Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1887
Specification Accepted, 14th Oct., 1887
I, HENRY REASON 4 Clermont Road Preston Park Sussex, Publisher of Games
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 consists of a new and original game, to be played on a map or
diagram representing an area with various courses of railways and the stations through
which they pass distinctively marked thereon. The appliances consist of the aforesaid
map or diagram, on which are marked lines of railways, their termini, and stations
through which they pass; tickets, each of which correspond to one of the aforesaid
stations; moveable models representing trains or parts of trains belonging to the
respective lines; and counters. The object of the players in this game is to obtain
the greatest number of tickets belonging to other player's lines; the winner being
that player who at the end of the game has taken most tickets. The method of
playing the game is as follows-
Each player has allotted to him one or more of the lines of railways on the map or
diagram, with the tickets and model or models appertaining thereto, together with an
equal number of counters. Each player moves his model or models in turn from
one station to another, wherever he chooses, but the stations he moves to and from
must be connected by railway line or lines shown on the map or diagram.
The player who first, in moving his model, reaches a station to which a ticket
belongs, takes the ticket which then becomes his till the end of the game, but he
cannot take the tickets belonging to his own line or lines. The players continue
moving their models until all the tickets are taken.
The playors pay tolls by means of their counters, to the owners of the lines on
which they move their models, according to the distance moved and the number of
stations passed through, each player thus deriving revenue during the game. By this
means the players' moves are partly governed by their individual revenues.
A player can move his model through as many stations at a move as he chooses to
pay tolls for, but he can only take one ticket at a move.
A player can move free of toll over his own line.
No player can move his model past another's already on the line over which he
wishes to travel, except by paying an extra toll to the owner of the line,

page_text: The players thus try each to first reach one another's stations to which tickets
belong, so as to take as many tickets in as few moves as possible.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
1-The invention of a new and original game to be played on a map or diagram
representing an area with various courses of railways distinctively marked thereon.
Each player in the game takes charge of one or more of these railways, the tickets,
and model or models of trains or parts of trains appertaining thereto, and a number
of counters. Each player receives tolls by means of counters paid by the other players
for moving their models over his or her railway or railways. Each player endeavours
to obtain, by moving in turn his model or models to the other player's stations, and by
payment of tolls, to obtain as many tickets in as few moves as possible, from the other
player's lines of railways; the player who at the end of the game has taken most
tickets being the winner.
2-A new method of teaching the geographical position of railroads, towns through
which they pass, and the localities which they connect.
HENRY REASON.