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The Game of the Automobile Race
Material Required to Make the Game of Automobile Race: The square cover of a hat-box, two tiny automobiles such as are used as favors (or in place of these two small boxes), six buttons three dark and three light. A small-sized cardboard box for counter, round or square. It must have an indicator-hand cut from a bit of cardboard. This is made to revolve upon a rounded wire paper-shank. If you have no wire paper-shank use a strong pin slightly bent, or a long nail. Tools Needed to Construct the Automobile Race Game: Ruler, crayons. This game is to be a race upon a track. It is to be an automobile race, so, if you can buy at some shop tiny automobiles such as you see in the picture of my game, you will find a quick use for them. Toy shops keep them. Yet, if you cannot find them, put your fingers to work and, with crayons, turn an oblong box into an automobile by marking wheels upon its rims. Make two of these. The game-board is to be drawn upon the top of a hat-box cover. Use your compass to measure off two circles on this, one inside the other. These two circles bound the track. Divide the track into eight or ten sections. Color every other one. Draw a section from which one may start the game. Three lines at the center of one side of your box cover make this. They should join the track as they do in the picture. Next, rule off each corner of your box. Color corners with crayons. Each player must have his own corner of the box. The picture of the game shows how these are used for button-markers. You will need a counter to play this game. You can make one with the half of some square cardboard box. Draw a line from side to side across its top so as to divide the box into four equal squares. Number three of these 1, 2, 3. This counter will need to have a hand that spins. Cut it from heavy cardboard. Color it, if you like. Place an end of this hand you have cut over the center of your box. Press the ends of a wire shank down through it into the box. The wire shank should make a round hole so that it will answer well as pivot for the revolving indicator-hand of your counter. How to play the Automobile Race Game From two to four players may play the game. Each must have three buttons for markers and a toy automobile, or a box to represent this in play. Play is made in turn. Count out for order of play. Place all automobiles in line at the starting place. This is where the three crayon lines join your race-track. The first to play, moves to the left around the track as many spaces as the counter gives him. Next in turn, the other player follows. No player may rest upon the same division of the track as another. If he obtains a count which places his car on a division of the track already occupied, this causes a collision. He must go to the repair shop the center of the game-board. On his next turn, he starts out from the space he left. As soon as any automobile has been around the track once, the player to whom it belongs places one of his marker-buttons upon his corner square. The first to make three successful rounds and place three buttons on his corner wins the game. The race may be timed, "just for fun," using a clock. Each round of the track counts as five miles. All play must be made as rapidly as possible. (If you have some small toy horses, this game-board may be used for a horse race instead of an automobile race, if you like. In this case there is, of course, no "repair-shop" but a horse may go to the center as in the automobile game. The horse is said to be down when another player's horse rests upon the same section of the board. It may start again at its player's next turn. Play rules are the same in both race games.)
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