A New Game and Apparatus for Playing the same.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th June, 1894-Accepted, 28th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game and Apparatus for Playing the same.
We, CHARLES STUART JONES, of Spithead, Boot Dealer, and HENRY
CHARLES COLLIER, of The Quay, Hotel Proprietor, both in Dartmouth, in the
County of Devon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a game in which a board of the kind shewn in the
accompanying drawing is used. This board has at the corners four stations in
which the men (generally four) allotted to the respective players are placed and
around the board is a course divided into sections along which the men are moved
from the stations a distance corresponding to the turn up numbers of a die or dice.
The game is to move the men one at a time out of the stations according to the
numbers on the dice, the men all moving in the same direction and for the men
behind to catch up the men in front, each man so caught up being removed from
the course and placed upon the central station. The player who has the last man
or men left on the course is the winner. Between the several stations we arrange
what may be termed shelters upon which stand other men (one for each player)
which may be brought out at certain times and which may move in either direction
up to the marked corners.
In practice we prefer to colour the stations differently and to correspondingly
colour the men to enable them to be readily distinguished.
It will be obvious that the dimensions of the board and the number of divisions
in the course may be varied as desired.
a, a, a, a are the stations at the corners of the board, 6 the course, c the central
station and d, d, d, d the shelters.
Dated the 25th dor of Anil 1904
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Game and Apparatus for Playing the same.
We, CHARLES STUART JONES, of Spithead, Boot Dealer, and HENRY
CHARLES COLLIER, of The Quay, Hotel Proprietor, both in Dartmouth, in the
County of Devon, 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 relates to a game in which a board of the kind shewn in the
drawing filed with my Provisional Specification is used. This board has at the
corners four stations a, a, a, a in which the men (generally four) allotted to
the respective players are placed, each station having eight squares four of which
are white and four coloured. Around the board is a course b divided into sections
along which the men are moved from the stations a distance corresponding to the
turn up number or numbers of a die or dice. The game is to move the men one at
a time out of the stations according to the numbers on the dice, the men all moving
in the same direction and for the men behind to catch up the men in front, each
man so caught up being removed from the course and placed upon the central
station c. The player who has the last man or men left on the course is the winner.
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page_text: Between the several stations we arrange what we term shelters d, d, d, d upon which
stand other men (one for each player) which may be brought out at certain times
and which may move in either direction up to the marked corners.
In practice we prefer to colour the stations differently and to correspondingly
colour the men to enable those of the different players to be readily
distinguished.
It will be obvious that the dimensions of the board and the number of divisions
in the course may be varied as desired.
In playing the game each player (of whom there may be two, three or four, the
latter number being preferable) places his four men on the four coloured squares
of his station and a fifth man in the correspondingly coloured shelter.
The men being thus arranged the players successively throw the dice, each)
player moving out one man a distance represented by a number of squares corre-
sponding with the turn up number of the dice, all the men being moved along the
same direction. When the number thrown by one player brings his man onto a
square occupied by the man of another player, the last mentioned man is considered
as dead and removed to one of the spaces in the central station. The player thus
losing a man, at his next throw brings out another man the player proceeding as
before until only one man remains in the course the owner of which is the
winner.
A player-having lost all his men is at liberty to bring out his reserve man from
the shelter which reserve man is played under the same conditions as before
described except that it can be moved in either direction as may seem most
advantageous to the player.
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It will be obvious that the conditions of playing may be varied as desired for
instance by excluding some numbers turned up upon the dice and giving other
numbers an advantage such as an extra throw.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of the improved board for playing a game substantially
as hereinbefore described and fustrated.
Dotad be 16th don of Lun 1001
PIC COSCII
Austrated.
be 16th don of I1001
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.