A NEW AND NOVEL DESCRIPTION OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR GAME OF AMUSEMENT WHICH WE HAVE STYLED OR NAME THE 'ZEU DE JOIE
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Louis Augustin Keily and
Charles Henry Tipple at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 29th July 1871.
We, LOUIS AUGUSTIN KEILY, of No. 12, Gloucester Terrace, Campden
Hill, Kensington, and CHARLES HENRY TIPPLE, of Norwood Villa,
Hanwell, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW AND NOVEL DESCRIPTION OF INDOOR
AND OUTDOOR GAME OF AMUSEMENT WHICH WE HAVE STYLED OR NAME THE 'ZEU
DE JOIE,'" to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to introduce to the public a new and
pleasant description of a game of amusement.
And the said Invention consists in the employment of a folding board
or slab upon which are inscribed twelve or a lesser or greater number
of squares formed and separated by lines of a given colour. Each square
has written, marked, or printed thereon a number in figures, which
numbers range from zero upwards. The board may be placed in a
horizontal or slanting position. The party or parties playing stand at a

page_text: given distance from the board or slab, and each player is provided with
six or a lesser or greater number of round pieces of lead or other suitable
material or substance styled "palettes" and covered in coloured leather
or other suitable material or substance.
There are also in the Invention a quantity of differently coloured
numbered tickets or cards for use, as shown herewith, and also a scoring
tablet and marker.
The Invention or game is used and played in accordance with and as
the herein-after rules and particulars explain :-The board or slab is
placed on level ground with the higher end or top placed away from the
players. The players stand 12 or 15 feet more or less from the board.
The players place the numbered cards or tickets in a bag in accordance
with the number playing and draw for precedence. Sides may be
formed by placing the numbered cards or tickets altogether in a bag,
and after each party has drawn one the colours separate and side colour
against colour. Each player must wear and exhibit his coloured number.
Each player plays with the six or more or less palettes of his colour,
endeavouring each time he throws one to make it alight upon one of
the numbered squares of and on the board or slab, and the number
marked on such square is scored to the player or his side.
The game may consist of from one to any other higher number of
points as may be chosen or desired.
We do not limit ourselves to any particular shape, number of squares,
size, or material for the construction and completion of our board or
slab.
We do not limit ourselves to any particular colour or number of
colours, or particular description or kind of material to be used in the
manufacture and construction of the numbered cards or tickets and the
palettes, but we prefer scarlet and yellow for the colours, and cardboard,
leather, and lead for the materials.
We do not limit ourselves to any particular code of rules or regu-
lations for the performance or employment of our Invention, but we
consider the above arrangement a good one.