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' Patented May 4, 1886.

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No. 341,344. Patnted May 4, 1886.

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' GAME APPARATUS.

No. 341,344. Patented May 4, 1886.

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LEE NANCE, OF IVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GAM E APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,344, dated May 4,1886

Application filed July 23, 1885. Serial No. 172,443.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEE NANCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following isa specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a game apparatus, and has for its object to provide an apparatus whereby an instructive and amusing game called School may be played by any number of persons; and it consists in the combination of parts, hereinafter described and In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a front view of my apparatus; Fig. 2, a like view with the front of on the line X X, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a view we planatory of the game, and Fig. 5 the one used in playing the game.

In the drawings, A represents a hollow square or cubical block having windows painted thereomand an arched entrance-way,C,cut therein, and a French roof so as to represent a house; but this is merely a fanciful arrangement, as any other design, if cubical and hollowed out, would answer the purpose equally well. This cube is hollowed out, so as to receive snugly sixty fonr (64L) globes, B. Each of these globes has engraved, impressed, painted, or printed thereon one or more numerals,words,punctuationqnarkstheletters of the alphabet, and the character Che. These are all of equal size and weight, and perfectly round and smooth, and when in position occupy the entire space within the part A in layers of sixteen (16) each. The entrance way or opening C is just large enough to show the whole sides of two globes and part only of two more. The part A is made of some hard substance-such as ivory,celluloid, bonsilatc, or hard wood, and the globes are made of a like material. As before mentioned, there are sixty-four (61L) globes in all, seven teen (17) of which have painted, printed, engraved, or stamped thereon the following words representing some of the different trades and callings of mankind Agriculture, lvlanufacturing, Commerce, Mining, Forestry, Stock Raising, Bird (No model.)

Raising, Transportation, Art, Profession, Horticulture, Dairying, Politics, Vagrancy, and Crime. On ten (10) of them are the Arabic numerals,on one (1) the character&c. This latter being divided, the & being on one side of the globe,while the c is on the other, so that it will repre sent either & or &c., just as the player needs either one or the other. On another four ofthe pnnctationmarksviz. ,the period, the dash, interrogation, and exclamation marks-are printed, painted, or engraved, one on each side of the globe. On another the brace, caret, and ellipses are printed on the sides. O11 five the comma, colon, semicolon, apostrophe, and hyphen are printed, one on each globe. The parentheses,quotation-marks, and bracket are printed on four more,one-lialf of each mark being printed on two sides of the globe. A short piece of ivory,celluloid, hard wood, or other suitable material, Fig. 5, is provided for the purpose of striking the globes which show in the entrance-way C, it being used after the manner of a billiardcue, excepting that it is not guided by the left hand, as is a billiard-cue.

Explanation of the game-The terms used in thegameare as follows: Expression, Call, Answer, Collect, and thepoints are power-words, corresponding letters, punctuationmarks and numerals, playcut, and game. I11 Fig. 4 I have shown a slate, but I may use paper or any othersuitable material, with the result of a completed game in the game of Politics, in which the player, John Doe, has succeeded in getting the position ofSheriff of Lincolnshire, State of Texarkana. In the upper left hand corner of the slate the word Politics is written. Immediately beneath this word the term Expression iswritten. To the right of and opposite to the term EX- pression is written the players name, the posit-ion played for, and the section of the country where the position is located. These words form the Expression. At about the center of the upper part of-the slate the words School Record of are written. Beneath this phrase the name of the player should be written. To the right of and below the phrase School Record of the word Answers is written. A line is drawn beneath this word and the term or word Collect is written thereunder. Suppose John Doc to be one of the players (of course his opponent will have a slate with the same word, 810., on it to keep his game on) and thepositiou played for be the Sheriff of Lincolnshire, State of Texarkana. In the first call made by the player he obtains the letters J O H N, and D. It will be noticed that the first four letters form the word or name John, and that D is the first letter in his surname; therefore he writes the five letters under the word Answers and cancels them by drawing a line across them. In the next call he does not obtain any letter or mark that he needs; therefore he places everything he does obtain beneath the term Collect, in this instance theletters B \V, the numeral two,(2,) and word Art. In the next callhc obtains theletters O E S H andacomma. These all being needed, are written beneath the term Answers and canceled. In the next call he obtains E R I F, and in the next F O, and the next (F77 H1177 I77 iN); 10); 60 77 these being needed, are placed beneath the term Answers. In thenextcall he obtains J C M P. None of these being needed, are written beneath the term Collect. In the next call he obtains L N S H I R E andacomma.

These being needed, are written under Answers and canceled. In the next call he obtains the numerals 5 7 '9 and the letter D. In the next call he obtains S A, andinthenext T E O F, and in the next T E X A R K. All these being needed are written under Answers and cancelled. In the next four'calls he does not obtain any needed letters or words, so he places what he does obtain beneath Collect. In the next call he obtains A N andin the next A and a period, completing the expression. Now, an aecount is taken of the letters, &c., under the term Collect. First, all the words which can be formed from the letters under Collect are ascertained and written under the line immediately beneath the Expression. In this instance the player has been able to make the words Fib, Mock, Drew, and Sat. These count as Power-words, because they have as many letters as the surname of the player who obtains them; but if the surname contained more than one syllable the player must obtain a word containing a like number of syllables without regard to the number of letters in the obtained word. He has also the words Sport and Art under the head of Collect. These count as Power words, for the reason assigned above in the case of the made or formed words. Upon looking over the Collect the player will find that he has some letters remaining after having formed all the words possible. These are J P. It will then be noticed that the letter J corresponds to the first letter in the word John in the Expression, and that the letter 1? corresponds to the first letter in Politics. Therefore the player will cancel the two letters by a double stroke of the pen or pencil used; or if the remaining letters correspond to the firstletter in any of the words in the Expression orin the title of the game played they may be treated in the same manner. The numerals found under Collect are placed beneath a line drawn under the last row of the Collect in the order in which they are e'alled-that is, the first numeral called, 2, is placed to the right-hand side, and the one next called, 5, is placed to the left of the 2, and so on until all the numerals are down, and they are read in conformity with the rules of numeration. The player having the most points wins the game. In the game illustrated John Doe has six Powerwvords, sixty canceled letters, and three punctuation-marlcs under Answers and Collect, (the doubly-canceled letters only being counted once among the sixty,) and his numerals amount to the sum of one billion eighty-four million three hundred and sixty-nine thousand and seven hundred and fifty-two units. Now, it the opposing player has completed his Expression, and has as many Power-words, canceled letters, and punctuation marks, but his numerals do not amount to as great a sum, he loses the game. Each player is entitled to an equal number of calls as, for instance, if one player completes his Expres sion upon the thirtieth call and the other player has had only twenty-nine calls he is entitled to another. Each player is required to replace the globes obtained by his opponent.

It is not necessary to play for any particular Expression denoting aposition in life, as any one or more letters, punctuationmarks, numerals, characters, or words on the globes may be played for. In such case they are not replaced in the part A after each call, as in the case where a complete sentence has to be built therefrom; but are retained until the game is completed by one of the players succeeding in getting the object played for.

I do not claim anything shown or described in the patent to Twamly, No. 143,599, October 14, 1873.

Having thus described my inveutiou,what

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a game apparatus, ahollow cubical part, A, having a single opening or entrance-way, C, in combination with the globes B, bearing the characters described, and means for striking the globes to displace them, substantially as set forth.

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

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J. M. STEWART, GEO. lWI. FINcKEL.

LEE NANCE.

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