Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
PENRHYN STANLEY MACQUISTON, of 33 Renfield Street, Glasgow, Chartered.
Accountant, 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 new game, which we propose calling the game
"Trespa."
The game is played by two, three or four players with picces representing
poachers, gamekeepers, also rabbits and pheasants, upon a board designed with
passages along which the moves are made from spot to spot.
Figure 1 is a plan of the board
Figure 2 is an elevation and
Figure 3 is a plan of the poacher or gamekeeper.
Figure 4 is an elevation, and
Figure 5 a plan of the rabbit or pheasant.
The black lines a on the board represent walls or hedges and the pieces.
representing the gamekeepers or poachera cannot move across these lines, but must
he moved from spot to spot along the passages formed by the lines.
The passages are of various lengths containing two or more spots placed therein
at equal or unequal distances, causing the moves to be short or long. Six of the
pieces are poachers and six are gamekeepers. The poachers are distinguished from.
the gamekeepers by a different colour. They are each marked, preferably with a
letter, and are ranged at one end of the board, each piece in the home marked with
its distinctive letter. The gamekeepers are marked with the same letters and are
ranged at the opposite end of the board, each one in its corresponding home. Each
poacher and gamekeeper is furnished with an upright spike on which is hung any
rabbits or pheasants it may capture. The ten rabbits and ten pheasants are in the
form of a small bell or cup, perforated with a hole to allow their being carried on.
the spikes of the pieces which capture them.
The twenty rabbite and pheasants are indiscriminately arranged upon the
twenty ringed spots on the board and there remain stationary until captured by
poacher or gamekeeper. A rabbit or pheasant is captured by a piece simply
moving on to a spot next to it. It is then hung upon the spike of the piece and
thus is moved about in the custody of the piece which may capture others in the
same manner. A capture of this kind entitles the capturing piece to an additional
more. Throughout the game the men may be moved in any direction forwards
or backwards or laterally from one spot to another, but no piece may cross a line,
and a piece having once left its home can not return into it for refuge. A game-
keeper captures a poacher, or vice versa, by moving into the passage in which the
opponent stands, and irrespective of any spots or rabbits or pheasants which may
intervene. A man so captured must have been in a straight line of fire" and
no piece can be captured across a line. For example if a ponchor is on the spot
marked b and a gamekeeper moves from the spot marked c to the spot marked d,
the gamekeeper captures the game on the ringed spot marked e and, having another
move, moves on to the spot marked e. He is then able to capture the poacher on
the spot marked b and have him lifted and placed in the square marked with the
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page_text: gamekeeper's distinguishing letter. The captive is lifted and placed in the home
of its captor along with all the booty on its spike or iu its home, and the captor
is then entitled to one additional move in any direction.
In starting the game, the first move always to be made by a poacher, next by a
gamekeeper and so continuing alternately till the finish when all the men of one
class, either poachers or gamekeepers will have been captured. When two
players play, no counting of score is necessary, but when three or four persons play,
those who hold the men of the winning sido count up the value of their captures
to decide the actual winner.
A piece onco captured takes no further part in the game.
Obviously the details of a game of this sort may be varied without altering the
general character of the game. The number of pieces employed may be varied
and the arrangement of the passages may also be altered.
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 new game of Trespa, substantially as described.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.