US1787521A - Game - Google Patents

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Jan 6, 1 931'.

G. E. HARRINGTON, JR

Original Filed June 21, 1928 LISA 7" YZlO' OARK' 4/ Gf/l" v YEMou/ at 0E l /MW W M ATTORNEY GEa/eeE E. HARR/NG 72W, J8.

Patented Jan. 6, 1931 GEORG EJHARB G QN;m,- or NE RK, Assxeu on orbits-nets To. Y FISENNE OECNEW YORK, v I V GAME v Application filedJune 2 1, 1928, SeriaI' No. 287,134. i Renewed November 1,1930.

This invention relates toa game and has for its principal object to'provide a game which can be played by two or more persons and in which interestwill, be sustained to the very send' f- ()ther objects and advantages will hereinai'ter appear.

In the drawings forming part of this specification: p f I 10 Figure l is a plan vi'ewjof-one of the'pl'ayers boards with part of the markers thereon;

' Figure 2 illustrates the fifteen markers which each player receives'and placeson his board;

Figure 3is apersp'ective View of one of the,

pair of indicators used'for' controlling the playing of the game; and

. Figure 4 is a similar view of the other indicator, the two indicators being-identical. The equipment for playingthe game consists of a board 20 for each player,,having the numerals from one to fifteen marked thereon as indicated; Eac'hofthese'boards ispref-.

erably made to simulate an artists palette, being provided with anot'ch 21 and anopening 22 therein. The notch and opening enable the boards to be held by the players as a palette is customarily held byan artist, so that the game can beplayed on a train or other vehicle, or under any 'otherc'ircumstances where a suitable table is'not available- Each player receives fifteen markers,

which he places upon his board; Each'of these markers is of a distinctive color. There arefive markers, ofcolors which will beherein referred 'to as primary colors, these being red, b e yello Wh te, a d black, p tively. There are also tenmarker's of colors which are herein referredtoassecondary colors, these being orange, purple, pink, dark red, green, light yellow, dark yel1ow,light blue, steel, and gray.

Each marker has a number on the back thereof to indicate the'position in Which it is position assigned on the board is not important but it is desirable that all the boards shall be set up identically and according to a uniform rule so that the players may memorize the arrangement and thereby be enabled to be placed on the board. The particular to locate the colorson their own and on their Opponents boards with-facilityr V The object ofeach player is to remove all of his own markers from his board before his opponents. The removal of the'inarkers is controlled by the rolling ofindieator sticks i 23 and 24, shownin Figu resfi and 4.

Each ofthese sticks hasis'ix lateral faces, the faces-of each stick being, respectively, red, yellow, white, black, blue,fandmottled. The 50 player who has first turn takes the two sticks inhis'hand and rolls them. If'the same color' comes uppermost on both sticks he. is. en.-

- titled to remove the marker of that Color from his board. If different colors come up r.- g most, he is entitled toremove, his secondh y color formed by thecombination of colors in} dicated by 'thesticks from his board. Thus the following combinations entitle him to remove the marker indicated:

Red d.yel o s swss swsmQrange ed. nd. b ue,

Be and.bl QKTQQ Ls-T QQ? el -andlbl e w i ITQBII. Yell w d.- Wh tBe Light yello =Dark y llow V The, player havingthe StieksflOIlfifltlQS t0 r-olltheni so long as the removal (XEj'QlbhQl, a

primary ora secondary colonis indicated,

provided he still has "the indicated ccolorj Ol 8,5 his board. In case r the indicated color I ha already been removed fromhis board, h loses the sticksto the'next player to hisllefi having that color still remainin .on his board Such player removes-the Indicated color from his board as ifhe. had rolled it; hincr self, takes the sticks and ymooeeds to FQl themin similar manner to :efiectthe remeve of the markers from-his own board;

Shoul'da-J player roll'the sticks S -thibfithe "9.

mottled side of either ofthem 1 comesupper .most,:-l1e loses the sticks to the, player at his left and is; required to. forfeit a counter. Should hot-h. mottled faces; some, uppermost simultaneously, he. loses, the sticks; to thev 'lee player at his left, and two counters. v

The play thus proceeds until one of the is required to forfeit players has'succeeded in completely clearing his board of markers,.whereupon he becomes the winner and is creditedwith a score equal to the total number of counters forfeited by all of the adverse players.

