Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 6th Mar.,
1897
I, HENRY ADAMS, of 48 Devonshire Road, Greenwich London, S.E., Gentleman,
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 :-
My new game, which is of a nature to exercise both the hands, eyes, & intellects
of the players, I call " Sixty, or the flying numbers," the number sixty being
chosen in honor of the sixty years glorious reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria,
& for the purpose of playing it I use two carriers on cords, two cards or boards,
& 32 counters.
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The carriers consist of small weighted balls, and on the top of these carriers
I screw or fasten small metal eyes, through which the cord is passed, and beneath
the eyes, on the side of the carriers, I have a small hook. The two boards or
cards are alike, and may be made of card, wood, or any other suitable material.
On these cards, from a centre I have described three circles, the circumferences
of these circles being about an inch apart; and on each of the two outer circles, at
equal distances apart; there are eight small circles, 16 circles in all, each two of
these small circles, that is the one on the outermost large circle and the one on the
centre large circle, being in a direct line with each other from the centre. These
circles are illustrated in Fig. 1. of the drawings annexed hereto, A. B. C. being the
larger circles, and D. and E. the smaller circles.
The counters, which may be made of bone or any other suitable material, are of
two distinct colors, say pink and green, half of each color, the two carriers being
colored distinctly to correspond therewith.
Near the edge of the counters there is a small hole, made just large enough to
enable them to be placed on the hook fixed on the carriers.
On each of the carriers there is a number, the two colors being numbered
identically.
The leading idea of the game centres round the number sixty, or whatever
number may be otherwise previously agreed upon, and is played in the following
manner.
For each set of pieces as above described, four players are required, these
playing in pairs, as partners.
Cords are passed through the eyes on the carriers, and one end of these cords is
held by each of the players, one cord and one carrier being used by each pair of
players. One of the boards or cards, is placed at each end, between the opposing
players, as illustrated in Fig. 2., F. G. being partners, and H. I. being partners,
the boards being shown J. J. on tables K. K. The counters are placed on the
boards, one side having one color, and the other side the other color, one of the
players, called the sender, at each board having a carrier.
The colors being say pink and green, the two pink players stand facing each
other on one side of the tables, and the two green players on the other side.
Having agreed who shall be senders and who receivers, at a given signal pink at
one table and green at the other, sweep the counters off the boards, and the
senders must hook them on to the carriers, and by lifting or elevating the cords at
their ends, slide the carriers, with their counters attached, over their respective
cords, to the receivers, one counter only at a time, the receivers having to unhook

page_text: the counters, and place them on the boards by their sides, figures upwards,
returning the carriers to their partners, the counters being placed on the boards in
such a way that the numbers when added together, counting in a line from the
centre to the circumference, in each two small circles, shall make sixty, or whatever
number may have been previously agreed upon, as illustrated in the diagram Fig. 3.
The players getting the whole of their counters through first, and properly arranged
on their board, winning the game.
The game will perhaps be better understood by reference to Fig. 2.
As already stated F. G. are partners say pink, and H. I. are partners say green.
I will suppose G. to be the sender and F. the receiver of pink, and I. the sender
and H. the receiver of green. The pink player F. has his own colored counters
on the board by which he stands, and the green player H. the green counters on
the board by which he stands.
On the signal to start, G. sweeps his opponents counters off the board, and one
by one hooks them on the carrier, lifts the cord on his side, and sends them
through to his partner F. opposite, to place on the board J. by which he is
standing.
In like manner, the green player I., sweeps his opponents counters off the board,
and sends them through to his partner H. On receiving the counters, F. and H.
remove them from the carriers, and place them, numbers upwards, on the boards as
already described, returning the carriers to G. and I. for fresh counters.
It will be understood that the counters, if preferred, can be used without reference
to the numbers appearing upon them, the game being then simply a race between
the colors.
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 new game substantially as described and shown in drawings.
2. In a game, the use of carriers or weighted balls having an eye or eyes and a
book or hooks fixed upon them, such carriers or weighted balls running over cords,
as and for the purpose described.
3. In a game, the use of cards or boards upon which are described three large
circles with eight smaller circles on each of the two outer large circles, substantially
as specified and shown in drawings.
4. The combination of boards or cards, carriers or weighted balls, and numbered
counters for a game all substantially as described.
Dandhi 10th JC T
2005