US1328711A - Game device - Google Patents

Description

C. B. CARR.

GAME DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 9, 1918.

Patented Jan. 20, 1920.

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73 INVENTOR V BY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BOWNE CARR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME DEVICE.

Application filed. October 9, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BOWNE CARR, citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State. of New York, have invented certain new and useful Game Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in games, and has forits object to produce a simple device of this kind that may be played by a number of persons competitively, and in the playing of which the element of chance is so combined with the exercise of skill as to stimulate interest and provide entertainment.

A further object of my invention is to construct my game in a form that will be self contained when not in use, providing means for holding and storing the game accessories within the body of the game structure, the latter being foldable upon itself for this and other purposes.

These and other objects of my invention are set forth in the subjoined specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a material part of this disclosure, the particular features of novelty which constitute my invention being pointed out in the claims at the end hereof.

In the drawings Figure l is a plan view of my in its opened position.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view partly broken away, showing the interior of the game board with the accessories in place therein.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View of the game board. I

Fig. '4 is ,a detail View of a collapsible dice box which may be used in playing my game board game, dice being indicated in dotted lines;

and

Fig. 5 is a detail plan view of the face of one of my playing cards.

My game board is composed of two sectional parts 10, 11, placed side by side, and joined together by a common, hinged joint 12, in such manner that the parts may be opened out into an approximately continuous flat playin surface 13, as shown Figs. 1 and 3, oneialf of the said playing surface being upon the top of the part 10, while the other half is upon the top of the part 11, the configurations of the two halves of the playing surface registering with each other at their joining edges.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 257,491.

The two parts 10, 11, of the game board on the side opposite the playing surface are each provided with sides 14, and end pieces 15, which register with and abut'against each other respectively, when the game board is folded up into its closed position, thereby forming a boxlike structure, in the interior of which I provide receptacles 16, 17 to hold the cards 18, and dice-box 19, respectively, when the game is not in use, as'shown in Fig. 2.

The central portion of the playing surface 13 isdivided into a plurality of concentrically arranged, ring-like stripes, 20,

21, 22, with a central circular space 23, the

whole being surrounded by a rectangularly arranged outwardly projecting border 24, while said stripes, and border are serially colored, that is to say the central space 23, and the stripes 22 and border 24, are given one color, the stripes 20 another color, and.

the stripes 21 a still different color, so that, said colors are alternated throughout the playing surface.

I prefer to color the stripes 22, 23, and border 24 in blue, the stripes 20 in white and the stripes 21 in red, these colors following each other in regular order throughout the playing surface, I also formwhite stars 25 in the corners of the border 24.

At the ends of the game board, beyond the border 24, I form surfaces 26, 27, to receive the cards of the layers during the progress of the game. hese surfaces are divided into a centralsection 28 to receive the pack of cards that is being used, and

Patented Jan. 20, 1920.

surface of the game board to form cuplike receptacles adaptedto hold the cards.

In connection with my game board as above described I use cubical, colored dice 31, each of which is given a different color corresponding with the colors of the like stripes 20, 21, and 22, and having values displayed upon their respective sides progressively from 1 to 5, the sixth side of the cubes being left blank.

I also employ cards 18, the deck of which may consist of any desired number of the same, the said cards having backs of uniform pattern, while their faces are colored in sets or series to correspond with the colors of the stripes 20, 21, and 22, each of said cards bearing upon its face a numeral indicating its value, as for example from 1 to 5, or as desired. A blank margin 32 is pro:- vided between the edges of each card and its colored face so that the color of the card will not .be apparent at the edges thereof.

In making use of my game the pack of cards is thoroughly shuffled and then placed upon the central section 28 in readiness for drawing. The dice 31 are then placed in the dice-box 19 which is shaken, and the dice are then thrown out upon the playing surface 13, the value of the throw depending upon the positions in which the dice come to rest upon the playing surface and the numerals displayed upon the tops of the dice.

Various rules of play may be adopted, as my game is susceptible of many modifications of play. As an example, if any dice rests upon a stripe of its own color, it may be declared out and uncountable, while if it rests upon or even touches stripes of any color than its own, it may be counted. If any ofthe dice display a numeral the player may draw a card from the pack.

If the red and white dice should both display a numeral 5 the player may draw two cards, while three cards may be drawn should all three dice display the numeral 5.

If the number on the red dice is greater than the added numbers on the white and blue dice, the player may draw two cards, while if the number on the blue dice is greater than the added numbers on the other two dice, the player cannot draw a card.

If all three dice rest on stripes of their own colors, the player must allow his next opponent to draw a card from those he has already drawn, while if he has no cards he forfeits his next throw of the dice.

After the last card has been drawn, eaclr player adds up the numbers on his cards, keeping each color separate. The three sums are then added together for a total sum. If the numbers on the red cards are more. in the aggregate than the sum total ofv the numbers on the white and blue cards, the player may add one for each card which he has to his total, while, on the contrary, if the total of the numbers on his blue cards exceeds the sum total of the numbers on his other cards, he must subtract one for each of the cards held by him, from his total.

'Having-now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A game comprising dice, cards, and a game board formed in two sections hingedly connected together, each of said sec tions having sides and end pieces forming a box-like structure, holders arranged within one of said sections adapted to hold playing accessories when not in use, said game-board having a playing surfaceformed on the tops thereof comprising a plurality of concentrically arranged vari colored stripes, and extensions on said playing surface having sections therein adapted to contain playing cards.

2. In a game, comprising cards, dice, and a game board formed in two sections hingedly connected together, each of said sections having sides and end pieces forming a box-like structure, holders arranged within one of said sections adapted to hold playing accessories when not in use, said game-board having a playing surface formed on the top thereof comprising a plurality of concentrically arranged vari colored stripes, the colors of said stripes being arranged in regular series of colors from the center of the playing surface outward, extensions projecting beyond said playing surface, and sections formed in said extensions adapted to contain playing cards.

3. A game comprising in combination, cards, dice, a game board formed in two sections hingedly connected together, each of said sections having sides and end pieces forming a box-like structure, holders arranged within one of said sections adapted to hold playing accessories when not in use, said board having a playing surface formed on the top thereof comprising a plurality of concentrically arranged vari colored stripes, extensions on said playing surface having sections therein adapted to contain playing cards, a set of playing cards seriallyvari colored on one side of each card, said cards having a'uniform blank margin on said colored side of each card, the colors of said cards corresponding to the colors of said stripes.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 23rd day of March, A. D. 1918.

CHARLES BOWNE CARR.

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