US604401A

US604401A - Alexander lang

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Publication number: US604401A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1915-05-24

Description

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A LANG GAME DEVICE.

Patented May 24,1898.

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ALEXANDER LANG, OE ROSEISLE, CANADA GAM E DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,401, dated May 24, 1898.

Application filed August 30, 1897- ,7 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER LANG, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Roseisle, in the county of Dufferin and Province of Manitoba,Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Devices, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to game devices, and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is calculated to amuse and entertain both the old and the young and which is also instructive.

The invention isfully disclosed in the following specificatiomof which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved game device, showing the same in position for use; Fig. 2,a perspective view of asetof blocks .or cubes which form a part of the game device, and Fig. 3 a similar view of the opposite sides of the same blocks or cubes.

In the drawingsforming part of this specification the separate parts of my improved game device are designated by letters of reference, and in the practice of my invention I provide a game-board A, which is divided into squares B by means of linesC and D, which cross each other at right angles,and the squares B are ten in number in both directions. I also provide two sets of blocks or cubes, which are designated by the referenceletters G, and these separate sets of blocks or cubes are each ten in number and are exactly alike, with the exception that one set is colored differently from the other. Each block of each set is provided with six sides or faces, and each side or face is provided with a number, and each block is provided with its own numbers and no number is repeated in the entire set, and the numbers used in each set of blocks extend from 1 to 60, and these numbers are so distributed in each set that each block of each set has the same number value, or, in other words, the amount of the numbers on the separate sides or faces of each block amounts to the same.

In the arrangement of parts shown the number value of each block is one hundred and eighty-three, and it will be apparent that Serial No. 650,031. (No model.)

other numbers may be selected, and the numbers on the entire set need not necessarily be the numbers from 1 to 60.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a perspective view of one set of blocks, and in Fig. 3 a similar view of the opposite sides thereof, and the game is designed to be played by two parties, and in practice each player arranges his set of blocks on his side of the board, and each player moves alternately either forward or laterally and no move can be made diagonally of the squares in which the blocks are placed, and in operation of moving the blocks the object is for one player to move a block alongside a block of his opponent which bears a number which, combined with the uppermost number of his own block, will make a number which is divisible by five-such as ten, fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five, &c. \Vhenever this is done, the player making said move counts as many as the number of times that five is contained in the number thus formed. Thus if the number formed by the move is fifteen the player counts three, and if the number is twenty-five the player counts five, and each time that a player succeeds in counting he moves from the board the block of his opponent by means of which the count is'made, and if at any time a player be able to match his block with two or more of his opponents blocks at once he removes all of said blocks from the board and counts each of said" blocks separately, as above described, and at each move the block moved is turned down upon the side facing the section of the board on which it is moved.

, In practice any number of points may be selected for game that the players can agree upon, and it will thus be seen that I accomplish the object of my invent-ion by means of a device which is simple in construction and which is well adapted to produce the result for which it is intended, and it will be apparent that my invention is not limited to the size of the board, nor to the number of squares formed thereon, nor to the number of blocks in the set, nor to the sum of the numbers placed on each block, nor to the numbers placed on all the blocks of a set.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A game device comprising a board which is divided into squares and two sets of blocks or cubes, the blocks or cubes of one set differing in color from those of the other, and each block or cube of each set being provided on each of the sides or faces thereof with a number, substantially as shown and described.

Z. A game device comprising a board which is divided into squares, and two sets of blocks or cubes, the blocks or cubes of one set differing in color from those of the other, and each block or cube of each set being provided on each of the sides or faces thereof with a number, and the amount of the numbers on the separate sides or faces of each block bea ing the same, substantially as shown and described.

3. A game device comprising a board which is divided into squares, and two sets of blocks 20 or cubes the blocks or cubes of one set differing in color from those of the other, and each block or cube of each set being provided on each of its sides or faces with a number and the aggregate amount of the numbers on the sides or faces of each block being the same, and the amount of the numbers on all of the blocks of each set being the same, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the'foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 23d day of August, 1897.

ALEXANDER LANG.

Witnesses:

JOHN STEWART, JOHN BLAIN STEWART.