A New or Improved Game
Year: 1894

page_text: A New or Improved Game,
I HORACE FULLER Vernon Lodge St. Aubin's Jersey Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved parlour game in which a race is imitated
known as the "Egg and Spoon Race."
The game can be played upon an ordinary table, and a cup or bowl is employed
placed in the centre as the goal.
The game is played with a number, four for convenience, of figures, preferably
representing women, each with a spoon in which an egg or small ball can be
placed. Two or more counters are provided for each figure, and in playing the
game, these counters are placed in a line in front of the figures, the latter starting
from the sides of the table or other convenient points, each player having one
figure. Each player attempts to move his figure to the cup first, keeping the counters
in line in front of him.
If the egg falls out of the spoon it must be picked up and replaced before
proceeding further. When the figures reach the centre, the spoon must be worked
over the edge of the bowl and the egg overturned into it. The player who does
this first wins the game.
The game may be varied in various ways. For example, a counter may be placed
in the path of the player which has to be picked up on the way.
Dated this 8th day of June 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Game.
1 HORACE FULLER of Number One St. Mark's Road, St. Helier, Jersey
Channel Isles late of Vernon Lodge St. Aubin's Jersey 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 invention has for its object a new or improved game to be played on an ordinary
table upon which has been placed in the centre of it a small receptacle and to be
played with or by means of the manipulation of circular counters such as might be
used for the game of draughts such counters to the number of three or four at the most
forming a set upon one of which counters that is to say the one which by preference
I call the hindermost I construct a miniature figure composed of card tin or other
like suitable material preferably in the form of that of an old woman who holds in
her hand a spoon or other like device, the said spoon or like device being for the
purpose of holding an egg-shaped or spherical article. There being two or more
sets of counters to each game but only one such like figure in each set.
In the accompanying drawings ▲ Fig. 1 represents that counter which by
preference I call the hindermost upon which I have constructed an old woman

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holding in her hand a spoon or other device in which is held or balanced an egg
or spherical article 1 which is caused to drop into the receptacle B by tapping and
slightly tilting the old woman until this end is accomplished.
In playing my game I place upon a table C Fig. II and at an equidistance from
the receptacle B placed in the centre of it two or more sets of counters as A, 2, 3, D, 4, 5,
the one inarked A being the one upon which the figure of the old woman is constructed
and the one marked D being similar thereto.
The object of my game is to push forward the three counters with the finger by
only touching the periphery of the hindermost counter and so_racing them across
the table in as straight a line as possible to the receptacle B in the centre of it.
When this is reached by the foremost counter the hindermost one A or D as the
case may be is manipulated alone until the spoon is well over the receptacle as
shown by the dotted line x Fig. II and also in the drawing Fig. I when as before
described the egg is made to drop into the receptacle by tapping or slightly tilting
the old woman behind and with her the counter. The first person accomplishing
this wins the game.
2
In manipulating the counters it will be found that the great difficulty lies in the
tendency of the said counters when being moved to deviate from a straight line with
each other as shewn at E, A, 2, 3, Fig. II. Like letters and numerals in the
accompanying drawings apply to the same things.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I
claim is.
In a game the use of counters where their shape on being propelled by a motion
imparted to them through the hindermost one gives them a natural tendency to
deviate from a straight line in combination with a figure as and for the purposes
.described.
Dated this Eighth day of March 1895.