TRUVIDIONAL DIBUITIVATION.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
TRUVIDIONAL DIBUITIVATION.
Indoor Game.
I, ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, East Hurlet House, Hurlet, in the County of
Renfrew, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An indoor game for two players, to be played on a board divided into 64 squares
preferably, or it may be played on an ordinary draught-board. 144 pieces are
provided made of plain strips of wood, vulcanite bone or other suitable material;
about or of an inch square, and the length a little less than the size of a square
on the board. The pieces are of two colours, preferably blue and red; seventy-two
of each colour.
The game consists in placing pieces around the squares on the board so as
to completely surround or enclose any square with a certain colour. A square
thus enclosed counts to the colour enclosing it, and the winner of the game is the
player who encloses the greater number of squares.
The game may be varied by placing pieces so as to form certain alphabetical
letters, crosses, or other figures, instead of squares.
Dated this the 28th day of June 1893.
ARCHIBALD COCHRANE.
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ARCHIBALD COCHRANE East Hurlet, Hurlet, Renfrewshire, Engineer, 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:
An indoor game for two players, to be played on a board divided into 64 squares
preferably, or it may be played on an ordinary draught-board. 144 pieces are
provided made of plain strips of wood, vulcanite, bone or other suitable material,
about anor of an inch square and the length a little less than the size of a
square on the board. The pieces are of two colours, preferably blue & red-
72 of each colour.
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The play is as follows-Each player chooses a colour and plays in turn, one
piece at a time. The pieces are placed around any square on the board, so as to
surround or enclose a square with a certain colour. The opponent " blocks ΟΙ
plays a piece to prevent a square being completed. The player who has the
greater number of squares enclosed, when the board is filled up, wins the game.
Another form of the game, called "reserved squares is played as follows.-
Play commences as described above. When two pieces of one colour have been
placed on any square on the board, this square is considered "reserved," and
opponent must not play a piece on such a square, except under the following
conditions. When two reserved squares of different colours are contiguous, a
player is allowed, in his turn, to play a piece on to opponent's reserved square
to form a side for his own; provided, he has as many pieces on his square before
playing, as his opponent. Example.-Red to play, see Figure 1. Red having as
many pieces on his reserved square as blue, is entitled to claim line A to form
a side for his own square. Blue may next play at B. If red fails in his turn to fill

page_text: in C. then blue may do so (having an equal number of pieces to red) & win the
square. A square cannot be "reserved" if already occupied by an opposing
piece. When the board has been filled up, the player who has the greater number
of squares enclosed, is the winner.
In "alphabetical squares "the pieces are placed so as to form any of the
letters E. F. H. L. S. T. X. (The S. being formed with square corners as shewn
Fig. 2.) The value of the letters is according to the number of pieces composing
them. Thus E. H. S. count 5 each. F. T. X = 4, whilst L only counts 3.
Bee Fig. 2. The game is won by the person having the highest score.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
A game played by placing strips of wood (or other suitable material) of different
colours, along the sides or around the squares of a draught or similar board, so as
to form squares, or certain alphabetical letters, with a particular colour,
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this the 23rd day of March 1894.
ARCHIBALD COCHRANE.