The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 8

B game of the “Ploneer’s Road,” published in The Sunday Call mag- ezine section of last Sunday, met with such a hearty welcome from young and old, judging from the great number of coupons that have come flocking in to the prize game editor's desk, that we now offer another. The game this week is . Spin the Top.” This game s not only interesting’in it- self, but it will give you a valuable way of counting points for the games that The Sunday Call is to publish in the fu- ture instead of using a dice box or cards. Bo be sure, before anything happens to this page, to take a good, strong plece of beavy cardboard and, after cutting out this game, paste it on the board. You will notice that this game has the ap- pearance of & checker board. In cutting it out be careful not to cut right up to the checks, but leave the margin the width of the frame that surrounds the board, ‘When the game is pasted down securely to a plece of cardboard the right size cut out some little half-inch strips of wood of the proper length to make & frame to go just sround the game and outside of the checks in that margin that you have slready left for this purpose. The ob- Ject of putting this wooden frame around the game is to have something that will &ct &s & fence and keep the top from jumping off the board when you are peady to spin it. Drive small nalls through the cardboard into this wooden frame and then you have a fine game all ready for fun. Nearly every housebold owns a top, but §f you haven't one, get some small boy to whittle out & top for you. Make this top ebout the size and shape of the one shown in the llustration of this page; ene that you can spin between the thumb and first ‘finger. This is the simplest game In the world to play and yet there is any amougt of fun 1o be had out of it. Besides, this geme possesses an educational advantage, for it will teach you to be quick at mul- tiplication and addition. Before you be- gin you must agree how many spins of the top each one shall have, Suppose you decide on twenty spins aplece, Your op- ponent spine first; say, and then you spin; then he spins again, and so on. Each pleyer writes down the number of points he makes on.a spin. This pumber depends upon what square the point of lh.uwralu'h‘n“flnlflyfl-flldown from its spin. You will notice that nine squares In each corner of the game have two num- bers to each sguare, This means that if you are fortunate enough to have the top point into any of these squares you mul- tiply the two numbera of that aquare to- gether and put down the result as the score for that particular spin, ‘When each player has had the number ©of apins previcusly agreed upen, all the scores are added up and the one who hus the highest is pronounced the winner of that game. Now, besides the fun tEat you ean bave from piaying this gume, here is a chahoe for you to win a prize. Invite your friends to spend gn evening with you for the purposs of playing this Stme. As you see, any number can play it Have the best time that you can have @and then the next day sit right down and write’ an account of all that happened— Just ms if you were a soclety reporter for & big dally newspaper—teliing just how the game was pluyed, who was there and all about it. Then mail this descrip- tioz to Prize Game Bditor, The Sunday Call, Ban Francisco, You must go to work immediately on getting up your party and rush this mat- ter right along, because this contest will close on Monday, January 6 18, one ‘week from to-morrow, and any papers that are not in the prize game editor's hands on that day, or before, will be ruled out. The ten boys or girls who write the best descriptions about an evening’s en- tertainment of playing this game may have thelr cholice of any ome of the fol- lowing prizes: — THE PRIZES. BOOKS. “Robinson Crusoe,” “Miss Lou,” “An Original Belle,” “Opening of a Chestnut Burr,” “Bix Little Princesses,” “Treasure Divers,” “Princess end the Goblin,” “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp,” “The House That Jack Built,” “Boy Enight,” “Young Midship- man” and “True to the Old Flag.” GAMES. Captive Princess, Visit of Santa Clavs, Tower of Babel, Red Riding Hood and Man in the Moon. P = Now here is another point to remem- ber that is very important: Cut out the coupon at the bottom of this column and write on it your name and address, very plainly, in either ink or pencil, and also the name of the book or game that you ‘would like for a prize if your name should be one of the fortunate ten. Pin this cou- pon to your composition and mail it at once to the Prize Game Editor, The Sun- dey Call, San Francisco. 4+ —3 SUNDAY CALL PRIZE GAME CONTEST. December 28, 1902. BIRIDG 535505 sivhisnsbos Street or P. 0......cc.vu.ee... State ... If I win I choose for prize: (Bee lst of prizes.) THE SUNDAY CALL. e