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a ride through london

Board Game
ca. 1855 (published)
Place of origin

Design: lithograph, 2 sheets folded into a cardboard cover; represents a long winding road from Tower Hill to Buckingham Palace.
No. of squares: 50
Squares illustrated: all
Square numbering: all
Squares titled: some
Subject of starting square: Tower Hill
Subject of ending square: Buckingham Palace

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • a ride through london (manufacturer's title)
  • a new panoramic game (manufacturer's title)
Brief description
Reeves; Geographical, English, 1855, Ride through London
Physical description
Design: lithograph, 2 sheets folded into a cardboard cover; represents a long winding road from Tower Hill to Buckingham Palace.
No. of squares: 50
Squares illustrated: all
Square numbering: all
Squares titled: some
Subject of starting square: Tower Hill
Subject of ending square: Buckingham Palace
DimensionsSize: 6 5/8 x 44in; folded into cover 7 x 6½in
Object history
shows various buildings in London. On the front is a lithographed pictorial circle containing the title and a coach hitting a gas lamp surrounded by London types.
Price 1/- plain; 1/6d coloured
Historical context
Rewards: receipt of counters from the pool
Forfeits: payment of counters into the pool, missed turns and backward movement
No. of Players: any
Equipment required: markers, counters, 6 cards marked respectively from 1 to 6 (in place of a teetotum) and 5 cards lettered respectively from A to E

Rules:
1. this game may be played by any number of persons; either by the spotted cards or a teetotum numbered from 1 to 6.
2. Each player to use a marker to denote his position on the game , also counters to pay fines, etc.
3. Each player to put 6 counters into the pool at the commencement.
4. Draw or spin for first player, the highest to begin.
5. The first player will draw a card, and place his marker on the game according to the number turned up; the others in turn will do the same.
6. At each following draw add the number turned up to the last occupied, and proceed accordingly until Buckingham Palace, No. 50 is reached.
7. Any player falling into Prison, No. 28, to lose a turn,.
8. Any player meeting with a break down, No. 42, to go back to the Hospital, No. 32, for medical treatment.
9. Any player occupying either the spaces No. 35 to 40 (a fog) to move forward only one space each turn instead of drawing, until completely extricated.
10. Whoever first reaches No. 50 takes the pool excepting 3 counters, the player arriving second takes 2 and the third, the remaining one.
The Pool having vanished, and brought down to none,
Just winds up the Game, as well as the fun.

The hazards are:
3. Pay one 8. Pay one
12. Pay one 15. Take two
21. Pay one 28. Prison
32. Hospital 47. Go to 37.
48. Go to 38 49. Go to 39
50 Buckingham Palace

Places passed along the route are:
The Tower, St. Paul's, Temple Bar, , National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Royal Exchange, General Post Office, British Museum, Horse Guards, Buckingham Palace.

Rules placement: printed sheet attached to inside front half of cover
Production
j a reeves; drawn bt c d hills
Collection
Accession number
E.1790-1954

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Record createdMarch 4, 2000
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