Garenne [game] : A new game of skill : equally amusing to young and old.

Accession number: 
PML 88635
Published: 
[England : s.n., 1840-1850]
Description: 
1 game : ill. (engraving) ; 14.5 x 24 cm (box)
Credit: 
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes: 

Title from sheet of rules.
Type face on the rules: Caslon, Rounded Ornamented, ca. 1844.
Table game comprising four Venetian? glass marbles in a green silk pouch, three wooden bridges numbered 1-6, a wooden spring cue, and a sheet of rules, housed in a wooden box with sliding lid.
Rules: "Directions for playing. Place the Bridge on a Table, with the numbered side to face the Player. Each Player in turn to make a score of 21, or any number agreed on. Drive the Balls under the Arches, using the Spring Cue, as shown above. Add the numbers together, of those Arches which contain Balls, and the Player who obtains the number agreed on, with the least number of Balls played, is the winner. All Balls which lie half within the entrance of the Arches when all the Balls have been played, to count as though they were entirely within. If a Ball enter an Arch and runs over the Back, it is to count for that Arch."
A game of skill requires mainly mental or physical skill, instead of chance. Similar to a game of Bagatelle.

Binding: 
Publisher's wooden box with green paper title label stamped in black, pasted on sliding lid.
Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Classification: 
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