US1373448A - Game - Google Patents

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. S. PRECNAUSKS.

GAME.,

Mmc/111011 mm 1.1M/ 3,

Eatent'e Apr. 5, M321.

l| /11l1l1l1111l 111111111111 NTE ALEXANDERS. rianolnnusxns, or WAUKEGAN, Juniors.,

To all whom if may concern.

Beit known that I, ALEXANDER S. Pluton, LNaUsKAs, a citizenof Lithuania, residing at Waukegan, in the county of Lake and Statel of Illinois, haveinvented certain .new andv useful Improvements iny Games,y of which thefollowing is a specitication.-

My invention relates inV general vto games,

and moreparticularlyto agame of the .type

checkers, but which may be played byy two,

A. further object of ymy invention is, to `provide a @famewhich will be simplek to understand 2but which will afford entertainment and amusement to the players.

invention will be mo-re fully disclosed hereinafter with reference to theaccomfy panying drawing, in which the same isillustrated as embodied in a convenient and practical form, and in which- V Figure 1 is a plan view of the board;

Fig. 2 is-aplan viewifof .one of the men; and

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the reverse side of one of the men.

Reference letter A indicates a board, which may be made of any suitable material, such, for instance, as paste-board or wood. The board A is triangular in shape and the upper surface thereof is divided into triangular spaces, alternate spaces being of one color and intermediate spaces of a distinguishing color. The alternate spaces b may, for instance, beV black, and the intermediate spaces a, white. The corner spaces, B, C and D, are colored differently from the other spaces. For instance, eachk corner space might comprise a border of the same color as the spaces b and a central portion of the same color as the intermediate spaces GAME." I

y specifi@'tam' or Letfesratent.' Y Patentedk Apr, 5, '1921. Appiicationxmedi/ray'3,21920. serial Nea/8,382. 7

toand extending inwardlyffrom the corner space D. f l The inner rows of spaces .714, c4 and Z4 are differently designated from ythe .other rows, as byk means of lines ce2 and e3, respec-'QI tively. The krows bt, c4` and d4 in which thesaid lines e1, e2 ande3 respectively occur aref known as neutral spa`ces. i Sets of men are lprovided which prefer-` ably substantially conform to the shapes of the spaces. One of suchmen is. shown` in- Figs. 2 and ,3. ri`he opposite surfaces of the men are diiferently colored. For instance, one surface may correspond to the corner spaces on the board, as shown in Fig. 2, while the opposite surface may be of a lsolid color corresponding to the color'of. the spaces Z) on the board, as showirin Fig; 3. Three sets of men are provided, each set being distinguishableiii/color from the A'other sets.. The game is played as follows: i f f When three persons are playing, the three sets of men, preferably ten vmen to aset, arey placed; upon the board; rIhe` person vwho is playing fromithe cornervBarranges his men to the corner space of Veither of his opponents, and in doing so he may jump one of his men over the man of either opponent on spaces b in a direction toward the corners of either of his opponents, provided that ythere are unoccupied spaces b between the opponents men in the direction he is moving his man. It is not permissible to move the men backward,` e., toward the corner of the board from which they are initially played but after a man has reached the corner space of either of the opponents,` it is turned over so as to indicate that it may then move in any direction and'may at a single move jump over the opponents men located in any space along any of the rows of spaces. A man occupying a space in the rows designated as neutral by the letters ffnet el, ei2 and e3 may not, however, be jumped by an opponent whose man is also on the same ileges thereby as when reaching theoppon-l f ents corner space.

Whether two or more persons play, the winner is the player who has jumped all of his opponents men or has the same blocked, and still has one or more of his own men left on the board. Y

In playingthe game it is possible for two players to play against a third, in which event each of the two would coperate with his partner to jump or block all of the men of the third player. Where twoy play against a third, the moves of each of the two lwould be toward the corner space of the third and neither of the partners would play toward the corner space of the other.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that I have invented a game which is simple and easy to understand, but which at the same time is capable of such a variety of moves as to aiiord amusement and entertainment to the players.

I claim:

1.` A game comprising a triangular board having a triangular space at each corner and p a r allel rows of triangular spaces extending inwardly fromthe corners, the corner spaces having a different appearance from` the other spaces, and the alternate spaces in the rows being of a color contrasting with the color of the intermediate spaces in the rows,

ternate spaces being of a color contrasting with the color of the intermediate spaces,

and the spaces in one row in each series being distinctively marked, and a plurality` of sets of men, the men .of each set being of a dierent color romthose of the other sets, and the number Votmen `in eachset i corresponding. to thenumber o alternate spaces in a predetermined number ofrows.

3.' A game comprising a triangular board having Athe surfacethereof divided into a triangular space at each corner and parallel rows of triangular spaces extending inwardly from the corners, alternate spaces being of -a color contrasting with the color of the intermediate spaces, the corner spaces having a different 2Lppearance from the other spaces and the spaces in one row in each series being distinctively marked, and a plurality of sets of reversible men', the men in eachA set being colored differently from those of the other sets,fand one side of each' man corresponding in appearance to the corner spaces on the board. f

-'Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of April, 1920. j

ALEXADER S. PRECINAUSKS.

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