A New International Game

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VI, 9 August 1902, Page 377

A New International Game

In a certain company of grown up and well educated people not long ago a prize was offered to anyone who could give a brief description, or even name the colours, of fifteen different national flags. Every member of the company tried to do it and everyone failed. Now, there is no particular advantage, in a practical way, in being familiar with the flags of the nations, but there is satisfaction in knowing things, especially if they are things that the average person does not know. Is there a boy or a girl among our readers, for example, that would not be glad to be able to identify every national flag on sight? This pretty recess or home game will help you to acquire this knowledge. Like most of the instructive gauies it requires some preparation. In all the large dictionaries and in many encyclopaedias and gazetteers may be found all the flags of the nations, printed in colours, and they are usually printed on a page all together.

Let someone who has a box of water colours paint the flags on a sheet of white cardboard, putting a number under each flag instead of the name of its country. Then as many sheets of paper should be prepared as there are persons to take part in the game, with numbers down the left hand margin of each sheet. When you are ready to play the game give a sheet of paper to each

player, tack the cardboard up in plain view, and allow, say, half an hour’s time, for the players to write opposite to the numbers the names of the nations that belong there. No. 1. for example, will be Great Britain; No. 2, the United States; No. 3. Eranee; No. 4, Russia; No. 5. Italy; and so on.

W’hen the time limit has expired let the leader of the game collect the

papers and check them off by a key which he or she has for that purpose, and the player that has the most correct numbers wins the game. If the game is played at home a prize may be offered—say. a small Union Jack flag made of silk.

It is not necessary that the flags should be drawn on the cardboard in a really artistic way', though the more neatly it be done the better.