US673080A - Parlor game. - Google Patents

Description

- PARLOR GAME.

lApplication filed Oct. 12, 1899.,-

(no Model.)

Patented Apr. 30, 190|.

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CHARLES S. HILL, OF HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS.

PARLOR GAME.

SPECIFICATION zforming part of Letters Patent N o. 673,080, dated April 30, 1901.

Application filed October l2, 1899. Serial No. 733,408. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t nfl/ty concern/f Be it known that I, CHARLES SoU'rHwosTH HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Highland Park, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Parlor Games, of which the following is a specification.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of my novel game board or sheet. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one form of marker, to be hereinafter more particularly described, that may be employed in connection with the other parts of my novel device.

My invention relates to socalled parlor games, and it particularly relates to what may be called miniature golf, in the playing of which the success of the player' is determined by means of chance; and to that end it consists in the features of construction and combination hereinafter to be more particularly described, and set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

The game o'f golf being so generally played, I will therefore assume for the purpose of briefly describing myinvention that golf and golf terms are commonlyunderstood.v

In the game of my invention I prefer to use a printed or other miniature representation of a golf course, of any suitable size, having as many links or holes, with their respective teeinggrounds and puttinggrounds, and as many bunkers or other hazards as desired. At intervals upon thisillustrated course numbersor other means 'are employed to designate the points at which the player7 following the rule of play, may have occasion to place his marker to indicate his progress in the game, the direction and length of movement (if any) being determined by any suitable means of chance, as by lthe throwingof dice,spinningasuitable teetotum, drawing a playing-card or slip of paper, &c., all of said devices or whichever is used being marked to correspond with the above described markings on the course.

In the preferred form of my device I em` ploy a pictured nine-hole course, each of the links being marked with two columns of numerals, (which may be any 0f the first siX,) suitable spaces beingleft between the columns and the figures forming the same.

Referring to the drawings, A is a teeingground; B,marked fai r-green C, a bunker; D, a putting-ground; E, a hole; F, a marker; G H, hazards; the numerals l 2 3 4 5 6, points to which the player may have occasion to move said marker to indicate his progress in the game. Assuming the marker to be at Aand the player having cast a dice, the six-spot remaining uppermost, the player moves-that is to say, his marker is moved-to the numeral 6 nearest the teeing-ground-that is, to a. Assuming the dice to be again thrown and the two-spot turned up, the marker is then moved tothe 2 nearest above-that is to say, to cl/ and so on. Should the cast of the dice carry the players marker into the` bunkerCor hazards G H,any suitable penalty may be attached therefor-as, for instance, a

return be necessitated to any given point, as c, or the player lose the distance and play the next or one more. Should the cast of the dice carry the marker to the green D, two dice may then be employed, the sum of the numbersthrcwn indicating that the player has holed out or has failed to do so, according to the position of his marker upon the green and the number required to be thrown i at that point to send the ball (marker) into the hole.

As seen from the foregoing description, in moving the marker forward it may be necessary to also move it to the right or left of the course, Where two or more columns of figures are employed, thus representing slicing or pulling, as the case may be, While should there be no number on the course above the position of the marker corresponding with the number cast the cast may be said to represent a miss.

It is obvious that the game may be made to closely approximate golf; but it will always diler therefrom in that golf is played by striking a ball with a club held in the hands of the player, and the success of the player depends upon the judgment shown by him in the selection of the proper club for the lie, in the direction to be given the ball and the accurate estimate of the distance to be covered, and in the degree of muscular skill exercised in addressing and in hitting the ball, and it further depends u'pon the conditions of the IOO weather and the grounds, the stance and swing, and the health of the player, While in the game of my invention the success of the player is determined by and entirely dependent upon chance.

It is obvious that a teetotnm, dice, cards, slips of paper, or other suitable marked or colored means of chance, or several of them, may be separately or simultaneously employed; that any reasonable number of players may play upon each link or upon differentV links at the same time; that the possible moves on each link may be of any number and be indicated by any suitable means corresponding With the marked or colored means of chance employed and be indicated upon the course in any desired number of columns or in any suitable manner; that any number of the markings or colors forming a part of the means of chance may be omitted from any link or that they may all be employed; that when numerals are employed they may be as many and of any value desired; that the course may consist of one or more links of any suitable dimensions; that When two or more columns of numerals or other positionindicating means are employed the course need not be pictured, but the various positions be indicated on any suitable surface; that any small movable object may be used in place of the marker F; that lines or other additional means may be employed to assist the player in readily locating the various positions on the course or that said means may be (and when a pictured course is employed they preferably are) omitted; that the hazards maybe as many and of any character desired; that a play into any of the hazards may occasion any suitable penalty therefor, and that the rules employed to govern the game and the length and direction of movements made by the player may be greatly varied Without departing from the principle of the invention.

I prefer to use a marker of novel construction consisting of a circular or other suitablyshaped piece of glass, mica, or other transparent material f, encompassed by a metal or othersuitable rim or frame f'. The object of said construction is to render the marker transparent, so that the underlying surface and the numerals or other marks covered by said marker will be visible therethrough, the metal or other rim acting as a guard for the transparent portion of the device and serving to slightly elevate said transparent portion above the underlying surface.

To avoid repetition of terms, it will be understood that the words player, marker, and indicator are synonymous wherever the same or any of them are employed herein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secu re by Letters Patent, is-

l. A parlor game of golf comprising a board or sheet having thereon a teeing-ground, a hole, a fair-green, and separate series of indicating-marks representing pulling or slicing, substantially as described.

2. A parlor game of golf comprising a board or sheet having thereon a 'seeing-ground, a hole, a fair-green, and position -indicating means representing pulling and slicing, substantially as described.

3. A parlor golf game comprising a board or sheet having thereon a teeing-ground, a fair-green, and a hole, said fair-green having indicated thereon separate series of positioning-marks, substantially as described.

4. A parlor golf game comprising a board or sheet having indicated thereon a teeingground, a fair-green and a hole, said fair-green having two longitudinally-arranged separate series of positioning-marks, substantially as described.

5. A parlor golf game comprising a board or sheet having thereon a teeing-ground, a fair-green and a hole said fair-green having two longitudinally-arranged separate series of position-indicating marks, substantially as described.

6. A parlor game comprising a board or sheet having thereon a teeing-ground, a fairgreen, and a hole said fair-green having parallel series of positioning-marks, the corresponding marks of the series being dierent, substantially as described.

CHARLES S. HILL.

Witnesses:

M. A. KENNEDY, JOHN W. HILL.

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