An Improved Game.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1892
. Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Game.
1, CHARLES WOLSTENHOLME of 93, Westgate, Burnley, in the County of
Lancaster, Book Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is an improvement on the game known as "Tyddledy Winks.”
As is well known this game consists of a suitably shaped cup, into which small
discs or counters of bone or the like are projected by being placed on a thick cloth
and sprung therefrom by means of larger discs of bone or the like.
My invention consists in forming the cup into divisions preferably four in
number, but more or less may be used if desired. The said cup and its divisions
may be constructed of any suitable material but preferably of earthenware. Each
division or pool is coloured corresponding to the colour on the counters of each
separate competitor. The players choose their colours, then place them in a line
before them, and play in turns playing them all from the line first.
There is a pool for each player and the object of each competitor is to get his
counters into the pool corresponding in colour.
The following rules, though not necessarily restrictive, are suggested.
(1) Should a player be successful in putting one of his counters into his pool,
he is entitled to play another.
(2) Should a competitor project a counter into another players pool he cannot
play again until released by the latter projecting one of his own counters into the
said pool. Both players then take out their respective counters, and the one who
played last replays.
(3) Should any player get a counter into another pool before he has three in, he
must take out the two or one whichever he has in, and play them again from the
starting point.
(4) Should a counter, while being played drop on the edge of another player's
counter that counter is considered fast; the owner cannot touch it until his neighbour
thinks fit to release him.
(5) The winner of the game is the one who gets all his own counters into his
own pool first.
It will be manifest that a considerably greater amount of interest will be centered
in the game, over the original game of "Tyddledy Winks."
Dated this 15th day of January 1892.
THOS. RICHMOND,
Agent.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Game.
I, CHARLES WOLSTENHOLME of 93, Westgate, Burnley, in the County of
Lancaster, Book Stationer, 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 is an improvement on the game known as Tyddledy Winks. As
is well known this game consists of a suitably shaped cup, into which small discs
or counters of bone or the like are projected by being placed on a thick cloth and
sprung therefrom by means of larger discs of bone or the like.
My invention consists in forming the cup into divisions preferably four in

page_text: number, but more or less may be used, if desired. The said cup and its divisions
may be constructed of any suitable material, but preferably of earthenware. Each
division or pool is coloured corresponding to the colour on the counters of each
separate competitor. The players choose their own counters, then place them in a
line before them, and play in turns, all from the line first.
There is a pool for each player, and the object of each competitor is to get his
counters into the pool corresponding in colour.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a plan view of my cup or receptacle for counters, the said cup being
divided into a suitable number of divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 by the partitions A, B C
and D. Each division or pool is coloured corresponding to the colour on the
counters of each separate player.
The rules for playing the game may be much varied :-In some cases it may be
preferable to stipulate that each player shall have to project his counters into the
pool corresponding in colour, and if one should by chance be projected into the
pool of his neighbour, the latter shall have the privilege of scoring one of his
counters first. In other instances, it may be desirable to have each division
numbered as in the drawing, the colours of the pools being ignored. The player
who, after projecting his counters, totals up the greatest number wins the game.
The divisions or pools may, if desired, diminish in size according to the number,
the highest number being the smallest division.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The cup or receptacle, divided into a suitable number of pools or divisions, the
same being coloured corresponding to the colour of the counters, and numbered or
otherwise, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of October 1802
THOS. RICHMOND,
Agent.