A New Game.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game.
I, CAROLINE EMMA BLYTH 9 Wharton Road Kensington W. Widow of Bt. Lt.-Col.
S. F. Blyth 35th Royal Sussex Regiment do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The game is played on a cardboard plan & is a new design composed of various
coloured postage stamps. It is played with soldiers & a teetotum. Two or four may
play at the same time."
The game consists in a battle between opposite sides.
The soldiers to be positioned (on the stamps only) according to fancy but not on
the centre stamps. The white centre squares form starting points on which to
spin the teetotum, the object of the game being to kill as many of the enemy as
possible.
Rule 1. Spin the teetotum-flinging it not permitted, any one killing his own men
hands them over to the opposite side but may place them where he will-probably
in front.
Rule 2. The game is finished when all the men on one side are killed leaving the
opposite side victorious.
Rule 3. The person who spins the highest number commences the game.
The dead soldiers are to be left on the battle field till the game is over.
Dated this 30th day of March 1890.
CAROLINE EMMA BLYTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Game.
I, CAROLINE EMMA BLYTH, of 9 Wharton Road, Kensington, in the County of
London, Widow, 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 :-
My invention relates to a new game which is played on a special designed board of
any suitable material; or the said board may be planned out into various squares, or
oblong divisions to receive various coloured postage stamps, coloured views, photographs,
or the like.
The game is played with models of miniature soldiers placed in any of the artistic
squares and a teetotum. Two or four persons may play the aforesaid game at the
same time.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon."
Figure 1 represents a plan of the board b, set out into a series of equal divisions on
each longitudinal side of the said board; the dark or black divisions & are those on
which the players place their men, with the white divisions d left open or unoccupied.
Figure 2 is a plan of the division a and portions of the white divisions d, drawn to
an enlarged scale. This figure is broken off for want of space.
The game consists in a battle being fought between opposite sides, the soldiers
being placed in position on the divisions a according to fancy, but not on the centre
divisions c.
The white centre squares c form starting points on which to spin the
teetotum.
The object of the game being to kill as many of the enemy as possible by bringing
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page_text: the teetotum in its action of spinning to twirl against the soldiers in order to place
them hors-de-combat.
The following rules are to be observed :-
Rule 1. Spin the teetotum, do not fling it; and any one killing his own men hands
them over to the opposite side, or he may place them where he desires, probably
in front.
Rule 2. The game is finished when all the men on one side are killed leaving the
opposite side victorious.
Rule 3. The person who spins the highest number commences the game.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration, and that
the shapes, materials, and proportions of the various parts may be varied in many
ways within the scope of my invention.
am aware that a teetotum is not new and therefore I do not claim it as any part
of my invention; but I am not aware that it has been used for the same object as
herein before mentioned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The combination of a new game played on a special designed board of any
material, planned into various divisions and marked by various coloured postage
stamps, coloured views, photographs, or the like, and a number of miniature soldiers,
in conjunction with a teetotum, substantially as herein described and according to
Figures 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of the board or fighting ground to be formed into any shape,
size, or of any suitable material, substantially as herein described and for the purpose
set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1890:
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