Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb, 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar, 1896
I BERTRAM PATRICK HOWELL, of 65 Goldstone Villas, Hove, Brighton,
Sussex, Auctioneer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
My invention relates to new or improved game designed to be played upon a
board with counters or otherwise by two or more persons
It consists of a suitably made board divided up into any required number of
squares, each square of, sav the last three rows, having thereon the name of a city
or country and being coloured to match the counters with which the game is
played
I propose to provide thirty counters or blocks, more or less, upon each of which
appears the name of a nationality to correspond with the squares upon the board
bearing the names of cities or countries and being suitably coloured so that each
named square shall have its own nationality in the shape of the corresponding
counter or block
The game is played by the players taking opposite sides of the board having
their counters or blocks, an equal number in each case, ranged upon the three first
and named rows of squares indiscriminately, the same being opposite to their
respective countries or cities, as the case, may be, which are likewise occupied by
the opponents counters placed in the same manner
The game consists in each counter being placed in its corresponding square that
is the counter representing the nationality occupying the square representing the
country to which it rightly belongs
This may be done by means of a series of moves in any direction except back-
wards, being the subject of certain rules for the guidance of the players
I may of course have any suitable size board, o1 counters of any desired shape
and colours, the board being suitably worked out to accommodate more than two
players if necessary, noi do I confine myself to nationalities and countries alone the
subject of the game being according to requirements such as letters and numbers
and the like
Dated the 3rd day of May 1805
A New or Improved Game
I BERTRAM PATRICK HOWEIL of 65 Goldstone Villas, Hove, Brighton
in the County of Sussex, Valuer 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
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My invention relates to a new or improved game designed to be played upon a
board with counters or otherwise by two or more persons, the said board being

page_text: divided up into any required number of squares, cach square of, say the three end
rows, or certain number of squares at eich corner having thereon the name of a
country or city and being coloured to match their respective counters with which
the game is played
For example in a board of 50 squares I ari unge five of them across the board ind
ten lengthways thereof, the three rows at each end (making 15 sques each) to be
printed in two different colours, or for each end, to match the counters or men
and marked with the names of different cities, such as "London" "Berlin'
"Melbourne" and such like and so that each counter or man has on the board a
city of his own nation
For example squares Nos 1 to 15 at one end may be printed in black and
squares Nos 16 to 30 at the other end in red the corresponding counters, such as
Englishman for London and German for Berlin being similarly printed or
coloured
The squares and counters are each numbered, and in opening the game the player
with the black printed courters plices them upon the red printed squares according
to their numbers, and the player with the ied printed counters upon the black
printed squares the board being placed with the black squares to the player with
the red counters and ue versa
After this placing the numbers on counters and squares seive no other purpose in
the game and can be ignored
Thus it will be seen that cach counter or man is in a foreign city and the
object of the game is for each player in turn to move his men with the idea
of playing each into the respective national cities on the opposite side of
the board
The moves are from one square to any adjoining square except in a backwud
direction, but not beyond, more than a single move being allowed only when a
player jumps his man over any one of his own or opponents pieces (except
backwards) on the other side of which is a vacant square this lattei move may be
repeated as in "draughts' as often as an opening occurs, such two, three, or more
jumps being counted as one move
The game is finished as soon as one of the players, who shall be the winner, shall
have succeeded in placing each of his fifteen men in his respective city, when he
shall declare that he is "home"
In the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrating my invention Figure 1 shows
a plan of board with the counters or men placed in the positions they are to
occupy at the beginning of a game, and I igure 2 is a plan of the board showing the
positions of the men at the end of the game one side being all "home whilst the
other has two men out
At the end a of the board are maiked the black printed or coloured squares
consisting of the three end rows numbered 1 to 15 and at the other end a¹ are
marked the red printed or coloured squares consisting of the three end rows
numbered 16 to 30
Each of these squares and counters or men are numbered as shown, and it is to
be understood that each of the squares is also marked or printed with the name of
a country or city such as "London "Berlin" and the like though not shown in
the drawings, figures being used inste id Lach of the counters or men is likewise
marked or painted with the name of a nationality such as Englishman, German
In commencing the game the counters or men are arranged as before described
and shown in Figure 1 the black counters such as b being placed upon the red
squares a¹ and the red counters such as b' on the black squares a The player with
the red counters plays from end a of the board and the player with the black
counters from the end a¹
The object of each player is to get his counters or men into the squares at the
opposite end so that each counter or man shall correspond in nationality with the
country or city marked on such squares and the player accomplishing this first wins
the game

page_text: In Figure 2 the black squares a are shown all covered by their respective black
counters or men b whilst the red counters or men & have still two out of position on
the red squares a', black therefore winning
the game
It is evident that any suitably sized board may be used and the squares be
differently arranged as for instance coiner to coiner, the shape and colour also of
the counters and squares may vary and be marked with other names, numbers,
letters or designs, and the board may be arranged to accommodate more than two
players
The whole may be made of any desired material
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 18
1 In a new oi impioved game the use of a board divided into squares, a certain
number of which at one end or corner are marked with the names of different
countries cities, names or other designs and numbers all in one colour and a
corresponding number of squares at the other end or corner with the names of other
countries cities, names or other designs and numbers all in one or more colours but
different to that at the first named end or corner substantially as herein-before
described and for the purposes specified
2 In a new or improved game the combination with a board marked and
arranged as specified in the foregoing claim, of counters of men similar in number
to the marked squares, and also marked with the names of nationalities
corresponding to the names of the squares or with other suitable names letters
or designs and with numbers corresponding with those of the squares, a certain
number of the said counters or men being pin ed on coloured with one colour,
whilst the remainder are painted with another colour or colours such colouis being
similar to those of the squares substantially as described and for the purposes
specified
3 The new or improved game substantially as herein described and shown in the
accompanying drawings
Dated this 3rd day of February 1896
J B FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden, London