A GAME YOU CAN MAKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

A GAME YOU CAN MAKE.

(Scut in by Jessie MolUlc. Astley Avenue, New Lyuu.) It is sometimes hard to find something new and interesting to do in. the evenings, isn't it? One evening you might make a game for yourself, one that you will be able to play many times with your friends. You need a big sheet of white cardboard or paper —cardboard for preference, because it won't get crumpled, but will keep nice and flat. This sheet you must mark off into gin squares. Make these plain by inking them in, and the squares should be painted in different colours. Of course, you'll have to repeat the colours, but that all adds to the attraction of. the

game. Xoiv to play you need some counters —you can borrow theui from your hula or tiddley winks set. If this is not possible, make some counters from discs of cardboard, shaping them by a half* penny, and colouring them to match the squares on the board. To play the game you must place the board at one end of the table and stand at the other. Then you throw the discs, trying to get them on to their corresponding colours. Each player throws in turn. To score, the player who gets a counter right in a corresponding colour counts two. To get it partly on a square counts one, and the player who scores the greater number wins the game. Once you start this game I'm sure you'll enjoy it so much that you won't want to leave it to go to bed when mother calls you.