. Game of 1791 entitled Wallis's new geographical game exhibiting a tour through England & Wales; 'Two or three persons may amuse themselves with this agreeable pastime, and if a double set of counters or pyramids are purchased, six may play at it. The totum must be marked 1 to 8 on its several faces, with pen and ink. The pyramids are supposed to be the travellers, who make the tour; each pyramid having 4 counters of the same color belonging to it, which are called markers or servants; when you find these are complete you may begin the game agreeably to the following rules. 1. Each player mus
. Game of 1791 entitled Wallis's new geographical game exhibiting a tour through England & Wales; 'Two or three persons may amuse themselves with this agreeable pastime, and if a double set of counters or pyramids are purchased, six may play at it. The totum must be marked 1 to 8 on its several faces, with pen and ink. The pyramids are supposed to be the travellers, who make the tour; each pyramid having 4 counters of the same color belonging to it, which are called markers or servants; when you find these are complete you may begin the game agreeably to the following rules. 1. Each player must hold a pyramid or traveller, and 4 counters of the same color. 2. In order to know who begins the game, each player must spin the totum, and the highest number takes the lead, then the next highest, &c. 3. The first player then spins, and if he turn up no. 4, he is to place his pyramid on Dover, and stay there till it is his turn to spin again. 4. If in the second spinning he turn up no. 3, he is to add that to 4, his former number, and place his pyramid on no. 7 (Lewes); and in this manner the game must be continued till the traveller reaches no. 117, which is London, when he wins the game. 5. If the last spin does not exactly make the no. 117, but goes beyond it, he must then go back as many numbers as he exceeds it, and try his fortune again, 'till one of the players spin the lucky number. 6. When a player is obliged to wait one or more turns, he must deposit as many counters as he is directed to wait turns (which never exceeds 4); and when it is his turn to spin again, instead of spinning, he must take up a counter; and so on till they are all taken up'. All 117 towns are described. The first 25 descriptions are transcribed above. Folded on linen in slip case. Slip case of Johnson copy is dated March 8th 1802; Wallis's tour through England and Wales, a new geographical pastime; Rochester - a city of great antiquity, situate on the river Medway, over which is a noble bridg
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