Game Information

Advertisement in the Leeds Mercury, Friday 11 December 1914, page 1, column 1

Chad Valley Works (on rules)

(none)

[title ANSWERS
GREAT
WAR
GAME]

COPYRIGHT

CHAS. A.
WALKER

Charles A. Walker (cover artist)

tiddlywinks, war, airplane, horse

white label under box lid

// "ANSWERS" WAR GAME //

9⅞ inches wide — 5⅜ inches high — 1½ inches deep

25.1 cm wide — 13.7 cm high — 3.8 cm deep

The top label has an orangish-tan outer border and background and all letters and illustrations are in black.

A small biplane is shown at upper right.

"ANSWERS" (black with black lower-right drop shadows, reading concave down in letters with squiggly tops and bottoms) appears at top on a white cloud background.

Below, six men are riding horseback to the right across the center. "GREAT" (black outline with orangish-tan interior with a straight baseline) appears over three of the riders and horses.

"WAR GAME" (same style as "GREAT") is bwloe over ground, with two explosions shown at bottom left of center and right of center.

"COPYRIGHT" appears in the orangish-tan outer border at bottom left.

The cover illustrator, "CHAS. A." above "WALKER" (in black) is shown at lower right.

dark red

rules label

dark red, empty

light brown

Copy 1 includes:

6 cardboard pieces, each showing an infantry man on a horse (multicolor)

6 cardboard pieces, each showing 6 helmeted infantry men in a trench behind a wooden barrier next to a stream of water.

3 round, white cardboard pieces representing Red Cross Tents, each showing a red cross and "FORFEIT" over "10" (in black) at center.

8 round cardboard wagon wheels (brown and black), plus 4 wooden axles to connect them and 4 black wooden axles as artillery guns mounted on them.

4 rectangular cardboard pieces, each in gray with "10" (in blue), 2 small black squares, and a small square hole. These are attached over the wagon wheels.

A very small red and white cloth flag on a metal pole on a wooden base.

Bone squidgers (1 1/8" diameter): 1 red, 1 green, 1 dull blue.

(Unknown material) squidgers (1 1/16" diameter): 1 purple

Bone winks (5/8" diameter): 6 red.

"Answers" was a weekly British journal.