US977010A - Card game. - Google Patents

Description

N. M. HOPKINS.

GARD GAME.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1910.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910,

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NEVIL MONROE HOPKINS, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CARD GAME.

To all whom it may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, NEVIL MONROE HOP- KINS, a citizen vof the United States, residing at iVashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card Games, of which the following is a specification.

This game is played with a set of cards of two different colors. @n cach card is printed the name of some personal qualification or characteristic, its speciiication or definition, and a numeral or numerals indicating the iiXed or graded value to be allotted to such qualification. Accompanying the set of cards is a scoring device consisting of a triangular iigure, having at its sides inclined scales of different colors, corresponding to those of the cards, and a vertical central scale.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figures 1 and 2 are face views of two cards ot' the set; Fig. 3 is a face view of the scoring diagram; and Fig. t is a face view of two scoring disks.

The card shown in Fig. 1 bears the title State reputation, and its specification or definition, to wit, Must have your name well known throughout the State as a result of meritorious activity. This card would be colored yellow and bears a numeral 5, indicating the assumed value of State reputation, as defined.

The card shown in Fig. 2 bears the title Vell reach7 and thespeciication, One conversant with standard and modern literature and able to talk about it with intelligence and without pedantry. This card would be colored green and bears the numerals 1-5, indicating the graded value assignable to the qualification.

The entire set or pack of cards consists of equal numbers of yellow and green cards. The specilications are original definitions written for this game by competent authorities, and the name and occupation or attainments of each authority are printed on the card beneath the deiinition furnished by him.

The scoring device shown in Fig. 3 is a figure in the general form of an isosceles triangle, with a horizontal base, the sides of the triangle being stepped and the tops of the steps being joined by horizontal lines, to suggest a pyramid to be climbed by the aspirant Jfor honors in the game. At each side of the diagram or figure is an inolined scale, here numbered from O to 145.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune 25, 1910.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

Serial No. 568,915.

The lefthand scale is marked Yellow and the righthand scale Green. At the center of the figure and bisecting the triangle is a vertical scale, here shown as a ladder, bearing the numerals O to 100.

Yellow and green disks, shown in Fig. 1, are also provided, bearing numerals corresponding to those on the cards.

The qualiiication of each player in the subject named on each card is determined in accordance with the speciiication printed thereon, and the player is then given a counter or disk bearing a numeral with the value assigned thereto. The right of the player to score may be determined either by himself or by the other players, as agreed, and the value assigned to the player in the subjects named on the graded cards depends on. the extent of his attainments therein. The award of scores or counters for certain test cards may be conditioned on the actual demonstration by the player of his possession of the several qualifications named thereon, for example he may be required to prove that he is able to play the piano or to read a'foreign language, judgment being passed on his proficiency by the other players.

In playing the game, each participant successively reads, or has read to him by a dealer, the speciiications either on the entire set of cards, or on as many cards as have been taken for use in the game. If he is adjudged qualified in the subject ot' any particular card, he is awarded a counter bearing the number printed on that card to denote the value of such subject, or, in case of a graded-value card, is awarded a counter with a numeral corresponding to the extentof his qualification in its subject.

Vhen the set of cards has been played through and each player has received yellow and green counters for all of the values awarded to him, the score of each player is ascertained by adding the numbers on his yellow counters and noting or marking the total on the yellow scale of the scoring diagram; then adding the numbers on his green counters and noting or marking their total on the green scale; and nally joining the two noted points on the yellow and green scales by a cord or straight-edge, whereupon the inal score is read on the vertical central scale, at the point intersected by the cord or straight-edge, in parts per hundred or percentage.

Y The game may be played as solitaire by one person, or by any number of persons.

I claim:

l. A card game, comprising a set of cards,

qualification andthe speciiication and a numeral indicating the value thereof.

3. A card game, comprising a set of cards yof two different colors, each card having printed thereon the name of some personal. qualification and they specification thereof, some vcards beingY numbered with a fixed value and the other cards numbered with graded Values.

4. In combination wi-tha set of cards, each card having printed thereon the name of i two different colors, each card havin printedy thereon the name of some persona qualiication and the specification thereof, some cards being numbered with a fixed value and other cards being numbered with raded values, a scoring device consisting o a triangular figure having inclined side scales of diii'erent colors, correspondino` to those of the cards, and a vertical centraI scale.

In testimony whereof, I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NEVIL MONROE HOPKINS.

Witnesses EUGENE A. BYRNEs, O. W. FOWLER.

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