A score is kept of the games won by each player, and a third score is kept of the games played in which neither player wins.
This game may be played at the seashore, on the playground, or wherever the diagram may be traced on the earth.
For school use it is an interesting diversion for pupils who assemble early before a session opens, or who remain in over a rainy noontime.
This is a device for mental arithmetic. It is one of which children are very fond. As the play element may enter very largely into the fanciful suggestions used by the teacher, it seems in place in a book of games.
The teacher states her problem in a manner similar to the following:--
"There was a tree with fifty branches. A squirrel started on the first branch, jumped up three branches [to the fourth], came halfway down [to the second], went three times as high [sixth branch], fell halfway down [third branch], saw a dog, and ran to the top of the tree; fell to the ground and started over again; went up eight branches, jumped past three branches," etc., finishing up with, "How many branches from the top was he?"
This game has been found intensely interesting for children through the upper grades of the elementary schools.
Each player is provided with a bright new penny (of design prior to 1909), a piece of paper, and a pencil. On the paper are written beforehand, or to dictation, the following requirements, of course without the answers. The player wins who has the largest number of correct answers.
The name of a song.--America. A privilege.--Liberty. A part of Indian corn.--Ear. A part of a hill.--Brow. Something denoting self.--Eye (I). Part of a door.--Lock (of hair). A weapon of war.--Arrow. An act of protection.--Shield. A gallant.--Beau (bow). A punishment.--Stripes. Part of a plant.--Leaf. A piece of jewelry.--Ring. A nut.--Acorn. A musical term.--Bar. An occupation.--Milling. A foreign fruit.--Date. Trimming for a hat.--Feather. What ships sail on.--Sea (C). A perfume.--Scent (cent). A religious edifice.--Temple. A messenger.--One sent (cent). A method of voting.--Ayes and Noes (eyes and nose). A Chinese beverage.--Tea (T). A gaudy flower.--Tulips (two lips). Comfort.--Ease (E. E.). A small animal.--Hare (hair). A term of marriage.--United state. An ancient honor.--Wreath. One of the first families.--Indian.