A New or Improved Card Game.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
TRUVIDIONAL
A New or Improved Card Game.
WILLIAM PITT BROOK of Oakdene, 144 Croydon Road, Anerley, S.E. in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman and ALFRED COLLIER of 86 Victoria Park Road, N.E.
in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
The object of our invention is to provide for young people a new or improved
gane to be played with cards which shall be both instructive and entertaining.
Our invention consists of a number of cards, preferably about fifty two, divided
into ten groups consisting of Her Majesty, and the late Prince Consort, with their
children, grand-children and great grand-children (if thought desirable).
A group is formed of the heads and such members of a family as may be
selected.
The cards relating to each family bear likenesses, births, marriages, and the like.
To play the game, all the cards are dealt round, and the dealer starts the game
by asking any player for any card he requires to help complete any family he has
in his hand. The turn passes to the player who cannot supply the card asked for.
Each family (complete) forms a trick, and to guide a player as to the members
of a family (other than in hand) required to complete a trick the names are given
on each card.
Ten tricks have to be made, and the player securing the greater number, wins the
game.
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WILLIAM PITT BROOK.
ALFRED COLLIER.
WILLIAM PITT BROOK of Oakdene, 144, Croydon Road, Anerley, S.E. in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, and ALFRED COLLIER of 86, Victoria Park Road, N.E.
in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
Our invention consists of a new or improved game to be played with cards by
young people which will be both instructive and entertaining. According to our
invention we provide a number of cards preforably about fifty two and divide
them into ten groups consisting of Her Majesty the Queen and the late Prince
Consort with their children, grand-children and great-grand-children (if thought
desirable). A group is formed of the beads, and such members of a family as
may be selected.
The cards relating to each family bear their likenesses, births, marriages and
the like, as the following remarks clearly explain.
Her Majesty the Queen is on one card, her likeness in the centre, date of her

page_text: birth, when she succeeded, and whom she married, with date. On another card, is
the late Prince Consort with similar information, and date of his death. These
two august people being the founders of the family, are on separate cards, but
with other married members of the family, the husband and wife are on the same
card, and dealt with in the same way as to who they are, when born, when
married and to whom, and in case of death, the date is given, also at the top of
each card is given the name of the family with the number, shewing how many
the group consists of, and at the bottom who the other members of the family
are, required to complete the group. As an illustration we will take the late
Duke of Albany and his family which is composed of three cards, thus, Albany (3.)
underneath in the centre is the likeness of the late Duke and the Duchess alongside
each other, immediately over each likeness is the name and title, with dates of birth,
marriage, and death (as it has so happened), underneath the likenesses, is, "Family
consisting of," Princess Alice of Albany, Leopold, Duke of Albany, these are on
separate cards, and treated in a similar way, only substituting amongst the names
of the family required to be asked for, the previous one, omitting that of the
member whose likeness is on the card for instance on the card of Princess Alice
of Albany will be family consisting of, the late Duke of Albany and the Duchess
of Albany, Leopold, Duke of Albany, and on Leopold, Duke of Albany's card will
be family consisting of, the late Duke of Albany and the Duchess of Albany,
Princess Alice of Albany. Our intention is to provide fifty two cards being the
number used in an ordinary pack of cards and we shall divide them into the
following family groups and numbers namely
We may however find it desirable later on to increase or lessen these numbers, or
alter or vary the information to be given on the cards about the different families.
To play the game, all the cards are dealt round, and the dealer starts the game by
asking any one of the players for any card he may require to help him complete
any particular family he has in his hand, and should that player be unable to
supply the card asked for, then the turn passes to him, and he commences to ask
any player for such card as he may require, thus the game proceeds, and to guide
a player as to the members of a family (other than in hand) required to form a
trick the names are given on each card. Each family (complete) forms a trick
and ten tricks have to be made, the player securing the greater number, wins the
game.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is
The now an improved coma substantially as herein before described