US739678A - Instructive game. - Google Patents

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FATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

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PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

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INSTRUUTIVE GAME. APPLICATION FILED HA3. 9, 1903.

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ELIZABETH HoYT IVES, or MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

INSTRUCTIVE GAM E.

SPECIFICATION amon part of Letters Patent N... 739,678, dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed March 9, 1903.

full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 are illustrations of objects representing words or phrases which are parts of titles of literary works. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are portraits of authors; and Figs. 8 and 9 are pictures similar to those shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, but set together so as to compose a complete title of a literary work.

My invention relates to utensils for playing instructive games; and it. consists in devising and arranging cards bearing pictorial representations of Words or phrases composing titles of literary works, combining them into series and in combining therewith portraits of the authors of works, the titles whereof are represented, and finally in the arrange-. ment of games to be played by means of such cards.

The figures of the drawings are front views of cards made according to my invention.

Fig. 1 of the drawings shows a card hearing the conventional representation of a tramp. Fig. 2 illustrates a heap of stones. Fig. 3 shows an ax with the letter O entwined with the handle of the ax. Fig. 4 shows the letter A expanded laterally. Fig. 5 is the portrait of Bulwer-Lytton Fig. 6, that of -Mark Twain; Fig. 7, that of Stevenson; and

Figs. 8 and 9 show two cards joined together,

showing, respectively, one a bee with the letter E and the other a pair of human hands tied together by a rope.

By joining together Figs. Land 4 in their successive order, the pictorial representation of the words A tramp abroad is obtained,

which is the title of Mark Twains popular book. The same,-by joining Figs. 3 and 2, the pictorial representation of the word Caxstones (Caxtons) is obtained, which is the title of Bulwer-Lyttons work. Figs. 8 and 9 joined together, as shown in the drawings,

represent the title of Stevensons novel Ebb- Tide. The cards are of course also capable Serial No. 146,924. (No man.)

of being combined differently and are in this respect like the letters of an alphabet, except that'they are devised with the object in view to represent only such syllables, words, or phrases of which the titles of meritorious literary works are composed.

, The cards can be used without the portraits of the authors. The cards bearing the portraits of the authors have the object to indicate to some extent what literary works are represented by the cards of a set. They also serve in the game of solving problems to compose from the cards one or more titles of works written by a designated author or of the problem to select from them the author who has written a given'work. The cards with the portraits of authors serve also in the game, as I shall explain farther on, to make up the sets of works by exchanging the cards among the players.

The number of the cards and the number of the sets are limited. I The cards may be provided with letters or numbers-as, for instance, shown on Figs. 1,

designating of the cards of one group facilitates the separating of the cards into sets for individual instruction and of course simplifies the problem of composing the titles of the works written by the particular author. The cards may also be provided with the consecutive numbers or indications (see Figs. 1 and 4) indicating the manner ofcombining them into titles of works. When in such arrangement, the sets are in the nature of rebuses, the solution of which is the rudimental application of the products of my invention. After the pupils haveacquired the knowledge of the-titles of the works represented in the cards they may be required tocompose from the cards the titles of the works of a given author or to select from the cards bearing the portrait of authors the author of the work represented by-a set of title-cards given to the pupil. Eben again a game can be played by dealing out indiscriminately to each participant an equal number of cards and re quiring them to complete the titles or sets of titles from the remaining stock of cards. Many other systems of instructive games may be practiced by means of the cards, all of which, however, require instruction in literature and all of which are tending to improve the knowledge of the participant of the works of various authors and stimulate the study of literature and reading of meritorious books.

I claim as my invention 1. A game device consisting of cards bearing rebuses representing syllables, words or phrases, forming component parts of titles of literary works.

2. A game-device consisting of cards bearing rebuses representing syllables, words or phrases forming component parts of titles of literary works, and cards bearing portraits of authors of the works, the titles whereof are represented in the other cards.

-3. A game device consisting of sets of cards, each set comprising cards bearing rebuses representing component syllables, words or phrases o the title of a literary work.

4. Angame device consisting of sets of cards, each set comprising cards bearing rebuses representing component syllables, words or phrases of the title of a literary work, and a card bearing the portrait of the author of the works, the titles whereof are represented in the other cards of the set.

ELIZABETH 'HOYT IVES. Witnesses:

HELEN HOWE, SARA M. J OHNSON.

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