Board game

Details

Descriptive Terms

board games (game sets)
cardboard
Game, Board

Inscription

OVER THE / FENCE / PARKER BROTHERS / INCORPORATED / SALEM, MASS., NEW YORK / & LONDON (printed)
RULES FOR PLAYING THE GAME OF / OVER THE FENCE / PARKER BROS., Inc., Salem, Mass., New York and London / FOR TWO, THREE OR FOUR PLAYERS / Place the Fence in position in the slotted blocks. / 1. Each player is provided with a set of counters, consisting of one large and / four small counters of the same color. / 2. The idea of the game is by pressing the small counters with the large / one to make them jump the fence onto the numbered field beyond. / 3. Play in turn from the Felt starting square, each player snapping one / counter at a time. / 4. All counters landing of the Felt side of the Fence or out of the Box, are out / of the game, only those being counted that land faily in the Field beyond / the Fence. / 5. After all have played the score is taken the player making the highest / count WINS THE GAME. / 6. Each piece is counted for as many points as shown by the figure in which / space it rests. A piece resting on a line counts as One Point. / Illustrated Catalogue mailed on receipt of two cents in stamps. (On the back of the cover)
ON A LINE COUNTS ONE POINT (printed)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Parker Brothers Inc. (Maker)

Dimensions

1 x 15 7/8 x 9 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.2211A-C