US1714546A - Game - Google Patents

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6. E. CALDON ET AL 1 May 28, 1929.

GAME

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Application filed May 1,

This invention relates to a game called White House and may be played by or four players. The object ofthe. game is to send one of a plurality of playing pieces or counters representing presidential nominees to a space on a board representing the White House.

F or a complete disclosure of the inventlon, reference is had to the description thereof which follows and to the drawing illustrating an embodiment thereof, of which,-

F igurel represents a game board embodying the invention. v V

, Figure 2 is an elevation of a counter representing a presidential nominee.

Figure 3 is an elevation of a counter representing a convention'delegate.

Referring to the drawing in detail, 10 represents a game boardfpreferably of suitable stiff material on which is indicated a map 11 of the United States, each of the States being shown in outline. I Spaces 14: arealso provided to represent the homes of convention delegates, these spaces being preferably fortyeight in number, divided by way of illns tration into four groups, each of which may represent a separate political party, or if preferred, two of the groups may be used together for one party, the other two groups being used to represent a second party. A pan of spaces 15 represent respectively the Republican and Democratic convention halls. .A pair of spaces 16 represent the homes of'the presidential nominees; The White House is indicated by a space 17, this space as shown containing a pictorial representation of the White House. If desired,ithe spaces 15 may also contain pictures representing convention marked a chance device which includes a spinning pointer 18. The pointer is-mounted to spin on an axis at 19 and to indicate, when it stops spinning, any one of a number of sectors 20 arranged in a ring about the axis 19. Forty-eight sectors 20 are provided, one for each State, each sector being marked with the name of its State. Also in the same ring a number of sectors 21 may be provided, these, sectors being marked Go to convention hall or words of similar import. Within the ring containing the sectors 20 and 21 we provide a number of inner sectors 22, 23. These may be of any desired number and angular size. As shown, each of these sectors is relatively narrow and there are in all four of them'so that they occupy a relatively small proportion 1922. Serial 110,274,219.

represent convention delegates. These may conveniently be forty-eight innumben one foreach State in theUnion. The counters 24 are preferably divided into four groups of equal numberscorresponding to the groups of home'spaces 14 indicated'on the board. These groups of counters may be distinguished by difli'erent colors or difterentshapes. In ad- Y dition to the counters 24 representing convent1on delegates, a plurality of larger counters 25, one for each politicaljparty, maybe provided torepresent the presidential nominees.

7 The game. may beplayed bytwo, or by four players. If by two players, each player controls half of thedelegate counters, that is, two groups of these counters. The counters controlled by one player may be called as Y publican delegates, the countcrs controlled'by the other player being called Democratic delegates. Ifthe game is played by four players,"

each player controls a single group of delegates. The players in turn spin the arrow 18.

If the arrow points to a State, the player moves one of his delegate counters to the State indicated by the arrow. If this State is already occupied by a delegate of the oppositeparty, this delegate is returned to'his home.

If the pointer 18 stops on a Go to convention hall sector, the player may move one of his delegate counters from any State to the convention hall, or if he hasno counter on a State, he may move one of h s counters from lts home space'to the convention hall. When all of the counters of either of the parties have been moved to their convention hall, the player controlling that party spins for one of the inner sectors 22. After the pointer has rested on one of these'sectors 22, theplayer in succeeding turns spins for one of the sectors 23..

When the pointer falls on one of the sectors 23, the player moves his presi-dentialnominee I counter 25 from its home space to the White I House, andthus wins the game.

Having thus described certain embodl ments of this inventlon, 1t should be evident to those skilled in the art that various changes and modlfications might be made therein without departing from its spirit or scope as f definedby the appended claims. We claim 1. 7 Game apparatus comprising a board I no counters.

having a map of. the United States thereon, said board also having spaces indicated thereon representing homes of equal numbers of delegates of different political-parties, a plurahty of spaces representing respectively the different party convention halls, spaces rep-- resenting respectively the homes of the presidential nominees, and aspacerepresenting the White House, counters torepresent presidentialcandidate's, a number of other counters torepresent convention delegates, and a chance device for indicating the moves ofsaid 2 Game apparatus comprising. a game board having thereon a map of the United States, spaces to'represent homes of convention'delegates, spaces to represent convention halls of diiferent political parties and a picture of. the White House, counters to represent respectively equal numbers'of delegatescof the different parties, and a chance device forindicating the movements of said counters.

, 3L A game board having thereon a map of the United States',spaces representinghomes of convention delegates, a pair of spaces representing conventionhalls, a'pair of spaces representing homes of presidentialnominees, a space representing the'White House, and

a ring having certain sectors marked With.

thenames of States andvother sectors marked Convention hall, and a rotatable pointer mounted to spin With its axis through the center of said ringjand to indicate any oneof said sectors;

7 4. Game apparatus comprising counters representing delegates, other counters representing presidential nominees, a board hav- 1 ing'indicated thereon a map ofthe United States, spaces representing homes ofconvention delegates, spaces representing convention halls, spaces representing homes of presidential nominees, and a space representing the Vvhite House, and a chance device comprising a pointer mounted to spin on said board, i

a distinguishing color, a pair oi counters represent-ingpresidential nominees, a boardhaving indicated thereon. a map' of the United States, i spaces representing a home for each of said counters, a pair of spaces representing convention halls, a space representing the White House, and a chance idevicef-toindicate movements of counters. v

In testimony whereof We have ai'lixed our signatures. y

EDGAR J. MARTEL,

GUY E. CALDONQ

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