It will be seen that at each roll of tlie sticks i there arethirty-six combinations possible;

accounted for as follows: There is one chance that'the double penalty will be indicated,

ten chances that a single penalty will be indi color will be indicated, making five chances that a primary color will be indicated.

It will be seen that the primary colors are twice as hard to remove as are the secondary colors and that a player who is apparently having a goodrun of luck in removing, his secondary colors in the early part of the game is in danger :of being overtaken and passed,

particularlybecauseof thediiiiculty which he may encounter in the removal of the primary colors 1' The rules of play, moreover have a tendency to make the contest close at the end and tocause unexpected upsets. A player having his board cleared to a considerable extent finds it progressively more difficult to retain the sticks. Then too, each time that he rolls a color not useful tohimself he is assisting an opponent by entitling such opponent to remove such color. The player whois ahead is in greatest danger of missing his turns with the sticks by having'the sticks passed from the player at his right to a player at his left who is able'to'take advantage of a color rolled by the'player at his right. Because of the frequent shifting of the relative standing interest'toward the end of the game becomes more intense 'andthe conclusion is climactic.

The player who misses'histurns with the sticksmost frequently or who loses the sticks by rolling colors alreadyremoved from his board has to some extent a compensating advantagein that-he avoids the forfeiture of a large number of counters and therefore avoids having a large number. deducted from his a score at the end of the game. Preferably a series of games consisting of a pre-arranged number is played consecutivelyfa'nd the positive and negative scores of the players are and totalled carried over from game to game at the end of the series.

When played according to the above rules the game is intensely interesting to adults as well as younger folk. If desired, however, it

-may' also be played by young children without score keeping and without penalties,'the object being simply to see which child can clear 1,792,521 Y i 1. 5 I .1

his board first. WVhen played by children the game is educational aswell as entertaining, since it teaches the children thecombinations formed b the primary colors. I Y It will e appreciated, of course, that other forms of indicators might be employed for deriving the, indicated color combinations, as for egzample a pair of dice having colored faces, or a plurality of dials having colored sectors and provided with'spinning pointers. "Thesticks", however, are regarded as one important feature of: the invention. They "roll in more regular paths than dice andcan ,tl 1erefore be. recovered more. conveniently.

Theyare set 1nto motionsimultaneously and e thereforeaiford less opportunity of securing a calculated result than would successively spun pointers.

WVhile the employment of colored indicators and colored markers is regarded as a featureiof the invention the indicia may be varied by employing combinations of numbers, or of letters, or of letters' andnumbers.

While I have illustrated and described in detail certain preferred forms of my invention, it is to be understood that changes may be made therein and the invention embodied in other structures, I do not, therefore, desire to limit myself to the specific constructions illustrated, but intend .to cover my invention broadly in whatever form its principle may be utilized. 1.

I claim: p

1. In a game of the kind described, in combination, a. set of markers of distinctive colon or's, certain of the markers having primary colors, and others having secondary colors, a pair of indicators, each bearing primary color indicia and adapted for. simultaneous operation to indicate the primary. colors and combinations thereof, to control the disposition of the markers.

v,2. In a game of the kind described, in combination, a set of markers of distinctive colors, certain of the markershaving primary colors, and others havingsecondary colors, a pair of indicators, each bearing primary color indicia and adapted for simultaneous operation to indicate the primary colors and combinations thereof,"to control the disposition of themarkers, said indicators also bearing penalty indicia.

In testimony whereof I have. affixed. my signature to this specification.

r GEO. E; HARRINGTON, JR.

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