US1300368A - Parlor game. - Google Patents

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H. FGWLER.

PARLoR: GAME. APPLICATION FILED MAYI. 1918.

"1,360,368, Patented Apr. 15,1919.

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PARLOR GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

application med may 15, 1ers. serial No. 234,767.

tion is to devise a gamein connection with aviation, and which I term The Great Air Raid Game.

My invention consists of a board dlvlded into preferably one hundred squares, ten on a side, each square being deslgnated by peculiar characteristics, such as a bombing canal, bombing ammunition dump, bombing zeppe- 'lin hangars, etc., and the game board bein otherwise arranged and the game playe by moves of men indicating an aeroplane such moves being determined by the use ot dice. f/

Figure 1, is a plan view of a board.

Fig. 2, is a detail of one of the men making the moves.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

l is my game board and 2 is one of the men, which consists of a block -2 having` a plate 22 inserted in a notch therein and a representation of an aeroplane 23 thereon. The board 1 is divided into a series of squares preferably ten on each side or one hundred squares in all. These squares are alsoy numbered starting at the lower left hand corner at 1 to 100 on a backward and forward principle as indicated from the bottom upward.

There are two main paths on the surface of the board, the lost in the mist path A starting from square 63 (not numbered) and ending with square 1, and the home path B starting with square 81 and ending with square 1 (not numbered). indicate clouds and several of them different objects against which aeroplanes are gener# ally sent.

I term my 'game The Great Air Raid The majority.

Game and it can be played by any number of players, each player having` one man or aeroplane. These aeroplanes are differently colored and are designed to be moved according to the throw of dice.

ers, each player having` one man or aeroplane. These aeroplanes are differently colored and are designed to be moved according to the throw of dice.

The object of the game is to get as many points as possible.

The rules are as follows:

The first player to reach or pass square 54 gets 10 points or the player which first lands on a square representing a hangar battery or wireless station counts 10 points. The other players landing on 54 or passing there do not count any.

The first one to reach square 100 counts 40 points, the others after that counting 20.

All layers have to land on No. 100 by exact t row of the dice.

When a player lands on No. 7 on which it says Englne msring vreturn home, the player must return to No. 1 by exact throws of the dice before he can start again.

When a player lands on No. 31 he is supposed to have been hit by an anti-aircraft gun shell and is either out of the game or may start again from No. 1.

When a player lands on No. 63 he is sup- Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

posed to have got lost in the clouds and.l

must follow the path or A trail by throwing' the dice until he gets home. But in the count up he may count whatever points he has 0btained before getting 10st. If, however, he lands in the same square with another player who is not lost he may start again from whatever number he is on.

When a player reaches 100 he still has to go home down the B trail to No. l and he has to get to No. 1 by exact throw.

If he lands on the No. 6 of the Btrail he is supposed to have run out of gasolene and must stay there and is out of the game.

If however a player lands on No. 5 of the B trail the one on No. 6 may start again. The fellow on No. 5 is supposed to have given him enough gas to get home with.

The winner is the one who has the most planes, these being moved from one square points among those Who succeeded in getting to another according to the rules of the game back to No. as set forth, the moves being governed by What I claim as my invention is throw of dice. 5 An aviation parlor game comprisin a board divided into squares, having pecu iar HAROLD FOWLER. characteristics common to aviation, the board having two main paths on its surface, the Witnesses: 10st in the mist path and the home path and GEORGE EDWARD LEE,

10 movable parts designed to represent aero- ARTHUR MGDONAIGH.

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