Year: 1888

page_text: I, EDWARD TREMLETT ('ARTER, Electrical Engineer, of Frumpton House, Huddleston
Road Willesden Green, London N W do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows
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The following is my Specification of my Invention of a new parlour game of
numbers
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I take a large number (that is to say, about two or three hundred) of cards, about
one inch square each, and on one side of each of these caids I print numeral or
number
The numerals range between 1 and 9 inclusively, and there are about equal numbers
of each numeral in the complete set of cards
The game is played as follows, that is to say, all the cards are spread out upon a
table, with their numbered sides downwards, a space being left in the centre which is
called the pool The players sit round the table and in turn select cards, and plice
them in the pool with the numbered sides upwards A high number, such as 21, having
been previously chosen, the players all watch the numerals exposed in the pool, and
select such cards as have numerals which will add up to this proviously chosen number
The player who is the first to select any set in this way, retains it, and the player who
gets the highest number of such sets 15, by the rules and constitution of this game, the
winner of the game

page_text: I, EDWARD TRFYLLETT CARTFR, Electrical Engineer, of Frampton House Huddleston
Road Willesden Green London NW do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in whit minnoi the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascert uned in and by the following statement
I take a large number (that is to say, a number varying between one and three
hundred or there abouts) of cards, about one inch squae eich, and on one side of each
of these curds I print numeral or number
The numerals range between 1 and 9 inclusively, and there are about equal numbers
of each numeral in the complete set of cards
I place all these cards, together with the instructions and rules of the game, in a
suitable cardboard or wooden box
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This game, my herein described Invention, nay be played by any number of plivers
There are two methods 1 have designed for playing the game, that is to say -The
first method is as follows. All the players se it themselves round a table of suitable
Size The cards are spread over the table, with the numbered side downwards
space is left clear in the middle, and is called the Pool The players in turn plice a
card in the Pool, numbered side upwards, and all the players watch the exposed
numbers thus accumulating, until one player sees such numbers as will add up to 21
He then cries "Sigma and if the first to cry it, he may withdraw those numbers,
which form Set
When all the cuds have been played in this manner, the player who has the greatest
number of Sets is the winner of the game The number 21 is occasionally changed
to 22, and so on throughout the game, this changing taking place only when the
Pool is cleared by any Set being removed The second method resembles the first,
with the single exception that all the players place their cards in the Pool
simultaneously
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I