, but must be brought out again when next
played.
The mode of taking both men and kings, is similar to that adopted in the
ordinary game of draughts; and, if the positions allow, more than one man or king
may be taken from either or both adversaries at the same time.

page_text: Should the player, whose turn it is to move, be able to take from one of his
adversaries, such adversary may compel him to do so; but should the player be in
a position to take from either one or the other, he has the option of taking from
whom he chooses. If one player does not compel another to take, when opportunity
offers, the one failing to take may be "huffed as in ordinary draughts.
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After one player has lost all his pieces, the player succeeding in taking the last
piece of his remaining adversary, wins the game. It may however happen that
the two remaining players have each only a king, when, unless one player is in a
position to force the other to a side of the board, where he cannot move without
being taken, the game is considered drawn.
Should each of the three players be left with one king, without any apparent
superiority of position, it may also be agreed that the game be considered as
drawn.
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:-
1. The general design of the portion of the board on which the game is played.
2. The special design and shape of the folding board.
3. The principles, and mode of playing, the game.