Year: 1896

page_text: I, JAMES HENRY COGHLAN BOIG, of Rossett Avenue, Liverpool, Master Mariner, do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an indoor game, and to a board upon which the same is
played.
A portion of the board is divided into allotments distinctively coloured. Around
this portion four paths or courses run, side by side and distinctively coloured with the
colours of the before mentioned allotments; and each course is stepped or divided
into a number of spaces. These courses are traversed by four sets of men, each set
comprising four men, each set starting level at equal distances round the course,
Each player appropriates one set of men, or two players may have each two sets.
Dice are thrown onto the coloured allotments, and according to the colours upon
which such dice fall the men of the set in respect of which the cast was made are
advanced so many steps on correspondingly coloured courses.
I prefer to arrange the board as follows:-I draw three concentric circles. The
centre circle I divide into four quadrants and colour them red, blue, green, and
yellow. The annular space between this circle and next circle I divide into sixteen
radial spaces or segments, so that four spaces radiate from each quadrant, each space
being coloured red, blue, green, and yellow. There are thus twenty spaces distinctively
coloured, five red, five blue, and so on, and these form the allotments onto which the
dice are cast. The annular space enclosed by the third or outer circle is divided into
the four courses or paths above referred to. Instead of being concentric the courses
are zig-zagged, so as to form an eight pointed star, and the eight approximately
triangular spaces between the inner course and the boundary of the allotments are
halved and respectively coloured to correspond with the colours of the courses, and
in each half triangle I place a star, i.e., sixteen stars in all or one for each man. The
courses are divided into steps, four to each segment, or sixty four steps to each course.
At points diametrically opposite each other, at the point of every other star, I place a
star, which indicates the starting point of the men.
In playing the game I place four men on the four courses at the four starting
places, each set being run by one player. The first player then casts the dice onto
the coloured segments and quadrants. Should one die fall on a blue allotment and
the other die on a red allotment, the players two men on the red and blue courses
respectively are advanced a number of steps corresponding with the values of the dice.
The players then cast the dice seriatim and advance their men accordingly. When
a man is overtaken by another, it is covered by the overtaking one, and cannot be
moved until the upper one is again moved forward. Each man as it completes its
course of sixty four steps is placed on the star whose triangle is coloured to correspond

page_text: with the course traversed by the man, and the player who first succeeds in getting all
his four men upon these stars wins the game.
Dated this 26th day of October 1896.
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent. Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10 St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.
1, JAMES HENRY COGHLAN BOIG, of 10, Rossett Avenue, Liverpool, Master Mariner,
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 an indoor game, and to a board upon which the same is
played.
The drawing hereto annexed illustrates the plan of the board upon which the game
is played.
Upon reference to the drawing it will be seen that the central portion of
the board is divided into allotinents, A, distinctively coloured. Around these
allotments four paths or courses, B, run, side by side, and distinctively coloured with
the same colours as the allotments; and each course is stepped or divided into a
number of spaces. These courses are traversed by four sets of men, of any suitable
shape, each set comprising four men, and each set start level at the four stars, C,
disposed at equal distances around the course. Each player appropriates one set of
men, or two players may have each two sets. Dice are then thrown on the coloured
allotments, by one of the players, and according to the colours upon which such dice
fall the man or men (of the player who made the cast) on the course or courses
corresponding in colour to the colour of the allotments upon which the dice alighted
are advanced as many steps as the face value of the dice indicates.
The courses, B, are preferably zig-zag as shewn in the drawing, forming an eight-
pointed star, and are divided into steps-four to each segment-sixty-four in all.
At each corner of the board I provide a circle, containing four smaller circles, the
latter being distinctively coloured to correspond with the courses and forming goals
for the men after the latter have run their courses.
In playing the game I place four men on the four courses at the four stars, each
set being run by one player. The first player then casts dice on the coloured
allotments. Should one die fall on a blue allotinent and another die on a red
allotment, the player's men on the red and blue courses are advanced a number of
steps corresponding with the values of the dice. The players then-in turn-cast
the dice and advance their men accordingly. When a man is overtaken by a man of
another player, the first man is covered by the overtaking one and cannot be moved
until the upper one is again moved forward. Each man as it completes its course of
sixty-four steps is placed on the goal which is coloured to correspond with the course
traversed by the man, and the player who first succeeds in getting all his four men
upon the four goals of his corner, wins the game.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
As a means of recreation, the game and board hereinabove described, the
characteristic features of which being the casting of dice upon allotments coloured to

page_text: correspond with stepped courses upon which men are advanced a number of steps
corresponding with the face value of the dice.
Dated this 24th day of July 1897
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10 St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.