US836537A - Game. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD NOV. 20, 1906.

W. J. ROCHE.

GAME.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 14, 1906.

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. provements in Games, of which the following WILLIAM JANSON ROCHE. OF NEW BETHLEHEM. PENNSYLVANIA,

ASSTGNUR- OF ONE-HALF TO BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

EDWARD F. BlTTNER. OF NEW Spehification of Letters Patent.

Patented its. an, iece.

Application filed August 14,1906. Serial No. 330,541.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WrLLiAM Jansen ROCHE, a citizen-of the UnitedStates of America, residing at New Bethlehem, in the county of Clarion and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Tmis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to games, and more particularly to a card game in which several series of cards bearing different designations are employed to simulate and fix the record or score of an automobile race.

The invention consists of a number of series of cards, each card bearing certain designascribed hereinafter in connection withthe accompanying drawings, which form a part of this s ecification, and its novel features will be de ned in the appended claims. I

In the drawmgs, Figure 1 is a front elevation of four cards constituting one series. Fig. 2 is a similar view of three cards constituting a second series. Fig. 3 is a similar view of three cards forming a third series, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of two cards constitut ing a fourth series.

The first series (shown in Fig. 1) comprises a plurality of'cards, four being shown, designated by thereference- numerals 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectivelyi The card 1 bears the designation 1 mile printed thereon across its ends in reverse lines, so that the number 1 and the WON mile may be read from either end of the bard. Lpreferably also ornament the card with two illustrations of an automobile, said illustrations being reversely arranged, as shown, to correspond to the printed line's above them.

The'cards 2, 3, and 4 are similar to the card 1, except that said cards respectively bear the designations 3 miles, 5 miles, and 10 miles.

In the second group or series of cards (shown in Fig. 2) the card 5 bears the words Delay 1 hour-Collision duplicated in reverse order at the end of the card.

The card 6 has printed thereon in duplicate reversed order Delay 1 hourut of gasolene and the card 7 bears the words Delay 2 hours-Puncture in duplicate and reversed as above described.

Of the series of cards shown in Fig. 3 the card 8 bears the words Hauled in at each end thereof. The card 9 bears the words GoThe start at each end, and card 10 the word Gasolene.

The card 11 of the series shown in Fig. thas printed thereon, in duplicate, the words Within city limits" and Speed limit 5 miles per hour, and the card 12 bears the words" Country speed limit 10 miles per hour.

The cards bearing the designations as thus described are adapted to be utilized in the following manner: A complete pack will consist of one hundred cards, fifteen each of cards 1 and 9, ten each of cards 2, 3, 4, 8, and 19, five each of cards 1-1 and 12, four each of cards 5 and 6, and two of card 7 The design of the game is to have the contesting players run an automobile race of an even fifty or one hundred miles, and the milecards (shown in Fig. 1) are provided to indicate the number of miles a player progresses at a particular play. At the close of the game if a player should play any mile-card except one which wouldmake exactlyfifty or one hundred miles .he forfeits the score already made.

The three cards shown in Fig. 2 are designed to impede the progress of the players, and the number ofhours named on said cards indicates the number of miles the players score is to be set back. For in stance, if the card says Delay two hours and the country card shown in Fig. 4: is governing the play at the time the opposite side to the one playing the delay-card would be required to deduct twenty miles from any scorepreviously made, because the permissible speed in the country is reckoned as ten miles per hour. If the card In city limits happens to be governin the play, the deduction would be five mi es for each hour delayed, as five miles per hour is the limit ofspeed fixed by the game for city travel.

A W'ithin city limits card is said to govern the game until one side or the other plays the card In country. This card having no speed-limit that can be exceeded by any of the mile cards, permitsany mile-card being played until some player retards rapid progress by again playing a Within city limits card. Thus the two cards 1 1 and 12 govern the play as indicated. The delay-cards are designed to obstruct or suspend the play, and an aim of the pla or should be to interrupt his adversa'rys p y by the use of these delay-cards.

The three cards shown in Fig. 3 may be termed permission-cards, each bearing a relation to the delay-cards. If a player is delayed, for example, by his adversary playing the delay-card 6, (Out of gasolene,) he

could resume play by the layingof the card (Gasolene) and a erward the card Go. If the laying of the delay-card 5 (Collision) o structs a player, he can resume play by the playing of thecard Hauled in and afterward the Go card, and if the delay-card Puncture is played against a 1 layer he is relieved by the play of the Go.

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one or more players is to be suspended, a third series of cards containing designations permitting the score to be counted, and afourth series of cards containing characters or designations regulating the rate of scoring. s

v 2. A game comprising a series of car bearlng numerical designations indlcatlng a dlstance traveled, a second series of cards 'bearing varying desi nations each indicating that the score of a p ayer is to be suspended and for What cause, a third series of cards bearing designations indicating the right of a player to proceed to score, and a fourth series of cards containing designations which govern the rate at which the score is to be counted.

3. A game comprising a series of cards each bearing a number indicating a distance traveled by an automobile, a second series of cards bearing designations indicating that the progress of the player is to be delayed as Out of gasolene, Collision or Punc ture; a third series of cards bearing designations which indicate that a player has permission to score, as Gasolene Hauled in and Go, and-a fourth series of cards bearingdesignations prescribing the rate at which the score may be counted, as City limits and Country.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM JANSON ROCHE.

Witnesses:

J. M. MOYER, DANIEL M. GEIs'r.

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